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Tussle between MPCA, BCCI could have Indore ODI moved

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The cricket crazy people of Indore last witnessed a game in December 2017 © Getty

A tussle over complimentary tickets' distribution between the BCCI and the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) could lead to the shifting of the second One-Day International between India and Windies from Indore.

As per the new BCCI constitution, 90 per cent of the tickets of the total stadium capacity should be for public sale, leaving just 10 per cent of complimentary tickets with the state board, which in this case is 2700 tickets, given the stadium's capacity of 27000. But the BCCI's requirement for "various sections of BCCI stakeholders like sponsors, teams, BCCI members, BCCI sub-committee etc." in the hospitality pavilion section, has caused the issue.

"The managing committee of MPCA has decided that it is not possible to organise the second ODI between India and West Indies in Indore if BCCI doesn't back down from it's demand of complimentary tickets. We have intimated BCCI," MPCA joint secretary Milind Kanmadikar told PTI on Sunday (September 30). "We cannot accept BCCI's demand for hospitality tickets. We have only 7000 seats in the pavilion (hospitality) gallery and going by 10 percent, we would be left with only 700 seats. Now if we give five percent of that, we are left with only 350 hospitality tickets," Kanmadikar said.

"Even we have to cater demands of our members, various government agencies. We also have only 10 percent complimentaries in our state unit's constitution but from that we can give the amount (five percent from each gallery) BCCI wants," he said.

"In the end, we clarify once again that our intent was always to organise the match and we were forced to land in a situation where the time left henceforth for the match would have resulted in several circumstantial difficulties for which the host Association would have been unfairly held responsible," the MPCA's statement said. "Such big risk is not worth in view of the inordinate delay on part of BCCI on extending clarification and fair decision making.

"The unilateral, arbitrary, mysterious and leisurely decision making and working of BCCI has caused such huge loss to Association and the local cricket fans of our State," he added.

The game is scheduled to be played on October 24.

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