Tanvir Ahmed making some interesting points behind the poor crowd attendance
1) Lack of Marketing and Promotion by the PCB, PSL authorities and Karachi Kings Franchise. This makes sense because i remember in 2019 when the PSL was shifted from UAE to Karachi for the final leg, the then PCB authorities went over drive in promoting the PSL with posters, fliers, bill boards everywhere in every corner of Karachi from the slums to the Posh areas, in the last few years, the PCB, PSL and Karachi Kings have barely done any advertising, promotion and any posters, billboards are strictly limited to the area close to National Stadium.
Karachi Kings can surely offer membership to their fans for a fee and in exchange for the membership, they can offer discounted tickets to their fans. Poor Franchise Management
2) Karachi is the busiest city in Pakistan, here employees and businessmen have the busiest working hours compared to the other cities in Pakistan. If you don't facilitate them to watch the matches then these people are not crazy or stupid enough to give up their work in exchange for khuari, inconvenience
3) Inconvenient Traffic Plan, Lack of Communication with Fans. Fans have to park their cars very far from the stadiums in very insecure places where people are worried whether their cars will be safe or not, people have to walk for 15-30 minutes to enter the stadium. This is very inconvenient and impractical for people especially for families with kids.
4) Strict security plan. Block all the roads when the teams are travelling from the hotel to the stadium and vice versa, but open all the roads and traffic once the teams have arrived at the stadium or hotel. Right now, all the roads are continuously blocked for lengthier durations, right now the traffic around the stadium is closed for 5-6 hours. Wasim Akram himself confirmed when the Pavilion team tried to get to the stadium, they themselves were stuck in traffic for 1.5 hours and then they were like screw this, lets just go back, the average person perhaps has to leave his home atleast 4-5 hours in advance in order to get to the stadium
5) Need to build a stadium outside Karachi. The rafi stadium in Bahria town if completed can solve this problem were people will be easily able to go to the stadium and you don't need to lock down the city of karachi either.
6) Pathetic Infrastructure of the National Stadium. The seats are in very poor condition and the screen has been so poorly constructed that it obstructs certain members of the audience from watching the match. People need to be entertained and facilitated with food facilities especially family members with kids. Encourage different fast food chains, eateries, resteraunts to set up their stalls inside the stadiums so that people have different food options. Improve the conditions of the washrooms, entertain people with music e.t.c.
7) Lahore, Multan, Pindi have the advantage that it is closeby to other cities. People from other cities, town close to these cities can come watch matches in these stadiums where at most they only have to drive for 30-45 minutes. Unfortunately Karachi has no such advantage and the closest city Hyderabad is 2 hours away from Karachi and therefore no one is going to come to Karachi to watch a cricket match in the stadium.
8) Poor performance of the Karachi Kings Franchise. The stadiums will be jampacked if the KK franchise was doing well and if they qualified for the playoffs, final
9) Ramzan factor. High chances of getting full crowds after Iftari
10) Hosting games in Karachi during the weekends
