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sydney cricket groundapart from seeing oz getting the taste of defeat match after match what else pleases me is the oz fans turn out at ground...even now when they are losing badly and have already lost the series...the last count was around 35000 spectators today!
this is just simply amazing...that too for a dead rubber match...
cut to india...and in not so recent past certain sachin tendulkar had to wave his bat to embarrassingly empty stands after crossing highest runs in test cricket...
when that was the last appearance of another bright son of india, ganguly, at that ground...who was playing magnificently...
...and when india was winning...
it sucks mann...it really sucks...
more so when they say cricket is like religion here...
though the reality is that its one day cricket which is religion in india....everything else just pales...be it the mother of series india-pak, the father of series india-oz...and even the prospect of india beating oz hands down is not enough for us to rush to stadiums...
did somebody say domestic cricket?
now what's that...you must be joking...nah dreaming...nah...whatever...
it's not that we don't follow test matches...we do...but at the same time we are somehow allergic to the thought of going to stadium for test matches...
before you jump on me sighting reasons like stadium apathy...bcci's complete negligence towards average cricket fan...etc etc...
you must have missed the test match at chennai between india and england...not only the match was great...but so was the atmosphere despite almost same (non)facilities prevailing over there...
no wonder cricket god upstairs blesses them with one great match after another...
that tie match...that india-pak match when tendulkar almost single handily won the match for us...who can forget the standing ovation pakistan received after winning that match...
...and now this biggest run chase on indian soil...to give you few examples...
we know correcting things like better facilities in and out of stadiums...more awareness towards common cricket fan's problems...ticketing issue etc will take some time to resolve...if bcci is willing that is...
so why not start with simpler solution?
some ground or places have cricket cultures...some have not...as simple as that...
like chennai...like mumbai...like kolkotta...or to some lesser extent bangalore or delhi...
why not make them permanent fixtures for every test series...?
if its a three match series than let it always be at chennai...mumbai....kolkotta...
and if its more than three match series then they can arrange rest match(es) on rotation policy to other places to see if there is an improvement in turn out in those stadiums?
or let them have rotation policy for stadiums only for odi series...to appease local cricket associations and their so called voting powers...
what do you think...? tell me...
