In the build-up to the World Cup’s return to Pune after 27 years, the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) had claimed to have done its best to make it convenient for spectators. However, the first of the five matches — and undoubtedly the most high-profile the city is to host in this edition — to be hosted here ended with the same old problems cropping up again.
With almost a five kilometre-long stretch, while approaching the MCA stadium, being a single-lane service road off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, traffic snarls are as common as high scores at the venue. Multiple spectators believed the traffic management was worse than what they had witnessed in the Indian Premier League.
