The BCCI’s ticket demand excuse for moving the IPL final from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad is transparently thin. Bengaluru’s 55,000-capacity Chinnaswamy Stadium consistently sells out; demand was never the problem. What’s been conveniently omitted: Ahmedabad’s new 132,000-seat stadium needs a marquee event to justify its construction costs and Modi government backing. This is straightforward venue politicking dressed in commercial language. We’re calling it what it is.