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Cricket Match at Feroz Shah Kotla - World Cup 2011

You may find it a little strange, but I went for a cricket match to our very own Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi between West Indies and Netherlands! The motive was to enjoy a day of cricket and the fact that it wasn't an India Match, at least we were sure of the fact that we will get to relax on our seats - which is exactly what happened! With not much crowd in the stadium, we relished ourselves there and enjoyed every bit of it. It was a relaxing experience!
 However, this nice experience also came at a prices (remember the saying, "there are no free lunches in life"). We were travelling from just about 10 KMs to the stadium and it took us almost 3 hours to get to the seats - by then West Indies had already played their 20 overs! Let me express my extreme displeasure about the worst possible arrangements that could have been made for "Janta" to come and watch the match!

First it was the traffic (please prefix "terrible" here) that made us almost loose our calm! Some accident at India Gate and the traffic had tails stretching up to Shahjahan Road!People were selling tickets openly and no one bothered to check that. If that was not enough, the Policemen, Guards and Traffic Police were more than lousy and were not even willing to help anyone!

 We had to wait for 1.5 hours here and there to get in the stadium and there wasnt a que for the entry! Overall, tragic to see Delhi still not up to the mark after the CWG 2010 debacle and its about time that either the Government does something about it or people do something about the Government - Though I have my doubts about any other Government's capabilities, we can always hope for the best for "APNI DILLI"



Cheers
Sumit


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