Sachin's 200Th Test: 19 Million Hits In First Hour Sent Ticket Website

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India's 'internet' generation were left in the lurch when the website selling tickets for Sachin Tendulkar's 200th and final Test at the Wankhede Stadium from November 14 crashed in the very first hour when sales went online at 11 am on Monday. The website KyaZoonga.com was unable to respond to the massive online requests and according to its owner Neetu Bhatia, the site got 19 million hits for a paltry 6000 tickets available for the public. Attempts to open the site during the afternoon did not prove successful as well.

Till late on Monday evening, the website was slow and Bhatia told NDTV the problem will be fixed "in a couple of hours." Fans can only buy tickets online. KyaZoonga.com is the official ticket partner for the second India versus West Indies Test in Mumbai from November 14.

Apart from digital concerns, there was chaos at the Mumbai Cricket Association office at the Wankhede Stadium today as well as over 5000 fans gathered to purchase tickets. Fans began creating a commotion when they were told that tickets would only be sold online. However, the crowd was disbursed after police used force. Fans had come from all across Maharashtra and neighbouring states as well.

Kolhapur's Narayan Dev Gautam was one of the thousands of fans who have travelled to Mumbai to buy a ticket. "I've come from Kolhapur, and I have been waiting since yesterday morning, I haven't had anything to eat so far. We were told the ticket counters here (at Wankhede Stadium) would open at 8:30 am, but nothing of that sort happened. I have come only to watch Sachin, I wanted only two tickets", Narayan told NDTV.

MCA had earlier issued a statement that the online ticket sales for Tendulkar's 200th Test in Mumbai would start from Monday. Around 3,000 tickets will be available for sale, excluding the 1,500 special tickets priced at Rs 10,000. The price category for the online sale is -- Rs 500, Rs 1,000 and Rs 2,500. The Wankhede has the capacity to seat 32,000 people.

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Sachin Tendulkar's 200th Test: Travel website offers free cabs for spectators  

As the nation gears up for his last Test match, Musafir.com, an online travel website that has Sachin Tendulkar as a brand ambassador, has offered free cab rides to fans to Wankhede Stadium as a tribute to the Master Blaster.

 

Mumbai:  As the nation gears up for Sachin Tendulkar's last Test match, Musafir.com, an online travel website, has offered free cab rides to fans to Wankhede Stadium as a tribute to the Master Blaster. (Read: Sachin's 200th Test: 19 million hits in first hour sent ticket website KyaZoonga.com for a toss)

Tendulkar, also the brand ambassador of Musafir.com, will play his 200th Test match against West Indies in his hometown Mumbai from November 14 to 18.

The travel website has hired 200 TABcabs that will offer free rides from different junctions of the city to Wankhede Stadium free of cost during the five days of the match.

"On the occasion of his 200th Test, providing comfortable travel to cricket fans to witness his final Test match is our small way of saluting the Little Master," Sachin Gadoya, managing director, Musafir.com said, said in a statement.

"Though the sporting icon will be missed on the cricket field, we are proud to be associated with the legend as the brand ambassador of Musafir.com," he added.

The fans will have to show their match tickets to avail the free cab service.

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