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February 22, 2011, Tuesday
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THE website selling just 1,000 tickets for the World Cup final in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium on April 2 crashed seconds after they went on sale yesterday sparking furious complaints from fans.
Tickets were put on sale at 0730 GMT via the International Cricket Council's official ticketing partner Kyazoonga.com but the website buckled under the pressure of huge traffic.
"We are facing absolutely unprecedented amounts of traffic from all over the world, with hundreds of millions of people hitting at once," the online agent said in a statement posted on Facebook.
"Some of you may have trouble accessing the site. It seems that cricket fever has surpassed all expectations. Please bear with us as our network team works on bringing you the tickets you all have been waiting for."
Of the 33,000 seats at the Wankhede, around 4,000 are available to the public - 1,000 online while another 3,000 odd will be sold later for those who queue up at stadium box offices.
The rest are distributed among the ICC and clubs affiliated to the Mumbai Cricket Association.
An unnamed source at Yahoo said they were being inundated by complaints from hundreds of fans who were unable to log on to the official ticket agency through a link posted on the popular search engine's website.
Fans also bombarded the ticket agency's Facebook page with angry comments.
With such a small proportion available to the general public in a cricket-crazy country where the population is more than a billion, it is little wonder that there has been a mad scramble for tickets.
When Reuters tried to log on to Kyazoonga.com an hour after the tickets went on sale, the website was timing out.
Five hours on, and the site was still not back up.
Tickets were put on sale at 0730 GMT via the International Cricket Council's official ticketing partner Kyazoonga.com but the website buckled under the pressure of huge traffic.
"We are facing absolutely unprecedented amounts of traffic from all over the world, with hundreds of millions of people hitting at once," the online agent said in a statement posted on Facebook.
"Some of you may have trouble accessing the site. It seems that cricket fever has surpassed all expectations. Please bear with us as our network team works on bringing you the tickets you all have been waiting for."
Of the 33,000 seats at the Wankhede, around 4,000 are available to the public - 1,000 online while another 3,000 odd will be sold later for those who queue up at stadium box offices.
The rest are distributed among the ICC and clubs affiliated to the Mumbai Cricket Association.
An unnamed source at Yahoo said they were being inundated by complaints from hundreds of fans who were unable to log on to the official ticket agency through a link posted on the popular search engine's website.
Fans also bombarded the ticket agency's Facebook page with angry comments.
With such a small proportion available to the general public in a cricket-crazy country where the population is more than a billion, it is little wonder that there has been a mad scramble for tickets.
When Reuters tried to log on to Kyazoonga.com an hour after the tickets went on sale, the website was timing out.
Five hours on, and the site was still not back up.
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