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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.
ICC released numbers are 47-50k attendance for today's match. In 95% of cricket stadiums it's considered a packed house and successful marketing but in this case, it isn't because of the sheer size of the stadium, here ICC and BCCI deserve the blame. They should have organized this fixture on smaller ground. I also don't understand why they didn't opt for India vs X team for an opening game.
Hyderabad ground capacity is not much so even a 20k crowd will look alright for non India match.