Ticket Sales for Wills International Cup (9 October 1998)
Tickets of the forthcoming Wills International Cup, to be led at the Bangabandhu National Stadium from October 24, will also be available at the Narayanganj branch of IFIC Bank
09-Oct-1998
9 October 1998
Ticket Sales for Wills International Cup
Our Sports Reporter
Tickets sold at Narayanganj and Dhaka
Tickets of the forthcoming Wills International Cup, to be led at the
Bangabandhu National Stadium from October 24, will also be available
at the Narayanganj branch of IFIC Bank. This was disclosed yesterday
by Tanveer Mazhar Islam Tanna, a Bangladesh Cricket Board
vice-president and member-secretary of the Ticket and Seating
Sub-committee.
Earlier on Wednesday, it was decided that tickets will be sold only
in Dhaka through 12 branches of the IFIC Bank.
But according to Mr. Islam, the tickets will now be available in 13
branches of the IFIC Bank from October 20. However, tickets at the
Narayanganj branch will be available up to October 22.
The following are the other 12 branches (in Dhaka) of IFIC Bank where
tickets will be available -- Motijheel, FBCCI, Moulvibazaar,
Dhanmondi, Shantinagar, Gulshan, Islampur, Bangshal, Elephant Road,
Naya Paltan, Kawran Bazar and Malibagh.
A total of 31,175 tickets will be sold to the public for each match
day. The number of tickets for the western gallery are 18,000 at the
rate of Tk 150 each while for the eastern gallery the number of
tickets are 12,000 at the rate of Tk 120 each. Besides 375 VIP
tickets, 1400 Club house (east) and 350 Club house (west) tickets
will also be sold at the rate of Tk 1500, 1000 and 1250 respectively.
Apart from these, some 1800 seats have been allotted for the
international gallery, tickets of which will be sold exclusively to
foreigners at the rate of Tk 750 each.
All the 16 air-conditioned and 24 non air-conditioned hospitality
boxes have been sold out.
Meanwhile, Asif Iqbal, the event manager of the knock-out tournament
involving nine Test playing nations, arrived in the capital yesterday
afternoon. He will stay in the capital till the tournament ends on
November 1.
Upon his arrival in the afternoon, Asif visited the Bangabandhu
National Stadium and also spent some time at the BCB office.
Source :: The Bangladesh Daily Star (https://www.dailystarnews.com)