People of Kolkata wait in scorching heat for hours to get tickets for IPL9

The IPL9 season will take off for the people of Kolkata when the Kolkata Knight Riders take on Delhi Daredevils in their first encounter on Sunday the 10th April. Therefore, hundreds of KKR fans queued up outside the Mohammedan Sporting Club counters to pick up their tickets.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 9 April 2016.

The tickets were being sold from 10am to 5 pm and, even at closing time, there were at least 60 people still in the queue. Some of them had been waiting for the better part of the afternoon, when the temperature outdoors had felt like 50 degrees Celsius.
The people in queue had fans who wanted to either buy their tickets or pick up those that they had purchased online. Some of them had taken leave from work while many others had slipped out of their workplaces on some pretext or reported sick. One fan had purchased his passage to Eden from an online portal and was in the queue from 4pm but unfortunately, the counters closed before he could collect his tickets and he would have to return next morning.


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