MULTAN: The attraction of cricket began to attract fans to the stadium as the crowd improved in the second match of HBL PSL 9 in Multan.
Last day Sultans and Islamabad United teams met in Multan Cricket Stadium, Wasim Akram, Elahi Brothers, Javed Miandad, Hanif Muhammad, Zaheer Abbas enclosures were completely full, VIP enclosures Waqar Younis and Inzamam ul Haq also had spectators. There was excitement, Fazal Mehmood and Imran Khan enclosures remained empty due to expensive tickets.
The arrival of the fans started at 3 o’clock, they were brought to the stadium in a shuttle bus from the private housing society, the roads leading to the stadium and the roads of the teams’ routes were closed for general traffic, the roads were opened as soon as the teams reached the stadium. 10,000 personnel were deployed for security at the venue and routes.
CCTV cameras were also monitored, this time also many fans bought fake tickets and reached the stadium, but they were not allowed to enter the stadium because they were not scanned. During the warm-up before the match, the fans saw Iftikhar Ahmed and chanted Chacha, Chacha, to which he waved the bat in the air to thank him.
During the match, the flood light of a pool was switched off, due to which the game was stopped for 10 minutes. Turned on and the match started.
