PSL tickets precious for cricket-starved fans in Pakistan : News, Cricket

Cricket-starved fans in Pakistan are not overly worried about which players are arriving to Lahore for Sunday’s Pakistan Super League closing. They want to know where they can buy tickets.

PSL organisers claimed that 10,000 tickets at the Gaddafi Stadium is going to probably be sold for $5 to the closing. The remaining stores have been priced at $76 $ 38 and $ 114.

However, hundreds of enthusiasts around the city of Lahore on Wednesday went from bank looking for tickets.

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guards with all cricket lovers gather outside a lender to buy ticket for approaching final game of Pakistan Super League at Lahore. (AP Photo)

 

“We moved to at least five branches but couldn’t find even one ticket,” said Faiza Tasleem, a college student.

Tasleem was accompanied by her nine college friends, but none of them had been effective in acquiring a ticket. The organizers also have made it mandatory for each and every buyer to produce their National Identity Card of buying a ticket at the time.

Entrance to the scene will only be made once the spectator shows their ID at different security checkpoints on Sunday.

Personal defenses stand alert outside the Gadaffi cricket stadium, the place for the upcoming final of the Pakistan Super League at Lahore. (AP Photo)

 

“We are not going to get disheartened, there are still three days to go and we expect to find the ticket to the Sunday’s closing,” said Tasleem, whose favorite team Quetta Gladiators qualified to the closing.

“It is with a heavy heart I will not be coming to Lahore. I have a young family and for me a match of cricket is simply not worth the risk,” Wright tweeted. “I am sorry as I know how much it means to you all and hopefully in the long run the safety will not be in doubt to come play there.”

But for fans it mattered.

“Whosoever plays for Quetta we’ll support them,” Tasleem stated. “we would like to show the entire world that we are sports-loving people and we want cricket back home on our own grounds.”

Peshawar will have another chance at the Sunday’s closing as it meets with the winner of Thursday’s game between defending winner and Karachi Kings Islamabad United.

The government has assured security for its Sunday’s final despite a recent wave of attacks that killed dozens of people. If a bomber targeted police escorting a rally by 18, at least 13 people were killed in Lahore.

Former cricketers such as Imran Khan, Javed Miandad and Aamir Sohail have criticized PCB’s decision.

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