Cricket World Cup: Coming up in Oct-Nov, India versus Pak at Ahmedabad’s Modi Arena

The Narendra Modi Arena in Ahmedabad has arisen as the leader to have the high-profile India versus Pakistan match in the ICC 50-over World Cup booked for October-November, the main match between the two most despised rivals on Indian soil starting around 2016.

The Leading group of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has chosen to have the high-voltage match at the Ahmedabad arena fully expecting an enormous number of fans who are supposed to head out to India from abroad for the installation, it is learnt. With a seating limit of 1 lakh, the Narendra Modi Arena is the nation’s biggest.

The BCCI will report the World Cup plan at a terrific send off once the Indian Chief Association, in progress, is finished, it is learnt.

On the off chance that everything goes according to plan, the 50-over World Cup will start off from October 5, with Nagpur, Bengaluru, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Rajkot, Indore, Bengaluru and Dharamshala being short-recorded as scenes, in any event, for training apparatuses.

Of these scenes, notwithstanding, just seven will have India’s association matches. Ahmedabad could be the main setting where India play two matches, gave the group comes to the last.

It is discovered that Pakistan could wind up playing a large portion of their matches in Chennai and Bengaluru because of safety reasons. Kolkata’s Eden Nurseries is likewise being considered as a scene. Essentially, Bangladesh could likewise play the greater part of their matches in Kolkata and Guwahati as it would diminish the movement distance for fans from the adjoining country.

With October-November being the rainstorm season, the BCCI is wanting to wrap up the matches in the country’s southern parts before the primary seven day stretch of November.

The Indian Express has discovered that the BCCI additionally talked with the Indian group the executives and looked for its inclinations for the matches, aside from the one with Pakistan.

The Indian group, sources said, mentioned the BCCI to distribute installations against Australia, Britain, New Zealannd and South Africa to settings that help spinners. It let the board know that it favors slow pitches as it needs to boost the purported home benefit, a pattern it has been following throughout recent years.

“The Indian group has performed well on sluggish tracks in the beyond couple of years at home. So the group the board had mentioned that at whatever point the timetable is being arranged the Indian group ought to confront top groups on sluggish pitches. They needed to enjoy a home benefit,” a source in the BCCI said.

Sources said the state units have previously given their list of things to get to the BCCI, however an approach designation of the matches to settings would be taken exclusively by the BCCI. However, they added there’s areas of strength for an of Chennai’s Mama Chidambaram Arena facilitating India’s match against Australia, while games against New Zealand, Britain, South Africa will be played in different focuses where pitches will be slow.

The BCCI has reserved more than Rs 500 crore to redesign arenas the nation over before the 50-over World Cup. BCCI secretary Jay Shah had before expressed that the board will update its framework, with clean latrines, simple access and clean seats the first concerns after ongoing analysis over the state of arenas.

“All current foundation in the nation will be overhauled before the World Cup. Evaluation of the arena has been finished to draw in with a more extensive companion of fans in the IPL and during the World Cup. So overhauling framework will be finished during this period,” Shah said.