Black marketers are making a killing with cricket enthusiasts from India and Pakistan scrambling to get tickets for the semifinal in Mohali at "any cost".
Tickets for the semifinal - dubbed as the mother of all clashes - have been attracting offer prices up to twenty times the original rate.
So big is the rush that tickets priced at Rs 10,000 were being sold for about Rs 50,000.
The tickets worth Rs 15,000 are attracting bids of about Rs 1 lakh each. The student block tickets priced at Rs 250 are commanding a price of up to Rs 5,000 while the huge demand has escalated the chair block tickets worth Rs 500 each to Rs 10,000.
Fans have been making phone calls to friends and acquaintances, including those in media and police, to arrange the tickets or accept money for passes.
The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium at Mohali - which would host the historic semi-final on March 30 - has made arrangements to accommodate 27,500 people.
The PCA sold more than 15,000 tickets over the counter on March 21 and 22.
Those who bought tickets earlier are trying to sell them in the black market since people are ready to dole out "an unprecedented" amount for tickets.
Though police authorities claimed they would check black marketing of tickets, cricket enthusiasts revealed a large number was actually being sold by cops - some of whom are on security duty in and around the stadium.
Representatives of some corporate houses, who were ready to pay 'any amount', were seen outside the PCA Stadium in an effort to get tickets for the corporate boxes.
The town also expects more than 200 fans from
MP Pandove, PCA secretary, stated that the association had already sent 50 tickets to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
"The PCB would distribute those tickets among their official visitors, celebrities and other VIPs. Several sports enthusiasts had made arrangement of tickets on their own," Pandove said.
"People from
GS Walia, PCA joint secretary, said that some senior political personalities and celebrities were expected to witness the match.
"We have made arrangement for world-class hospitality," he said.
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi and chairman of the Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani are also expected during the match. Reported by Indiatoday
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