Indian crowd likely to outnumber Pakistan fans

LONG ISLAND (NEW YORK): Indian crowd may outnumber Pakistan fans as it is believed that almost 75 percent of tickets sold so far for the crunch World Cup T20 match on Sunday at the Nassau County Ground have gone to the Indian fans.

“We have not been able to get hold of tickets for Sunday’s Pakistan-India match. On the contrary the majority of Indians have purchased tickets,” Haider Ali, who was ready to buy tickets for the match in black, said. “We don’t know as to how they were able to grab tickets which is a rare commodity here. Minutes after the ICC decision to release tickets, these vanished away from the website. My question from the ICC is as how tickets sale and purchase was handled. You would see the Indian crowd in a huge number at the Stadium as surprisingly they purchased these tickets rather quickly,” he said. Though the normal ticket cost for the match is around $500, in blackmarket the price of a ticket has gone up to $5000 to $10,000 (depending on the enclosure). The nearest it is to the playing field, the costliest the match ticket is in the blackmarket.

The general impression is that if the Stadium had the capacity of hosting around one hundred thousand spectators instead of 35,000, the value of the match ticket would have been the same. “Look over 1.5 million have applied for tickets and around 30,000 lucky got hold of entry pass. So the value of a ticket even in the blackmarket would have been the same had the Nassau Stadium could hold hundred thousand people,” Ameen Abbasi, who was seen searching for tickets outside the Stadium on Saturday, said.