MUMBAI: The BCCI has reportedly decided to allow 20,000 spectators, mostly ticket holding members of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), to watch the third and final T20I between India and West Indies on October 20.
“As discussed with other office bearers, as per your request, you can open up for the last T20 match against West Indies at Eden,” PTI quotes BCCI president Sourav Ganguly as having written in an e-mail to CAB chief Avishek Dalmiya.
With this only the complimentary tickets will be issued by CAB to its members and affiliated units.
“This consent of the Board would help CAB meet its obligations to Life Associate, Annual and honorary members for the 20th February match,” Dalmiya said.
In an earlier interview to PTI, Ganguly had said that the BCCI would not allow spectators as they did not want any health risk for the players.
For the first two T20Is on Wednesday and Friday, around 2,000 plus fans have been allowed in the corporate boxes and the upper tier of Dr BC Roy Club House, PTI further reports.
The match passes for first two games are exclusively for sponsors’ representatives.
The preceding three-match ODI series in Ahmedabad was closed off for spectators.
As of now, India’s next series against Sri Lanka, beginning in Lucknow with the first T20I on February 24, will not allow spectators.
