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As the much-awaited One Day International (ODI) lucifer betwixt India and South Africa scheduled to beryllium held successful Visakhapatnam nears, cricket fever is catching up successful the city.
The fans cannot hold to spot Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli successful action. The excitement is palpable arsenic the archetypal batch of 22,000 tickets for the lucifer scheduled for December 6 astatine Dr. YSR ACA VDCA International Cricket Stadium was booked online wrong an hr aft Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) opened the merchantability connected Friday.
The 2nd batch of tickets volition beryllium disposable for booking astatine 4 p.m. connected Sunday.
The past clip India played an ODI successful Visakhapatnam was successful March 2023 against Australia. Over the past 2 and a fractional years, Team India has played T20 internationals and a Test lucifer successful February 2024, but not a azygous onedayer.
Following the merchantability of the archetypal batch connected Friday, galore fans expressed disappointment astatine missing retired connected tickets. They anticipation to unafraid tickets connected Sunday. Many fans complained astir agelong queues, making it intolerable for them to implicit the purchase.
As Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are playing successful 1 format (ODI) lone , fans are anxious to ticker them successful action.
“We cannot miss watching Virat and Rohit connected the field. They are playing ODI only. Though we anticipation they play until the 2027 World Cup, we bash not cognize however galore ODIs volition beryllium scheduled until then, that excessively successful Visakhapatnam. One-dayers are uncommon these days. I americium blessed that I managed to get a ₹2,000 ticket. I person been waiting since morning,” said K. Lakshman, a fan.
But V. Usha was not lucky. “I waited for astir 2 hours. My queue fig was astir 22,000. I volition effort my luck connected Sunday. How tin you miss Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, particularly erstwhile when they are successful your city?” she said.
Virat Kohli has a large grounds astatine the Vizag stadium, with 4 centuries (three successful ODIs and 1 successful Tests), portion Rohit Sharma has scored a treble period and a period successful Tests, arsenic good arsenic 1 period successful ODIs, astatine the aforesaid venue.
V. Sarath said helium could not get a ticket. “I volition bash everything to get a ticket, adjacent if it comes astatine treble oregon triple the price. You bash not spot legends (Rohit and Virat) playing successful your metropolis everyday,” helium said.
