Only 7435 tickets have been sold for the first three days of the 2nd Test match starting from today, June 28, 2011 between the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 – Cricket News Update
The second Test match between the Caribbean contenders and the World champions is due to commence today on June 28, 2011, Tuesday, at 1000 local time. Tickets for first three days of the Test have sold cold, reaching a paltry number of 7435.
The 2nd Test match will stretch from June 28 till July 2, 2011 which is also an opportunity for the visiting Indian team to set History at the famous Kensington Oval Ground, Barbados.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup, 2011 champions have never won two Test matches in a row here in Caribbean and out of 8 matches played in Bridgetown, Indians lost 7. So to change the unpleasant history, the youth packed team will contend hard.
So far in this tour to West Indies, the sub-continental lads have been triumphant. They thrashed the hosts in T20 and ODI series with 3-2 lead.
Indian Test squad underwent major reshuffling with 9 experienced players who were not part of the ODI team. The Indian cricket team faced the WI players in first Test of the 5 match Test series on Monday, June 20 and defeated the opponents with 63 runs.
The consistently poor West Indian performance has left the cricket fans in dismay, shrinking the numbers of spectators in the grounds to witness the match. This crunch has also hit the finances as the grounds are unable to have sufficient turnover.
A similar situation came about before the 2nd Test match of the tri-match series. 2506, 2486 and 2443 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cameron-James-Borgas-c49157 have been sold hitherto for the 1st, 2nd and the 3rd days respectively, reported by the local newspaper of Barbados.
This commutes to a total number of 7435 tickets given away till now, whereas the ground can accommodate up to 28,000 spectators.
Roxanne Forte, Senior cricket operations officer of the Barbados Cricket Association confirmed the discouraging sales of tickets.
This is alarming for the organizers and increases the strain on the already crumbled finances of WICB.
The West Indian cricket team is responsible for this lack of interest shown by the cricket lovers as they are not entertained by their national Heroes.
One of the major reasons to this may be the absence of many experienced players in the West Indian line up.
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