India vs Windies | TNCA to host the T20I match only on state association terms

“We will be replying (writing) to the BCCI tomorrow, stating that we will be conducting the match if we are allowed to use (distribute) the complimentary tickets like how we used to do it earlier. So we are not acceptable to 10 per cent. Like how we used to give the complimentary tickets earlier, only on the similar lines we are prepared to conduct. Otherwise, we are not going to conduct it,” TNCA secretary R Palani told this paper.

“The TNCA is jointly in charge of the ground (Chepauk) with the Madras Cricket Club. We have to give them about 1,400 tickets on a preferential basis. Similarly, on a preferential basis we have to give about 4,500 tickets to our club members. And apart from this, we have to give complimentary tickets to our life members, the government people and agencies… So 10 per cent won’t be enough. Ours is a very, very old association. We have been conducting matches over the years and we have a system of giving complimentary tickets, and tickets at concessional rates. We are answerable to our members. So we will only go as per how we have been handling international matches all these years,” Vinod Rai told The Indian Express 

“The SCA is going by its usual practice. When there’s just 10-15 per cent tickets sold, does the association not give tickets to cricket-loving people — budding cricketers, members of the women’s cricket teams, school children? Why not? Is there any restriction on that? When tickets are available, it becomes the SCA’s prerogative,” the SCA patriarch Niranjan Shah told this paper.