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50-over cricket is returning to Bangladesh after nine months and after more than a year in Chattogram, but it was clouded by confusion over ticket sales on Tuesday.
A Bangladesh Cricket Board media release stated on Sunday that tickets will be sold at a counter at the BITAC more in Chattogram from 9 AM to 6 PM on Tuesday.
Eager fans arrived at the counter earlier, some even at 4 AM, to get one of the 3,000 tickets allocated for the fans, but the selling did not start on time.
Rather the tickets were sold from 2 PM, meaning a five-hour delay to the original time announced. The sale ended before the scheduled time as tickets were sold out around 5 PM.
Chairman of the media committee of BCB, Tanvir Ahmed Titu, denied that their media release stated that tickets would go on sale at 9 AM.
“There were no problems today (Tuesday). People arrived a little early. The tickets were supposed to be sold from 2 PM. But the people might have heard that tickets would be sold from 9 AM. I did not write anything in the media release (about the selling time),” he said.
There was also confusion about the number of spectators that would be allowed from the second ODI on February 25.
Titu had stated early on Tuesday that they were planning to create a full house from the second ODI as the government had lifted all Covid-19 restrictions.
“We are planning to have a full house from the second ODI. As there are no restrictions from the government anymore, we can do it,” he had told TBP.
Later on, the media committee chairman said they could not arrange a full house because of social distancing measures.
“We have not planned about having a full house. Because we have to maintain social distancing. That is why we will decide tomorrow (today) whether we can have a full house,” Titu said on Tuesday afternoon.
He added that they might increase the number of spectators allowed in the upcoming matches gradually, with the second ODI having around 8,000 spectators.
