Quote from: lixer on October 05, 2023, 04:44:50 PM

Quote from: JSRAW on October 05, 2023, 01:55:38 PM

Quote from: elevates on October 05, 2023, 01:40:35 PM

The seating arrangement is more than 130k which is why the stadium seems empty. I am watching the match on Hotstar and I can see 44L showing up now. People are crazy about T20 cricket only a few like you and I are the ones who watch ODI. Watching the way England spinners are getting whacked for 4 and 6, I do not agree with your analysis. It is all about captaincy and discipline when it comes to bowling. Might as well say, what a fantastic debut by Ravindra.

Yeah, that's why i said "Obvious reasons". Also, i heard that for this particular opening match. BCCI gave 20k free tickets to women and kids and still, it's not even half full. Tells you a lot about the current situation of cricket. It's an ICC tournament so every board has the responsibility to create hype in their respective countries so that fans can travel and support their teams. We can obviously make a list of why the opening match looking dull.

True, it does look like it. Surely smooth sailing for Kiwis against English spinners.

This was one of the worst start of this world cup because I have feeling mostly understand there is no India involved in this match so having this here is no good deal because even we have 30K fans but still this was looking empty which create big negative impact on this mega event around the globe.

BCCI and ICC needs to understand ground realities and having a match like this in a small ground could also work for them, and surely we have good atmosphere, but they have done poor things which are surely going to have negative impact.

Now tomorrow we are going to have same situation again while Pakistan will play against the Netherlands which is going to be another dull encounter between these two sides even now I have feeling mostly matches without India surely going to have same problem.

I just saw the statistics and the last time before this world cup when the host nation did not play the first match of the ODI world cup was in the 1996 ODI World cup and coincidentally that happened in the Indian sub-continent as well. After that all the world cups have their first matches with the host nations:

1999, England : Eng vs SL
2003, SA : SA vs WI
2007, WI : WI vs Pakistan
2011, Ban : Ind vs Ban
2015, Aus-NZ : NZ vs SL
2019, Eng : Eng vs SA