The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah confirmed after a gathering on Thursday, July 27 that there will likely be no provision for e-tickets for the World Cup 2023 although tickets for the marquee occasion will likely be bought on-line.

In an effort to present followers with a clean ticketing course of and spare them the inconvenience of lengthy queues, the BCCI is getting ready to arrange a number of ticket-collection factors at venues, every week or so earlier than every match.

“We will’t use e-tickets this time round however will guarantee to have bodily tickets redemption at 7-8 centres properly upfront. However a bodily tickets should be retained,” Jay Shah informed reporters.

“It’ll get troublesome to handle e-tickets at high-capacity venues like Ahmedabad and Lucknow. Our plan is to begin utilizing e-tickets extra in bilaterals first after which take it to multi-nation occasions just like the World Cup,” the BCCI secretary went on so as to add,” he added.

World Cup 2023 Ticket Gross sales Opening Quickly!

Based on Jay Shah’s assertion, the ICC and the BCCI will likely be making a joint announcement about ticket gross sales shortly, with the companions for the occasion already chosen. Nevertheless, there’s a excessive probability that tickets will go on sale subsequent week.

“We had a phrase with the state associations immediately on the tickets. 90 p.c of the associations got here with the manifests and 1-2 didn’t have it prepared. We’ve given them time until Monday to kind it out. The ICC and BCCI will then collectively announce ticket pricing and all the things. The ticketing associate can also be virtually sorted.”

For the primary time ever, India would be the sole host of the 50-overs World Cup, which is about to happen from October 5 to November 19, 2023.

The celebrated occasion, scheduled from October 5 to November 19, 2023, will likely be performed throughout ten venues in India, together with Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Dharamsala, Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Pune, Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Kolkata.

Moreover, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram will host warm-up matches from September 29 to October 3. India will kick off its World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to the five-time champions Australia on October 8 at MA Chidambaram stadium, Chennai.