Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan performs a shot throughout a match towards India. — Reuters/File
Tickets for the highly-anticipated ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 match between arch-rivals Pakistan and India have been offered out in lower than an hour after the tickets for the mega event went on sale.
Cricket fans rushed to the tickets’ gross sales web site with greater than 140,000 followers queuing up on-line to get their arms on the tickets for the match scheduled to happen at Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on February 23.
The event comes because the Champions Trophy tickets went up for grabs on Monday for each the matches set to happen in Pakistan in addition to 4 fixtures scheduled in Dubai because the event is being performed beneath a hybrid format with India set to play their matches within the United Arab Emirates.
Pakistan will host a complete of 10 matches of their nation, whereas 4 matches, together with all three of India’s group-stage matches and the primary semi-final in Dubai.
The ultimate of the Champions Trophy — set to start on February 19 with the Inexperienced Shirts taking up New Zealand within the inaugural fixture — is scheduled to be performed in Lahore, but when India qualifies, then it will likely be held in Dubai.
The minimal ticket value for the Pakistan-India match in Dubai was AED500 and went as much as as excessive as AED12,500.
The tickets for the Pak-India match had been offered out for a complete of AED45.6 million — Rs3.4 billion — with the venue having the capability to entertain 25,000 spectators.
In the meantime, the tickets for all of the matches set to happen in Dubai had been offered out for AED88.5 million.
Excluding Pakistan-India match, the ticket costs for Dubai’s matches begin from as little as AED125.
However, the bodily sale of tickets for the Pakistan-hosted matches of the eight-team event had been made out there for buy throughout 108 designated centres in 26 cities nationwide a day earlier.
The tickets for the highly-anticipated closing of the event, scheduled to be performed on March 9, will probably be placed on sale after the conclusion of the primary semi-final.
It’s to be famous that the eight-team event, comprising 15 matches, will run from February 19 to March 9, throughout three venues — Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi — in Pakistan together with the Dubai stadium.
The eight groups are divided into two teams. Group A options Pakistan, India, New Zealand and Bangladesh, whereas Group B is comprised of Afghanistan, South Africa, England and Australia.