The ICC Cricket World Cup has begun in India, with the first match featuring defending champions England and New Zealand. The opening match of the World Cup was played on Thursday at the ‘Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium,’ the largest stadium in the world, located in Ahmedabad.
This stadium can accommodate a whopping 132,000 spectators at once. However, cricket enthusiasts were met with disappointment as there were no spectators in the stadium during the first match.
When the captains of both teams came to the ground for the toss, at that time, the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad was completely empty. Even after the match started, only a limited number of spectators were visible in the stadium.
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In the same vein, interesting comments from cricket fans have been seen on social media website Twitter. Mufaddal Wohra expressed in his tweet, “There is a lot of hope that the stadium will be filled with spectators by the evening. The first match of the World Cup deserved to have more people in the stands.”
Journalist Tim Wigmore, sharing a picture of the Ahmedabad Stadium, writes, “The Icc Cricket World Cup has begun. It’s sad to see empty seats.” Rashmi commented on this, saying, “Empty stadium! Even if India were playing the first match, it would still make sense, but why is this match happening in Ahmedabad?”
Imran Sadiq humorously shared a video of the empty stadium, writing, “In the first match of the World Cup, there are more players on the ground than there are spectators in the stadium.”
For this match, the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), announced the invitation of 40,000 women to watch the match in the stadium. However, when the stadium remained empty, Syed Arfan Ahmed questioned, “Have those women been discouraged from coming to the stadium?”
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