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Just as we as the members of this world moves towards a international economy, based on an open market philosophy, the International Cricket Council seems to be unfazed by it in the true sense. This is apparent from the ICC's attitude towards the sale of tickets online for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Cricket's head honchos have awarded monopoly rights for the sale of tickets to the event that begins on February 19, 2011 to a little known website, Kyazoonga.com.
I have been trying to solve the secret as to the ICC Council's reluctance to sell tickets for the event, because that is what this amounts to. Ticket sales to most sports events online are dispersed accross several websites to ensure that a maximal units of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 tickets get sold. Take for instance, the EPL that attracts a large number of people at grounds and in front of TV sets. It has not led to the administrators to award the right to sell the tickets to just one vendor, no matter what.}
I have come to the conclusion that the ICC Council must have been very happy with the scarce audiences in the ninth world cup in the Carribeand, and must have tried to emulate that "great success" in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. It makes a lot of money sense if you think about it. This is the best way to get people to come and watch matches played by cricket newbies such as Canada, Kenya, Holland and Ireland.
Speaking in Bangalore, Lorgat explained the police baton-charge on the crowd queuing outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium as, "unfortunate" but that "you have to accept that the rush for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 tickets is an indication of how popular this game is. Those are scenes we would not like to see, none of us would like to see that. It is also a fact that the local police and the local associations know best how to handle it. It is something we have no control over."
I salute the International Cricket Council for its infinite intelligence in deciding on this revolutionary way of popularising the exercise. No wonder we have so many countries' teams standing in queue to be allowed to play international cricket and later on, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 making the game the envy of promoters of other sports such as soccer, which has only about 200 teams wanting to play the event.
But sarcasm apart, the ICC Council is likely to get away with it, as the cricket world cup does not attract the kind of worldwide attention the Football World Cup does. If the policy was adopted by the governing body in soccer, it would have been infamous for being a big scam and the world media would have been all over their actions and the game would have suffered with a lot of bad publicity.
Under the situation, the game is played by so few nations, mainly former British colonies, that the rest of the world appears completely oblivious of any such tournament in the current events. ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is still the third most watched sporting event in the world.
