After the fresh guidelines from the home ministry regarding the 50% crowd attendance at sporting venues, the BCCI and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association would allow crowd at the Chepauk Stadium for the second Test against England.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no time to allow entry of spectators for the first Test starting on February 5 as we only received the government notification on Saturday. You can\u2019t organise entry of spectators at such a short notice,\u201d a senior TNCA official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.<\/p>\n
But after the latest guidelines, 50% crowd will be allowed for the second Test. The first one will be played at the empty stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yes, now with fresh guidelines, there is every possibility that second Test starting from February 14 might have spectators as per notification,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Earlier it was decided that the first two Tests in Chennai would be behind the closed door and crowd would be allowed for the last two Tests at Motera, Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was always clear that spectators will be allowed at Motera. But now that we have received the guidelines, the planning for the second Test can be reworked,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the fresh guidelines from the home ministry regarding the 50% crowd attendance at sporting venues, the BCCI and Tamil\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-chennai"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}