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Ticket sales for ICC 2010 World 20/20 cricket begin

Nov 03, 2009 Sports

System malfunction stall commencement of sales

By Sean Devers
The ICC 2010 World 20/20 cricket tournament begins with a double header at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence on April 30 and with less than 200 days to the commencement of the 3rd such competition and first in the West Indies, the sale of tickets begun yesterday.
Tickets for the 3 days of cricket (6 matches) in Guyana cost US$5 for the mound, US$10 for Stands and US$65 for the Party Stand while children under 16 years old will be admitted to the Providence Stadium free.
Sri Lanka and New Zealand clash in the tournament’s opening game from 13:00hrs before the West Indies oppose the ICC Associate qualifier in the first International match under lights in Guyana from 17:00hrs.
On Monday May 3, Sri Lanka face Zimbabwe and England face the West Indies under lights in another double header, while New Zealand battle Zimbabwe and the ICC Associate qualifier face-off with England in the last match fixed for Guyana on May 4.
Guyana’s ticket sales were off to a bad start yesterday due to a ‘system failure’ and people who were informed by the media that tickets would be available at the Guyana Cricket Board where the Ticket Office was located, were told that no tickets were available for sale when they turned up there yesterday morning.
A ticket agent at the GCB office informed that the system failure was the reason tickets could not be sold since the ticket sale for the second international tournament in Guyana following the 2007 World Cup, was electronically controlled.
Just after 13:00hrs yesterday, Guyana ticket agent Miss Johnson said the problem was being worked on and was hopeful that the sales of tickets would have commenced yesterdays afternoon. However, shortly after that the problem was rectified and ticket sales commenced yesterday.
Johnson informed that tickets will be sold between 08:00hrs to 16:00hrs daily.
She added that it was not a ‘Guyana system problem’ but one which was affecting the entire Caribbean network.
Johnson said that St Lucia and Guyana ticketing offices encountered the problem. Barbados however, did not experience the glitch and sold as scheduled.
The two semi-finals (Men and Women) will be staged in St Lucia on May 13 and 14 before the 2 finals are held at the Kensington Oval in Barbados on May 22.
Unlike this year in England when both finals were held on the same day, the Women’s final will be the feature game under lights after the final of Male version of the competition is held and this will be the same for the semis in St Lucia.
The ICC explained that this was to facilitate the TV viewers in places like India who would not want to get up at 03:00hrs to watch cricket.
Broadcasters are playing an increasingly bigger role in match schedules for International cricket since cricket has become big business, money seems to be one of the main influencing factors not only for the players but also administrators who have decided to have the perceived less important final as the feature game to accommodate the over 1 billion TV viewers and prospective sponsors of the televised matches who want to watch cricket at Prime Time.

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