{"id":10086,"date":"2022-08-18T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:55:34","slug":"cricket-fans-spend-up-to-aed1000-for-pakistan-india-match-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/cricket-fans-spend-up-to-aed1000-for-pakistan-india-match-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket fans spend up to AED1,000 for Pakistan-India match in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fans spend up to AED1,000 for Pakistan-India match in Dubai. An India vs Pakistan cricket match is always a huge deal for residents of both countries and fans go to any extremes for tickets.<\/p>\n<p>On August 28, a highly-anticipated India vs Pakistan match, which is part of the Asia Cup, is set to take place in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets went on sale Wednesday morning, reported Khaleej Times, but this time there was a twist to buying them. Fans who wanted to purchase passes for the India-Pakistan game had to also get tickets to two other matches of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/\">Khaleej Times<\/a> reported the experiences of some fans who live and work in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Shoaib Khan, who lives in Al Ain, told the media outlet that he used four computers simultaneously to log in to the Platinum List website for the passes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was lucky that I managed to buy the passes within 20 minutes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khan spent half of his monthly grocery budget on the ticket. He paid Dh986 for the passes \u2014 which is over PKR57,000 right now.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-must-protect-test-odi-formats-amid-rise-of-t20-leagues-dev.html\">ICC must protect Test &amp; ODI formats amid rise of T20 leagues: Dev<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He said he did not plan on watching the other games and would give the passes to friends or family members. Khan was excited to go with his &#8220;lovely wife&#8221; to witness the match for the first time in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Another fan, Shehzada Yousuf, said he waited two and half hours in the queue to get one premium ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Yousuf, who spent Dh1,038 (PKR60,600) on the ticket said it &#8220;was worth every penny for that experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An India vs Pakistan match happens once in a blue moon,&#8221; Yousuf said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would celebrate at the end of the match regardless of who won because his mother was Pakistani and his father Indian.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Hafeez, a Dubai resident, got his tickets in the first batch. However, he waited in the queue for eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>He said he logged in at 10am and the sale went live at 6pm. Hafeez added that he had &#8220;just&#8221; 400 people ahead of him waiting for the ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket fans spend up to AED1,000 for Pakistan-India match in Dubai. An India vs Pakistan cricket match is always a huge deal for residents of both countries and fans go to any extremes for tickets. On August 28, a highly-anticipated India vs Pakistan match, which is part of the Asia Cup, is set to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1687,186,139,138],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-khaleej-times","tag-dubai","tag-india","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}