The much-anticipated ticket sales for India vs Pakistan match for the Asia Cup 2022 on Monday gained momentum after it went on sale at 6 pm UAE time (7:30 pm IST) and sold out in minutes, leaving several netizens disappointed.
Hundreds of them took to the social media platform— Twitter to express their frustration as they waited hours long for their turn to book the tickets.
Platinumlist, the official ticketing site, posted on their website, “The first batch of tickets for India vs Pakistan match has been sold out and the organisers will release the next batch of tickets in the following days. All other matches remain on sale, so please stay in the queue to buy tickets.”
Over 7,000 fans were in the queue minutes after the booking opened with a waiting time of about 50 minutes.
“If you’re in the queue, don’t worry, this has been set up to give everyone a fair opportunity to get their tickets,” Platinum List said. “Due to an extremely high demand, a fair first come first serve purchase policy has been set up.”
Separate pages have been created to buy the tickets for matches in Dubai and Sharjah stadiums.
Some of them had queued up from as early as 4:30 am on Monday, only to be told in the afternoon that ticket sales would begin at 6 pm.
Social media users tried to resell their tickets. One user posted on Platinum List’s Twitter page that he had four tickets he was willing to sell for “a little more than the original price.”
The ticket platform responded to him immediately, saying that “resale of tickets is strictly prohibited” and that they would be “invalid upon entry”. It later posted that tickets from distributors are automatically cancelled.
Here are some of the reactions:
The Asia Cup, which was scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, will be played from August 27 to September 11 in UAE. The highly anticipated clash involving India and Pakistan will be played on August 28 in Dubai.
The Asia Cup Twenty20 was initially to be staged in Sri Lanka but the prevailing political conditions in the island nation have forced the Asia Cricket Council to move it to the UAE.
This will be the second time in the last five years that the UAE will host the Asia Cup. In 2018, the tournament, held in a 50-over format, was held between September 15 and 28 in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.
