 |  So far I'm reasonably pleased with how it's going Malcolm Speed |
Attendances have been poor for many games in the Caribbean, where the cheapest Super 8 seats cost US$75.
"This is a world sporting event between major teams. Those prices were fixed by the local organising committees.
"Our only input was to say we'd like more tickets at the bottom end of the range and they've generally complied with that," he told Test Match Special.
"There are a lot of $25 [ground admission] tickets available and for a major world sporting event, that's the pricing that goes with this sort of thing."
Local organisers have made a number of concessions to try and boost crowd numbers.
Fans will now be able to take musical instruments to the grounds without requiring written permission in advance and a no re-entry policy has been scrapped.
"I've been to some matches in Guyana and Jamaica and St Kitts and St Lucia where there have been bigger crowds and I think the atmosphere has been there.
"As we move through the tournament, I hope there will be more of the Caribbean flavour," said Speed.
More concessions are expected when the teams move on to Grenada and Barbados for the second stage of the Super 8s.
"The local organising committee takes the revenue from the gates so they need to make decisions about discounted tickets or free tickets for schoolchildren, those sort of things.
"But over the last week or so there has been a lot of effort gone into that and I think we'll see a change at those two venues in particular," Speed continued.
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