Latent irregularities marked the first day of selling the World Cup's opening ceremony tickets at different Dhaka Bank branches in the city yesterday.
According to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) a total of 9,700 tickets have been put on sale and the tickets are being sold throughout 10 branches of the bank.
As of the filing of this report, it was yet unclear whether all the tickets for the opening ceremony had been sold out.
"We have reserved the tickets open till the date of the opening ceremony, but based on the response, I think the tickets will be sold out by tomorrow [Monday], if they haven't been before," said BCB's Ticket and Seating Committee chairman, GS Hasan Tamim state that he had yet to receive official confirmation from Dhaka Bank about how many tickets had been sold.
But many in queue were left confused at a sudden U-turn by the Dhaka Bank authorities, who went back on their innovative advertised agreement of allowing a maximum of two tickets per individual.
"I lined up since 11:30pm last night [Saturday] to get two tickets for my parents," said Selim, a 25-year-old student who had queued up at the Gulshan Branch. "But once within the bank, I was aware that I would only be able to buy one, instead of the two tickets that was advertised."
"Far more people turned up than we had possible. We were only given 400 tickets and thus were advised by the police ADC that due to security reasons it would be best if we appeased a larger number of people rather than giving two to each."
"We handed them about 10,000 tickets and we only told them that one person can get a maximum of two tickets, nothing else," said Tamim.
Dhaka Bank's administrative vice-president, Azad Shamsi however stated they had received only 7,000 tickets from BCB and recommended that they had distributed the tickets evenly across the ten branches.
Further attempts to contact him over telephone proved futile.
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