Dhaka: A large number of people queued up overnight outside of banks in Dhaka in a bid to buy highly-priced cricket World Cup tickets, which went on sale on Sunday.
The country’s two leading banks are selling tickets for eight matches at the Feb 19-April 2 tournament, to be jointly hosted along with India and Sri Lanka, from their 80 branches.
People started gathering in front of the banks on Saturday morning, braving cool weather but there were expected to be a number of disappointed fans.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said that the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, which will host six matches including the opener between India and Bangladesh, has a seating capacity of 25,167 but only 15,167 tickets are available for local spectators.
The remainders of the tickets are to be reserved for the International Cricket Council, foreign visitors and other stakeholders.
There is a similar situation at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, which will host Bangladesh’s group matches against England and Netherlands, with 12,521 tickets made available for locals at the 17,800 capacity venue.
The BCB apologised to the fans on Saturday as most of them will be deprived of tickets
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