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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 13483854" data-attributes="member: 92282">World Twenty20 hosts Sri Lanka are to beef up security after angry fans  clashed with baton wielding police in Hambantota where the home side  lost a match to South Africa, officials said on Sunday.Local  residents in the southern port town stormed the ground after they were  told that tickets for Saturday's match at the 35,000-capacity Mahinda  Rajapakse International Stadium had been sold out, a security official  told AFP."The crowds got very boisterous and they smashed the  barricades and forcibly entered the grounds," the official said, asking  not to be named. "The baton charge did not deter them. A few thousand  got in."Heavy rains shortened the group C game to seven-overs-a-side, which South Africa won by by 32 runs.Witnesses  said local fans pelted stones at vehicles leaving the match venue after  Sri Lanka lost the match. A heavy presence of the elite Special Task  Forces commandos could not deter the angry crowds."Their anger  was because they could not enter the grounds," another official said.  "When they broke down the barricades and came in they started shouting  and making a big rumpus."Camillus Abeygunawardena, the top  security officer for the tournament, said there were unruly scenes  outside the stadium, but insisted that players and spectators inside the  stadium were well protected."The problem was that locals  residents wanted to get in, but they did not have ticket,"  Abeygunawardena said. "That is when trouble started."With  Hambantota not due to host any more matches, he said security would be  stepped up for the rest of the tournament in Pallekele and Colombo, but  was confident there will be no repeat of Saturday's incident.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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