The White-Ball Tour of India by Australia has been gone for four months, but Cricket Australia (CA) has already sold more than 90,000 tickets for eight games with the third ODI in Sydney and the first twenty20 in Canberra was completely sold out.
India will travel down in October-November to participate in three ODIs-Startende October 19 in Perth-and five T20 internationals-the last in Brisbane on November 8.
“The Australia vs India White Ball Series in October/November generated an enormous excitement among cricket fans, in particular of the Indian Diaspora,” the CA said in a statement.
“The public ticket allocation for the SCG ODI and Manuka Oval (Canberra) T20i were exhausted four months prior to the competition for the enormous demand for these competitions, while the MCG T20i and Gabba T20i also turn out to be popular.
“After record ticket sales for the Ashes, the White-Ball competitions were also in high demand, with more than 90,000 tickets sold to the eight games after just two weeks of public sale.”
According to Ca, more than 16 percent of the tickets sold so far have been purchased by Indian Fanclubs.
“Bharat Army has been one of the most active fan clubs and buys more than 2,400 tickets. Fans India has also shown a lot of enthusiasm and bought more than 1,400 tickets,” said it.
“Moreover, Amit Goyal from Brissy Baniyas, an Aggarwal community, has acquired 880 tickets for the Gabba T20i and became the highest individual buyer for a single match, while the Indian community of Gold Coast and Pakka Local has bought more than 500 tickets for the Gold Coast and MCG T20is.”
Joel Morrison, Executive General Manager Events & Operations Cricket Australia, said that there was “extreme interest” at the fans “in what promises to be the biggest summer of cricket ever”.
“We are delighted to abandon a constant strong involvement in the Indian diaspora from the back of a record-breaking Border-Gavaskar series last summer. The predicted strong rise of Australian and Indian fans means that we will again have a fantastic atmosphere at every competition.”
