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World Final Was Not Sold Out

The 2011 World cup in Mumbai may have been the hottest ticket in town ,with reports of individual tickets selling for as much as $10,000 on the black market, but according to the Mumbai cricket Association,the final was not actually sold out.A report prepared by the association shows that 405 tickets remained unsold,ESPNcricinfo understands.These include 96 tickets in the Sunil Gavaskar stand (lower) at a cost of Rs1,500 each.The total value of the unsold tickets was Rs 73.4 lakhs..

                                    The news that the association was not able to sell all tickets comes as a surprise given prior reports of the match being sold out and the thriving black market that arose around the game.A day before the final,even RR Patil,the home minister for Maharashtra,said "all the tickets have been sold".

Demand for tickets for the final soared to the point that the official ticketing website-Kyazoonga.com-

was crashed amid a scramble for 1,000 tickets that were offered online..
While the report did not unearth the evidence suggesting that ICC official tour operators were responsible for black marketing of tickets...