ICC awaits response from Pawar regarding ticket fiasco

ICC Head of Media and Communications Colin Gibson today said that the governing body is awaiting a response from its president Sharad Pawar regarding the controversy involving sale and distribution of tickets for World Cup final.

Left red faced after World Cup’s official ticketing website - kyazoonga.com - crashed because of overload, the International Cricket Council shot off a letter to Pawar asking him to intervene in the controversy involving the sale of tickets for the summit clash.

“The ICC is awaiting a response from him to decide on further course of action,” Gibson, also the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Media Director, told PTI.

The move from the ICC came after rush for tickets saw the ticketing site crashing in just 20 minutes after tickets for the final at the Wankhede stadium on April 2 were put on sale.

Tournament organisers were forced to scrap plans to sell the tickets on the web and organise a ballot system instead.

The ICc was also furious with the state of affairs in which the ticketing for the final was handled. The Mumbai Cricket Association, of which Pawar is the president, has made only 4,000 tickets available to the general public for the summit clash.

The remaining 27,000 seats at the refurbished stadium will be shared by MCA members and ICC’s commercial partners.  (www.economictimes.com)