UP govt claims Lucknow's AQI was 174, not over 400 after T20I gets abandoned

After India-South Africa T20I got abandoned due to excessive fog, the Uttar Pradesh government claimed that Lucknow's AQI was 174 and not more than 400 as being reported in media. The state government cautioned public against relying on what it termed "misleading figures" from private air-quality applications circulating on social media. The match was abandoned without a ball bowled.