Colombo: The International Cricket Council (ICC) Sunday announced the process for the public sale of tickets for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 semi-finals in Colombo and Mohali on 29 and 30 March, respectively and the final to be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April.
When the tickets were initially programmed to go on sale on 21 February the demand was so great that the website was overloaded.
Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Chief Executive, announced in Bengaluru that there will be a public ballot system similar to that which is used in the majority of global sporting events. The ballot will open on Monday 28 February.
Mr Lorgat said: “It was most unfortunate and no blame should be directed at Kyazoonga, the ICC’s official ticketing partner, as no one could have anticipated that tens of millions people would be trying to access the site an hour before it went live. In truth Kyazoonga have been an innocent third party in all the issues we have had with ticketing.” In conjunction with the hosts, we have now agreed that a ballot system is the best means of releasing any available tickets for the semis and final.
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