Just before the ODI World Cup 2023, images purporting to show soiled seats within the Rajeev Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad went viral. He has since offered an explanation for his posts. He claimed that the Western Terrace stand’s seats remain filthy, although the remainder of the venue has been renovated. Three ODI World Cup matches are set to be held at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal, Hyderabad.
On Tuesday, October 3, a member of the social networking platform X posted several images of filthy seats with the allegation that they were taken from one of the audience at Uppal Stadium.
Users questioned the veracity of his post, so he submitted another photo showing his ticket from the warm-up game between Australia and Pakistan to show that he was indeed there. As additional evidence of validity, the X user uploaded a video taken at the stadium.
Fans criticised the Indian Cricket Board when videos and pictures of the stadium’s seats in Hyderabad quickly went popular on social media. The X user afterwards uploaded a few additional posts and made it clear that just one of these stands was defective.
User clarifies mistake about seats at stadium
Additionally, he clarified that his initial post on the subject was a reference to a photo he had published in May on the state of the seats inside the Western Terrace stands.
He wrote on twitter clarifying his mistake as he said, “My tweets on bad condition of seats in some stands of the Uppal Stadium have gone viral. Some people outside the country r trying to take advantage. I wud like to clarify that the stadium has been renovated with brand new seats & only Western Terrace stands old seats are bad.”
He added, “HCA, it seems, didn’t have enough time to replace all the chairs before the World Cup. Bt they shud hv got the old chairs cleaned up before the match. The rest of the facilities in the stadium are excellent and no one should have any doubts about hosting capacities of India.”
Fans react as pictures of dirty seats at Rajeev Gandhi International stadium go viral ahead of ODI World Cup 2023:
Nothing much has changed in Uppal stadium. Only some window dressing and spectator comfort still not taken care of in full.#worldcup2023 pic.twitter.com/RiPyeRsfEn
— C.VENKATESH (@C4CRICVENKATESH) October 3, 2023
Nothing is going to happen unless people protest or boycott by “not” seeing matches effectively lowering the ads revenue. And yes, people need to stop making cricketers gods.
— antiproton (@antiproton) October 3, 2023
Poor Maintenance #Hyderabad #WorldCup2023
— Global Xchanger (@GXchanger) October 3, 2023
Its normal to have 10-15 not so good seats in every stadium do not make an issue.
The entire stadium looks beautiful and ready for WC.— Arjun4u (@Arjun4u1) October 3, 2023
BCCI is a money making machine .Who care abt People ?Thats why indian dont live in india and move abroad …
— MK (@manimajra1985) October 3, 2023
Sir, I think you raised this concern some time back, not sure tweet or video.
But corrective action, ha ha ha— Raghu (@Raghu_Rugz) October 3, 2023
BCCI decision not to give a single India match to Hyderabad is justified now sir
— Blast Mohan?? (@DelhiSoori) October 3, 2023
Pathetic! This was expected though as they just replaced ground floor chairs…stating lack of time even though they had enough time.
— badrinath kannan (@badri121284) October 3, 2023
Hyderabad has to the worst state association out of all top cricket state boards in India.
— Aditya Saha (@Adityakrsaha) October 3, 2023
I blame the rains. Had it rained the night preceding the game, all this poop would have been washed off, but rains betrayed HCA. How unfair!!?
— Nick (@Nickkulk) October 4, 2023
