Amid the dearth of ICC Cricket World Cup tickets out there, former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad has voiced his displeasure over the dealing with of the matter. Prasad’s response comes after followers, who in accordance with him are the most important stakeholders of the sport, slammed the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI), Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) and BookMyShow, the official ticketing companion, over the distribution of tickets. Followers had been left empty handed, regardless of ready within the queue for hours on the official website, because the tickets had been offered at a fee of knots.

Reacting to the fiasco, Prasad demanded a correct audit over the distribution of the tickets as a way to establish the offender behind the dearth of tickets for the mega occasion.

“This does not look good. Both the ticket companions are incompetent to deal with the ticket and visitors or that is one other eyewash within the identify of releasing tickets. Hope there’s a correct audit and identification of how the tickets are offered and to whom and what platform. Simply can not take the most important stakeholders, the followers for a experience with false assurances,” Prasad replied to BCCI’s publish on X.

Notably, BookMyShow’s web site confirmed a ready time of simply 90 minutes, however the followers needed to watch for for much longer whereas reserving the tickets.

Earlier, As a result of excessive calls for of tickets, the BCCI determined to launch 400,000 recent tickets for followers.

Even after that, many followers had been left ampty-handed as the web site confirmed that the tickets have been offered out.

Waited for 30 minutes in queue to get this error message. #ICCWorldCup2023 ticket reserving is absolute nightmare for the followers. @BCCI pic.twitter.com/SrDPx7d4MS

— rajasekhar (@itsRajG) September 8, 2023

#bookmyshow #BCCI #rip-off #CWC2023 #IndiaVsPakistan

Nice ticket rip-off by bookmyshow after watch for 90 minutes reserving web page was open however when i choose seat it exhibits that every one seats are offered out
Nice rip-off
Disgracepic.twitter.com/RrrIOsln6w

— Alay Raval (@RAVALALAY007) September 8, 2023

ICC cricket World Cup ticket rip-off@bookmyshow – huge embarrassment to this digital platform
Waited for just below 1 hr within the queue to e-book tkts and at last received in to pick out the seats solely to get a message that tickets are SOLD OUT ,clearly ( see pic beneath) tkts r obtainable pic.twitter.com/xucBMXgAMe

— Vyshnavi (@VasishtaViju) September 8, 2023

World Cup tickets are a legit rip-off..
Each time I am going contained in the stadium to e-book my tickets however after I click on on cost it says they’re booked by different… @ICC @NeonMan_01 @JayShah @bookmyshow @imVkohli @ImRo45 #rip-off #TICKETSCAM pic.twitter.com/mlzwZ50Vmu

— jinang Shah (@jinangS98961136) September 8, 2023

“I urge the @BCCI to have extra transparency within the World Cup ticketing system and never take followers without any consideration. Positively in a stadium like Ahmedabad, for an #IndvsPak conflict greater than the offered 8500 tickets must be obtainable when the capability is 1 lakh +. Likewise for all different matches, a bigger chunk must be for the followers. Will probably be extra fulfilling if the diehard fan is saved pleased and never disadvantaged of this chance as a substitute of reserving a big chunk for corporates and members,” he had posted on X.