Virat Kohli fans are very unhappy about the fact that BCCI has now allowed the crowd for the former Indian captain’s 100th test match which is going to be played against Sri Lanka in Mohali from the 4th of March. The COVID situation in Mohali is under control and with all the other venues allowed to have crowd, the fans couldn’t understand why BCCI doesn’t want the fans to fill the stadium in Mohali for Kohli’s 100th game.
A senior journalist, GS Vivek, however, raised a question yesterday saying that Mohali is one of those venues which don’t attract a lot of crowd for the test matches anyway. Even when Sachin Tendulkar played test cricket here back in the day, there wasn’t too much interest from the crowd to attend the game from the stadium.
Virat Kohli fans want to witness Kohli’s special landmark live from the stadium
The stadium in Mohali is generally filled for the white ball games and the IPL games that take place here, but conventionally for test cricket, people haven’t turned up in huge numbers over the years. The journalist GS Vivek, while raising this point, asked the Virat Kohli fans if they think Kohli is a bigger crowd puller than Sachin.
What GS Vivek wanted to convey through his tweet was that there wasn’t going to be huge attendance for Kohli’s 100th test match in the Mohali stadium, even if BCCI had allowed the spectators. However, the point raised by Virat Kohli fans was quite valid as well, because it’s a special landmark for Kohli and the fans want to witness it live from the stadium.
Been seeing a lot of #AllowCrowdinMohali tweets for the sake of #ViratKohli #100th Test. Traditionally Test cricket in Mohali has always seen weakest crowds. #SachinTendulkar was left embarassed during his world record. So is #Virat bigger crowd puller than sachin? #Cricket
— G. S. Vivek (@GSV1980) February 28, 2022
As things stand right now, it doesn’t seem as if BCCI has any last minute plans to reverse their directive and allow crowd for Kohli’s 100th test, particularly in a state which is going through assembly elections at the moment and the state police is working under the Election Commission.
