*Official* Opening Match- England v New Zealand- October 5th, Ahmedabad

[Tom Flint]

I was being generous

There’s hardly anyone there

I reckon there's 10000 there atm

 

[Athlai]

All these action perverts in here.

 

[Starfighter]

Really? 20% is 20000 which would be really good for a cricket wc game not featuring the host nation in a country there aren't that many expats living in

It's a world cup. It's the kind of event people will take holidays for. The ground being only 5% full is down to incompetence and corruption, nothing else.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

God I hope its a NZ vs Eng final with 5000 screaming fans

I hope it's only Sonny Shaw.

 

[OverratedSanity]

God I hope its a NZ vs Eng final with 5000 screaming fans

Why wouldn't you want people turning up to watch a final your team is playing you weirdo

 

[Bahnz]

I was being generous

There’s hardly anyone there

Yeah, nowhere near 20%. Somewhere between 5 and 10K (and closer to the former than the later).

 

[Athlai]

Why wouldn't you want people turning up to watch a final your team is playing you weirdo

We're naturally shy

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

NZC YouTube highlights guy extremely worried because the noise algorithm keeps saying there's no cricket game being played.

 

[thierry henry]

Henry pretty unlucky to have not nicked more than 1 off and to even be going at the 4RPO he is

 

[Athlai]

This speed gun might actually be accurate

 

[CricAddict]

It's a world cup. It's the kind of event people will take holidays for. The ground being only 5% full is down to incompetence and corruption, nothing else.

Yes. Word going around is there has been a big scam in online ticket selling resulting in this.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

I hope it's only Sonny Shaw.

Haven't seen him for ages. I wonder what happened to him, but I'm too scared to google it.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's a world cup. It's the kind of event people will take holidays for. The ground being only 5% full is down to incompetence and corruption, nothing else.

It doesn't fully explain the poor crowd here because there's multiple factors at play but the way tickets were sold online this time was close to a scam. I was going to attend a couple of the Mumbai games. Gave up because of how big a mess it was in terms of both availability and pricing.

Also as has been mentioned before, the schedule for 2-3 games wasn't finalized until the last week of September which couldn't have been great for any fans from other countries who were planning on coming down here.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Wow NZ have stacked their batting, huh. Have they finally realised Mitchell can bowl?

 

[Molehill]

Be interested to see if the pitch changes under lights, starting to look harder to bat on now. Won't be easy getting to 300.

 

[ataraxia]

Well haha yeah keep bowling these 3 because we've still got Sodhi left to bowl haha

 

[thierry henry]

Why is Knight saying Lathe ‘im instead of Lay Thim

 

[Athlai]

Neesham 5fer incoming

 

[Starfighter]

Why is Knight saying Lathe ‘im instead of Lay Thim

Because he's a moron?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Haven't seen him for ages. I wonder what happened to him, but I'm too scared to google it.

Probably just not allowed to enter a multitude of countries.