Nothing much to report today. Chennai is big and growing bigger all the time. The bus ride through the city took us through the fast growing outskirts, the city swelling in size as more and more large western companies outsource various parts of their business to India.
The tragedy is there is no infrastructure to support it. So, while you see plush new offices for Ebay and Paypal for instance, they're in the middle of nowhere, the road outside is gridlocked, the pavement outside is non existent, and there are no cafes or anything nearby. So everyone has to drive to and from work, equalling more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more chaos. Private affluence, public squalor.
The bus dropped as off at the ground so I had a peek around. It is unrecognisable from two years ago, my last visit, and apparently unrecognisable from a few months ago when it was still a crumbling concrete bowl. Now, three quarters of it has been completely rebuilt, and it looks most impressive.
I'm still slightly suspicious about how it could have been built so quickly. As one person near me commented, I hope the fans don't jump up and down too much during the game.
Watched a little bit of England's training session too. They dropped at least half of the catches, with the main culprits being those who you would normally say had the safest hands. It doesn't bode well for a game they really need to win.
The tragedy is there is no infrastructure to support it. So, while you see plush new offices for Ebay and Paypal for instance, they're in the middle of nowhere, the road outside is gridlocked, the pavement outside is non existent, and there are no cafes or anything nearby. So everyone has to drive to and from work, equalling more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more chaos. Private affluence, public squalor.
The bus dropped as off at the ground so I had a peek around. It is unrecognisable from two years ago, my last visit, and apparently unrecognisable from a few months ago when it was still a crumbling concrete bowl. Now, three quarters of it has been completely rebuilt, and it looks most impressive.
I'm still slightly suspicious about how it could have been built so quickly. As one person near me commented, I hope the fans don't jump up and down too much during the game.
Watched a little bit of England's training session too. They dropped at least half of the catches, with the main culprits being those who you would normally say had the safest hands. It doesn't bode well for a game they really need to win.
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