India vs England: Crowds throng Chepauk for tickets, ignore social distancing norms

Ignoring all social distancing norms, town’s cricket-loving folks on Thursday thronged the MA Chidamaram Stadium to gather their tickets for the upcoming second Test between India and England, leading to chaos and confusion.
Although all ticket gross sales came about on-line, followers had been required to select their bodily tickets from the stadium.
The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) has allowed a 50 per cent crowd for the second India-England Test, marking entry of spectators for a sporting occasion within the nation after almost a 12 months.
Throughout Thursday, social media was abuzz with stories about lengthy queues exterior the stadium and lack of social distancing by the crowds, however a TNCA official stated issues had been sorted out after preliminary confusion.
“The TNCA had announced that tickets booked online for the second Test could be redeemed from February 11. However, they seem to have misunderstood it and came to the stadium resulting in crowds and confusion,” the TNCA official advised PTI.
The official additionally stated the issuing of tickets could be smoother on Friday.
Chennai: A cricket fan exhibits his tickets (Source: PTI)
“Insane crowd at Chepauk for the retrieval of physical tickets. Friends standing in queue for the last couple of hours & the crowd hasn’t moved an inch,” a Twitter person posted.
Amid the blatant breach of social distancing norms, stories additionally emerged that an individual had fainted after ready within the queue for a very long time.
Sources within the metropolis police stated that there was an enormous crowd, including the scenario was managed nicely by the police personnel posted there.
Several Twitter customers wrote in regards to the confusion and chaos that prevailed across the stadium premises till the authorities introduced issues underneath management.
Chennai: A cricket fan exhibits his tickets after shopping for them on-line by means of redemption to look at the 2nd Test (Source: PTI)
“Had a worst day in my life time, standing more than 6 hours in the que to redemption of my tickets for #INDvsENG test at #chepauk, returned with empty hands along with leg pain and frustration,” a twitter person posted.
Hari Saravanan, an ardent fan of the sport, stated that a lot of folks went to the stadium to redeem tickets.
A lot of folks got here to Chepauk (on Thursday), that’s why there was confusion. Most folks assumed that they might solely redeem the tickets immediately solely however that’s not the case,” he stated.
He stated he could be going to the stadium on Friday to redeem his tickets, including the authorities had introduced that the tickets might redeemed on Saturday, too.