“Worst Cricketing Board ever”- Fans filled with RAGE after BCCI announces no e-tickets for ODI World Cup

BCCI will be setting up seven to eight centers around the stadiums where physical tickets will be available.

Jay Shah (L) and Roger Binny (R) (Source: Dainik Bhaskar)

In what has come as terrible news for fans, the BCCI has decided to scrap the concept of E-tickets for the 2023 ODI World Cup. The quadrennial showpiece is set to kick off on 5th October 2023 with a match between last year’s finalists, England and New Zealand.

With this massive setback, spectators will now have to possess a physical ticket to get entry to all World Cup venues across the country. BCCI will be setting up seven to eight centers around the stadiums where physical tickets will be available.

Jay Shah said, “We can’t use e-tickets this time around but will ensure to have physical tickets redemption at 7-8 centers well in advance. But the physical ticket needs to be retained. It will get difficult to manage e-tickets at high-capacity venues like Ahmedabad and Lucknow. Our plan is to start using e-tickets more in bilaterals first and then take it to multi-nation events like the World Cup.”

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Fans mock BCCI for scrapping E-Tickets

Fans took to Twitter to voice their opinions on BCCI’s latest move about the 2023 ODI World Cup. The decision of making physical tickets mandatory has not sat well with the fans. Take a look at some of the reactions.

You can use the digital mode of payment to get 10 Rs Kulcha from a road side stall without any hassles,But the world's richest board will make u go through the humiliation of standing in queues to get the physical tickets even if you are spending 5k.

Digital India is a joke!
— Gagan Chawla (@toecrushrzzz) July 28, 2023

BCCI has to be the worst cricketing board ever. Apparently the richest board yet has no provision of an e-ticket.

2. How are international fans supposed to buy tickets? Stand in the queue for 5h to get their physical ticket?

3. Chaos at the ticket venues guaranteed.

Terrible. https://t.co/3H8VrHqxck
— Srigan Moharir (@MoharirMusings) July 28, 2023

no…it is not difficult to have e-tickets at big venues, in fact, it's easier & seamless to have e-tickets than physical tickets. What happened to 'Digital India'? It's the infrastructure we don't have and don't want to have because e-tickets r harder to scalp….
— Kesariya Vilaity (@KVilaity) July 28, 2023

I watched SA v India on 22 Feb 15 at the MCG.
Bought tickets: Feb 2014
Booked my flights: Jun 2014
Print at Home Tickets delivered: Nov 2014
Got my Aus tourist visa: Dec 2014
Never had to queue for physical tickets.

BCCI's organisation of 2023 WC has been a total shitshow.
— arun v (@unraveaero) July 28, 2023

Terrible from BCCI!!! What will be the case for the foreigners who are going to visit? When will they receive the tickets? I can't believe we are in 2023 and still using physical copies. Digital tickets were tried in WPL and it worked out amazingly. They even had the whole IPL to https://t.co/EJxEjbmDix
— vedant tipnis (@vedantggmu) July 28, 2023

Dumbest thing on internet this decade???
E-tickets will be difficult, ????
Physical tickets for 140 crore people in 8 locations will be easy, ??????#SanjuSamson #INDvsWI #WorldCup2023 #indvspak #BCCI #Gayshah https://t.co/7EEEp8Big9
— Jake Sullivan (@Moshimodutti) July 28, 2023

I was hoping to watch a few games, but BCCI is successfully making me anxious with schedule changes, ticket releases and now with physical tickets!

How can fans collect physical tickets if they have to be in 2 cities for 2 matches in 2 days?
— Ananthasubramanian (@_chinmusic) July 28, 2023

Rubbish from BCCI.
Moving to physical tickets in the so-called golden age of the country! https://t.co/VRU4mXwVsj
— Aditya Dubey (@bom88ujn) July 28, 2023

You're telling us one of the richest governing body can't do e tickets ? Fifa World Cup , Olympics , Euros do it.
We all know why physical tickets are needed ? Black Market , Hoarding become easy and fills the pocket of @BCCI
Indian Cricket Fans are taken for granted as usual https://t.co/OkUH3veS12
— Naimesh shah (@shahnaimesh) July 28, 2023

Tickets for matches can be bought online but entry would only be allowed after a physical ticket is presented. Jay Shah says that this would ensure no duplication of tickets and a ‘better experience’ for the fans. The fans, however, completely disagree with that and have already started questioning the management of such a large-scale event as the ODI World Cup.

“Worst Cricketing Board ever”- Fans filled with RAGE after BCCI announces no e-tickets for ODI World Cup

Fans mock BCCI for scrapping E-Tickets

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