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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

WORLD CUP FINAL……TICKET ISSUE

Website crashes

33000 Tickets are available.


Only 4000 tickets to be sold for World Cup final and only 1000 tickets are available for online.

The mystery of the missing tickets

Voucher-holders miss warm-up match

If ever a URL contained an entire saga in its few words, http://www.icccwc2011.kyazoonga.com/Tickets/ Error/. The ICC World Cup 2011 is now momentarily defined not by its month-long group matches, the presence of the game's much-abused fringe element, the Associates, or its extremely malleable home advantage quarter-final round, but instead by its ticketing error.

The most prominent errors took place when the official ticketing partners, Kyazoonga.com's servers were overwhelmed with the load on Monday afternoon when they went 'live' with sales for the finals and semi-finals at 1pm India time.

What has infuriated World Cup fans - whose angry comments on ESPNcricinfo have hit the newswires all day. The 33,000-seater Wankhede Stadium is one of the two smallest Indian grounds hosting World Cup matches.

Only Mohali with a capacity of 27,500 is smaller.
Eden Gardens - 63,000,
Motera - 54,000,
Chepauk - 45,000,
Ferozshah Kotla - 42,000,
Nagpur - 45,000,
Chinnaswamy - 37,000.
Among the 33,000 and

In the Wankhede, only 4000 are for sale to the public - the rest will be distributed to the ICC and the Mumbai Cricket Association's member clubs.

The price-range for the first match at the Wankhede on March 13,
New Zealand v Canada, is between Rs 2500 to Rs 3750.
The March 18 match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka ranges from Rs 5000 to Rs 7500.
The World Cup finals tickets are priced between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000.

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