India played their Tests at Cape Town, Centurion and Johannesburg. They didn’t play a Test here.
Port Elizabeth is a much smaller and poorer city. (According to today’s newspaper, unemployment is 84% and HIV prevalence is 28%). There is much less of a sense of danger than there was at Durban (where I got chased down the street one block from the ground) but central PE - where the ground is - is visibly poor.
I think on a Friday in PE either you are working or you can’t afford $12 for a cricket ticket.
I was referring to the odi that Ind played here