India's Gambhir and Pakistan's wicketkeeper Akmal argue
The countdown to the most-anticipated game of the cricket World Cup – the India v/s Pakistan semi-final in Mohali - is inducing a whole new dimension of cricket fanaticism.
While the official sale of tickets for the World Cup match stopped on March 21, fans from across Andhra Pradesh, most of them industrialists, have shelled out between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 80,000 to grab a seat at the stadium. In fact, some hardcore cricket devotees have even paid a whopping Rs. 1.25 – Rs. 1.5 lakh to watch the India Pakistan semi-final calendared for March 30, The Times of India reported.
And while the tickets for the India-Pakistan semi-finals are virtually burning holes in many pockets, the price to get there is yet another story. There is such a demand for tickets to Mohali, that last Sunday, a one-way ticket to Chandigarh was being sold for Rs. 28,000. An economy class return to Singapore or Dubai costs much lesser.
Mukesh Ambani's World Cup Plans
Amid this hullabaloo of the World Cup 2011 semi-final between India and Pakistan, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has already secured himself three corporate boxes in MCA Pavilion at the southern end of the renovated Wankhede stadium for an enormous Rs. 5 crore, the Mumbai Mirror reported.
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