The future of the Chinnaswamy Stadium is at the top of the agenda for both newly elected KSCA president Venkatesh Prasad and Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar. Both men are speaking in one voice that the iconic stadium’s lost glory will return, and Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru will not lose a single marquee match—IPL or international.

This is the first time in months that Karnataka cricket has received such a clear and unequivocal assurance after the catastrophic stampede during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s IPL victory celebrations in June pushed the iconic venue into an unprecedented crisis.

Blacklisted on safety grounds, stripped of major fixtures, and reduced to hosting domestic matches in front of empty stands, Chinnaswamy had slipped to the sidelines of Indian crick

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