KKR ticket price hike Unquestionable kind of a remark was made by a senior source of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on the sidelines of IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s visit to Eden Gardens. — “We have no say over ticket prices for IPL 2010 matches in Kolkata, and why should we have a say? After all, they the team owners are here to do business, to make revenue. It’s only obvious that they will look for ways to make money, and they might as well want to raise ticket prices. It’s a sacrifice one has to make.”
No matter how stray or casual the remark is, it has come straight from a CAB high-up, and it sums up the way things are headed for Eden Gardens and its IPL honeymoon. Of course, someone has to make a big sacrifice as the hallowed stadium is undergoing complete overhaul. And who best to carry the cross than the paying spectator.
Starved of international cricket for two long years now, the average fan in Kolkata will be ready to pay almost anything when the IPL circus draws to town in March next year — this is what both Kolkata Knight Riders and the CAB have gauged. So why not make the fans — hungry for a piece of the action under Eden’s floodlights — the ones to take the burden of the sacrifice. Come March 14, when Eden hosts its IPL 2010 opener in the T20 carnival’s third edition, fans will be cheering on from the stands after shelling out ticket prices that will definitely be way above the current fares.
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