Online tickets for India-Pakistan matches sold out in less than an hour during pre sale window

In less than an hour, the first lot of tickets for India’s ODI World Cup matches against Pakistan have been completely booked. The match tickets for India’s World Cup matches became available on ICC’s ticketing partner, ‘BookMyShow’ website, on August 29th at exactly 6 PM. All eyes were on the India vs Pakistan match, but fans were disappointed when tickets sold out in mere minutes.

🚨 Set your alarms for 8 PM IST tonight as we go live with all the India warm up matches in #Guwahati and #Trivandrum #CWC23@BCCI @cricketworldcup @ICC pic.twitter.com/wYZa73T1fh

— BookMyShow (@bookmyshow) August 30, 2023

Growing frustration

Criticism poured in on social media as fans were left waiting in virtual lines for over 6 hours due to poor service by the ticketing partner. BookMyShow’s website crashed shortly after the ticket sale started, causing eager fans to accumulate in virtual queues. As time passed, the queue waiting time increased rapidly.

Dear @bookmyshow, Please fix your website. #cwc23tickets #INDvsPAK pic.twitter.com/71cny8lTTx

— Akshay Gaikar (@AkshayGaikar2) August 30, 2023

Disappointment strikes

After only about 5 minutes of waiting, fans were told to remain patient for over 6 hours in the queue by BookMyShow’s website. Despite waiting for 2 hours, the website eventually announced that tickets were sold out.
Although, the exact number of tickets available during the pre-sale period for all India matches and warm-up games remains unknown.

🔹 India v Australia
🔹 India v Afghanistan
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Tickets for India's #CWC23 matches at Chennai, Delhi and Pune will go live tomorrow! 🎟 pic.twitter.com/vjryptYFy5

— ICC (@ICC) August 30, 2023

High demand expected

Moreover, there will be another ticket sale for the India-Pakistan match on September 3, and there is a possibility of another quick sell-out, similar to what happened on Tuesday. The ICC allows two tickets per person for all India games and four tickets per person for non-India games.