HCA chief Mohd Azharuddin shurgs off any role in T20I tickets sales row

Hyderabad: Expressing his sadness over stampede-like situation at Gymkhana grounds, resulting in injuries to a few fans on Thursday, Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) President and former India skipper Mohd Azharuddin on Friday clarified that HCA has not involved in the sale of tickets.

Addressing a press conference on the arrangements made for the Sunday’s International match at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal here, Azhar said: "We are not in the sales picture as the entire ticket sales contract was given to a third party and they are handling it."
The cricket lovers on Thursday were made several allegations on the HCA for mismanagement and making money by selling tickets in black.

However, Azhar while denying the allegations said it is not possible for them to do that “When the ticket sale is all online, apart from a few tickets offline.

It is not in our hands when someone buys a ticket offline or online, he said the police will take action if anyone sells tickets in black.To a question, the HCA President said, “11,450 tickets were sold online on September 15 while 4,000 corporate box tickets were sold later. Around 3,000 tickets were put on sale offline and 2,100 tickets were sold online again on Thursday.

Around 6,000 tickets are being given to the stakeholders and internal partners of the association,” he informed.Though the stadium has a capacity of 55,000, only over 39,000 seats were made available for the viewing.

When asked about the police cases booked against the HCA office bearers, Azhar said Paytm is the official partner to sell tickets and he blamed them for the fiasco.(UNI)