On a day when one of the most exciting finishes was seen in Test cricket history at Christchurch with New Zealand defeating Sri Lanka off the final ball of the game and thereby India qualifying for the World Test Championship final in London in June, it was a depressing sight at the world’s biggest cricket stadium.

As many as 1,29,000 seats were empty on the final day of the fourth Test between India and Australia at the Narendra Modi Stadium. This surely isn’t good advertisement for the longest format in a cricket-crazy country.