New Delhi: Tickets for India matches to be held in Chennai, Delhi and Pune will go live on Thursday, August 31 from 8 PM (IST) onwards, the International Cricket Council said on Wednesday.
Tickets will be available on the official ticketing website tickets.cricketworldcup.com.
India is scheduled to lock horns with Australia on October 8 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. On October 11, India will be up against Afghanistan at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. On October 19, India will take on Bangladesh at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium (MCA) in Pune.
Tickets for other India fixtures at the World Cup 2023 will go on sale on September 1, 2 and 3.
On September 1, tickets for India matches in Dharamsala, Lucknow, and Mumbai will go live. On September 2, tickets for India matches scheduled in Bengaluru and Kolkata will go on sale while Tickets for match in Ahmedabad will go live on September 3.
Tickets for the semifinals and final will go live on September 15. ICC had earlier announced that tickets for India matches would be rolled out in a phased manner to avoid chaos.
The pre-sale exclusive window for Mastercard users for India matches at the ICC World Cup 2023 did not go according to plan.
The BookMyShow website had earlier crashed with many unable to get the tickets for India’s warm-up and main matches that went live at 6 PM (IST) on Monday. The site opened on Tuesday (August 30) for everyone to book India match tickets.
The open-to-all sale will begin today at 8 pm (IST) for the warm-up matches in Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram against England and Netherlands on 30 September and 3 October.
India will play England at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati their first warm-up fixture ahead of the home World Cup.
Earlier, tickets for the non-Indian matches in the 2023 World Cup began on August 24 (for Mastercard users), and August 25, for the general public.