IPL 2019: CSK to donate ticket proceeds of opening match against RCB to Pulwama martyrs' families

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Wednesday announced that the proceeds of ticket sales of its first IPL match match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 23 will go to the families of CRPF jawans who were martyred in Pulwama terror attack. 

Defending IPL champions CSK plays the opener of IPL-12 against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on March 23.

Ticktes of the opening clash between the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led CSK and Virat Kohli-led RCB are already sold out.  The sale of tickets for the first game of IPL-12 began on March 16 and were sold out within hours. 

The check of the ticket proceeds will be handed over to relevant authorities by Dhoni aftre the match. 

“Our captain MS Dhoni, who is honorary lieutinent colonel of the Indian territorial army, will present the cheque,” CSK Director Rakesh Singh said in a statement issued by the ipl franchise. 

Forty CRPF jawans were killed last month in a suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on February 14 when a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist blew up his explosives-laden vehicle alongside their bus, which was part of a convoy going from Jammu to Srinagar.

This was one of the worst attack on security personnel in Kashmir in three decades.

Later in the month,  the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out air strike on a JeM camp in Balakot in Pakistan in what the Indian government described as “preemptive non-militray” strike.