Let’s not put tickets out of reach of genuine fans
Updated On: 18 November, 2023 04:11 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
If this scam is on, it needs to be nipped in the bud very quickly and uprooted comprehensively, so that there is no repeat
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Wankhede stadium. Pic/PTI
This newspaper reported about cricket fans hanging around outside the Wankhede stadium. While that was expected with the high-stakes India vs New Zealand semi-final on, what was surprising was the number of people clamouring for tickets, saying that they were being sold in black.
Many tickets were being offered at 10 times the original price, and these young men and some women were in tears as they just could not fork out these sums. One had to feel for them, as they claimed tickets were sold out in an hour or two as booking opened, and many of them claimed they could not get then online at all, or offline, too.
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