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Tussle for tickets leads to venue shift

The second ODI will be played in Vizag

After days of speculation, the venue of the second ODI between India and West Indies was officially shifted from Indore to Visakhapatnam after an issue between the MPCA and BCCI regarding the distribution of complimentary passes.

"The second Paytm ODI to be played between India and Windies will now be held at Visakhapatnam's Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium," the BCCI said in a media statement.

A new rule states that each section of the hosting stadium will have 90% of the tickets available for sale, leaving only 10% for complimentary distribution. This leaves the stadium with 720 seats in the pavilion stand, but the BCCI's demand has been for more than 1200.

"We clarify once again that our intent was always to organise the match and we were forced to land in a situation where the time left henceforth for the match would have resulted in several circumstantial difficulties for which the host Association would have been unfairly held responsible," a statement from the MPCA read, according to ESPNCricinfo.