Spirited cricket followers have been left deeply disillusioned after fog engulfed the fourth T20 match between India and South Africa on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Following the delayed and eventual cancellation of the match at 9:30 PM, followers flooded X with reactions, making Lucknow pattern. Memes saturated social media, with many customers lashing out on the authorities for the extended delay earlier than the call-off. Dejected followers additionally questioned the logic of scheduling an evening match within the metropolis throughout peak winter.
District-level cricketer Garvit Sanghi drove from Balia particularly for the match. “Waah kya batt jo kahi nahi hota woh yaha UP mein and hamrae Lucknow mein hota hain,” he mentioned.
Businessman Yogesh Rastogi arrived with seven relations and mates. “We reached the stadium at 6:15 PM after braving the visitors. The match being known as off after 5 inspections at 9:30 PM left us extremely disillusioned. We had compromised different plans for this. A refund will not be the problem; we needed to see the gamers in motion, even when only for 5 overs,” he expressed.
Entrepreneur Chinmay Dev shared comparable views. “To begin with, itni mushkil se passes mile, then parking on the stadium on necessary match days is a process. Additionally, lots of my mates paid a bomb to get good seats. We needed to skip work to be right here on time, in any other case you get caught within the parking jam. After a lot effort, in the event you get to listen to ‘match is cancelled,’ we have now each proper to react. Refund? What refund? That is no resolution,” he acknowledged.
For skilled Kaushik Kumar, the frustration was even higher. “I cancelled plans with my household and an official assembly to be right here. I used to be ready to see some actually good cricket because the yr ended, but it surely was all in useless. I nonetheless can not perceive what took the cricket board so lengthy to know the climate of Lucknow.”