Health emergency? 25,000 flock to watch T20I at Kotla

By evening, however, visibility improved. At 6pm, an hour before the match, AQI levels dropped to contact 280 mark.
Delhi used to be shrouded beneath a thick blanket of smog on Sunday morning as the Air Quality Index in countless components of the countrywide capital breached the ‘extremely hazardous’ level of 900. There were showers in the morning, however it did little to enhance the common air quality. If anything, it solely increased the humidity tiers further. Despite assurances from the BCCI, there was once apprehensions over whether or not India-Bangladesh T20 suit would take vicinity at the Feroz Shah Kotla. A public fitness emergency was once declared and on the match-eve, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation and the Delhi District Cricket Association even made arrangements to combat air pollution by way of using water sprinklers backyard Kotla’s premises.
Their nice efforts hardly delivered any relief. Former cricketers Bishan Singh Bedi and Gautam Gambhir puzzled the cause at the back of staging a wearing event in a city that was reeling beneath the grip of such an acute air pollution crisis.
By evening, however, visibility increased slightly. At 6pm, an hour earlier than the match, AQI tiers dropped extensively to contact 280 mark, which used to be unhealthy no doubt, however nonetheless better than what it the city had been experiencing in the morning. Over 25,000 fans, reducing throughout age-groups, assembled to get a glimpse of their cricketers in action.
By the time, Shafiul Islam used to be geared up to bowl the opening over to India’s captain Rohit Sharma, stands were crammed to the brim. Delhi’s Air Emergency now looked like a conspiracy theory.