No Ticket Buyers For Final India-england Kolkata Odi

[Jambhalheart]

With the series already decided and subsequent lack of interest among fans, ticket sales for the fifth and final One-dayer in Kolkata [ Images ] have been poor.

The fact that Indians are in with a chance of wrapping up the series 5-0 has failed to pull spectators to the Eden gardens as there has been no rush at all at the counters, while the figures provided by the hosts Cricket Association of Bengal have been very impressive.

Till Sunday's count only 5,000-odd tickets were sold for the last dead rubber of the series and the state association estimates a crowd of about 40,000 maximum for the 64,000 capacity stadiuim.

Ranji winning Bengal captain Sambaran Banerjee blamed it on the overkill of cricket.

Indirectly blaming the Board for the poor planning of the series, Banerjee said: "There was no need of this series."

With India [ Images ] and England [ Images ] playing each other since July -- from the first Test in Lord's -- Banerjee said it's been too much of cricket.

[b]"There is no excitement left in the India and England series. Both the countries are playing non stop cricket for four months. Only a month back there was a One-day series against the same team. How much crowd do you expect?" he asked.[/b]

Banerjee said also the timing of the match was not correct.

"The match has come right after Bengali's biggest festival -- Durga Puja. With Kali [ Images ] Puja (Diwali [ Images ]) next, people are hard on budget and time as well. But we hope to get a near packed house for the only Twenty20 [ Images ] on October 29 (Saturday)," he said.

But for a cricket-mad venue like Eden Gardens, that has in the past hosted some memorable matches with more than one-lakh crowd, it's really surprsing that it would not draw a packed house on Tuesday.

CAB treasurer Subir Ganguly estimated a crowd of about 40,000 for the One-dayer.


CAB treasurer Subir Ganguly estimated a crowd of about 40,000 for the One-dayer.

"The ODI will not be a packed house. We may witness crowds between 35 to 40,000. But the ticket sales for the Twenty20 have been quite impressive. It will be a packed house that day," the treasurer said.

Incidentally, the Eden will host India for the first time after the memorable win against the Lankas in 2009 Christmas eve.

The refurbished Eden Gardens could not host the scheduled India-England World Cup fixture after being ruled out because of unpreparedness for the World Cup. The grand stadium, however, hosted other teams in the World Cup

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[katharnak]

monna mumbai match kuda full kaale

[kingmakers]

[quote name='katharnak' timestamp='1319470960' post='3025551']
monna mumbai match kuda full kaale
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yup....
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[dkchinnari]

tpp much of anything is nt gud[img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]

[Vikkas]

assalu first 4 matches lo okka match ayina full ayinda. [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img][img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]

agree it or not, India lo match soodadaniki stadium ki velle valla kante sachin ni soodadaniki velley vallu ekkuva.
with out sachin, stadiums [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]

[chillin.maddy]

i am going for t20 booked tickets for saturday my first match in eden gardens(as a viewer)

[Aavakaaya Biryaani]

cricket oo cricket ani gap lekunda pettaru.. ippudu chiraku dobbinchaaru.... evadu chustadu inka ilaa gap ivvakunda IPL, ICL, tournaments ante....... andaru cheppeyaru

[Gachibowli_Diwakar]

manchi pani aindhi .. asalu india lo cricket match .. adhi kuda ODI ki crowd raakapovatam ante its a disgust to BCCI

all credit must go to IPL and ICL .. too much unwanted and useless cricket

[kakatiya]

t20 took over all other formats.. crowd willing not to spend 6 hours under sun .... loud noise....

they want 2 and half hour thriller just like foot ball matches..... so ODI and TEST CRICKET is for TV vieweing only ....

[katharnak]

[quote name='Vikkas' timestamp='1319471373' post='3025579']
assalu first 4 matches lo okka match ayina full ayinda. [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]

agree it or not, India lo match soodadaniki stadium ki velle valla kante sachin ni soodadaniki velley vallu ekkuva.
with out sachin, stadiums [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]
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comedy [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]

[Vikkas]

[quote name='katharnak' timestamp='1319478137' post='3026129']

comedy [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/dh7gv5.gif[/img]
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[nenu.unanu]

no sachin,sehwag,yuvi,zaheer

NO SACHIN NO FULLS ....SIMPLE

[Vikkas]

[quote name='nenu.unanu' timestamp='1319478721' post='3026206']
no sachin,sehwag,yuvi,zaheer

NO SACHIN NO FULLS ....SIMPLE
[/quote]

adhi oppukoru vayya