The fans were left furious and frustrated as the majority of them were unable to book tickets for the India vs Pakistan match in World Cup 2023 due to the poor service offered by BookMyShow.
BookMyShow is the ticketing partner of the BCCI for selling World Cup 2023. The first batch of tickets for India matches went live on Tuesday, August 29, evening at 6 PM sharp on the BookMyShow app and website.
However, most of the fans were first put up in a queue and then within a couple of minutes, the vendor showed that the tickets have been sold out. This created panic and chaos among the fans; many fans have also booked flight and hotel tickets at exorbitant prices around India vs Pakistan matchday, which is 14th October in Ahmedabad, and were optimistic that they will be able to get hold of tickets for the match.
However, with the first batch of tickets showing it’s sold out, fans were left feeling angry and annoyed with BookMyShow. The BookMyShow app got crashed, its website got hanged, and there was only irritation and anger seething from the fans for such a poor management by the BCCI and BookMyShow’s service.
Netizens took to Twitter to blast the BCCI and BookMyShow after not getting India vs Pakistan World Cup 2023 tickets:
Come on @bookmyshow, you knew the demand, you knew there’ll be lot of people will be trying to book, pretty appalling load handling on your platform. Indian cricket fans deserve a better ticket booking experience. Asking to wait on the same screen for hours 🙏🏻🙏🏻 #ICCWorldCup2023 pic.twitter.com/jiryhcPiFa
— Debaditya Sarkar (@debasarkar22) August 29, 2023
Continuous 2 hours waiting in queue 😶 and still not able to book 2 tickets 🎫 #INDvPAK
Life is really tough 😔 #ICCWorldCup2023 pic.twitter.com/E70fZ9WmEM
— Keshav 🫵 (@Keshav_killer) August 29, 2023
Thank you for being the most pathetic site to do booking #BookMyShow
Reached here and kicked out
Now have to wait for 14 hours
What shit logic! @bookmyshow @BCCI pic.twitter.com/gvE7TgPsJ2— Gitesh Jethwa (@jethwagitesh) August 29, 2023
#BookMyShow pic.twitter.com/8OYToXiPKI
— 🍺 (@anubhav__tweets) August 29, 2023
bookmyshow simply cannot handle the demand, when you know this was going to happen…#bookmyshow #BMS #CWC23 pic.twitter.com/2G6cKePYmO
— Nikhil Mane 🏏🇦🇺 (@nikhiltait) August 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/sigma__male_/status/1696518276095094784?s=20
BCCI, Jay Shah and #BookMyShow deserves this treatment –pic.twitter.com/zWlneAIusM
— Cricket🏏 Lover // ICT Fan Account (@CricCrazyV) August 29, 2023
India-Pakistan to contest in Asia Cup 2023
Meanwhile, India and Pakistan are set to resume their rivalry on the cricket field in the upcoming Asia Cup 2023. The two arch-rivals will meet on September 2 in Kandy for their Group A match. They are likely to proceed to the next round, knocking out Nepal, and would then meet again on September 10 in Colombo. The If the two team come top 2 in the Super 4 round, then they will meet in the Asia Cup final as well, on September 17.
The blockbuster World Cup 2023 match between India and Pakistan is slated for September 14 in Ahmedabad.
