New Delhi: With empty seats due to lack of official clearance for a few stands becoming an eyesore during IPL matches in Chennai, there is a move within the BCCI to shift the eliminator and the final to an alternate venue to ensure a full house.
While most of the other venues have attracted capacity crowd, Chennai has been an aberration with as many as 12,000 seats going empty because clearance from the city planning department for want of building approval is still awaited.
The three stands — G, H and I — each of them with capacity of 4,000 seats, remained unoccupied since the West Indies-India one-dayer in November last year and the subsequent Champions League Twenty20 tournament as well.
Although no BCCI official is willing to speak openly on this issue, there are murmurs of a move to get the marquee matches (eliminator on May 25 and final on May 27) out of Chennai. (PTI)