The Central Broward Regional Park will hold a total of 10,000 fans this weekend for the two T20 games that involve the West Indies and India.
Operations manager of the BCCI, Dr MV Sridhar said that his organisation is deliberately keeping the numbers down to 10,000 despite calls from many fans for tickets to attend the big clash. He said: "We have decided to hold back 2,000 tickets because we want people to sit comfortably on the bleachers as their comfort is important."
When the West Indies played India here in 2012, the organisers packed the venue to 20,000 capacity. There were no bleachers and the grass mound was used for patrons to sit, so they could have facilitated many more fans.
Meanwhile, the cricket hype currently being created in the US because of these two matches on the weekend, is bound to benefit the domestic US Open T20 cricket tournament, which will be hosted November 24 to 27 at the Central Broward Regional Park.
For those missing out, and seeing that the cricket bug has bitten many fans in the US, the next big cricket tournament here will be the US Open, which will see a number of cricketing stars coming to play because the tournament has now been sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Preparations for this domestic T20 tournament has been year round and this year is expected to be the best in terms of the organisation and the quality of the cricket to be played.
Founder of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA), Mahammad Qureshi said he fully supports international cricket coming to the US and thinks that it is the right stimulus that the games need in this country. "We need big matches like these to take place in the US so that we can get the kids interested in the game and this is the only way we can build the sport.
"Everyone knows that the US is a huge market to get into and the ICC will do well to bring cricket to these parts. You would not believe but the US Open has ignited such passion for the game here that there are hundreds of kids attending cricket camps in our area and wanting to play the sport now.
"We will continue to CCUSA to provide that impetus that the game needs in America and it is great that the ICC is now marrying our developmental work with competitive cricket involving their full members."