IPL 2016 Final: Fake Tickets being sold in Bengaluru

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With the IPL 9 final just hours away, fake tickets sold for the game are making the headlines instead of the game between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. The cricket fans all over the world are expecting a mouth-watering encounter between Warner and Kohli, and with the home team in the final the demand for a ticket to the final is at the peak. The black marketers have grabbed the opportunity and are selling tickets at price 5 times more than the original price of tickets.

There have been reports of Bangalore cricket fans paying around Rs.5000 for a Rs.700 ticket to catch a glimpse of their favourite team in the final. The Royal Challengers are in top form going into the final and people in Bangalore are confident about their team’s chances in the final. Banglore chasing their maiden IPL title are the favourites to lift the trophy and the fans, understandably, do not want to miss out on this historic occasion.

With the tickets for the final being already sold out people without a ticket are resorting to buying them in the black market. The Chinnaswamy Stadium can only accommodate 40,000 spectators, which has also helped the cause of the black marketers giving them a perfect high demand, less supply scenario.

The reports seeping out of Bangalore are that some black marketers are selling fake tickets to the cricket fans who are willing to pay whatever sum the sellers are demanding from them. Coloured photocopies of the original tickets are being sold to cricket fans by the black marketers in the names of a ticket for the final. People are already paying 5 times more than the printed price and the prices are supposed to increase further as the start of the final gets nearer.

19,000 tickets were to be sold from the venue and officials believe the buyers of these tickets will be more in number and the black marketers are holding back tickets so that they get even a better than the going rate in the black market.

"We have taken measures to stop the selling of tickets in black. Our teams will be alert even on match day near the [M Chinnaswamy] stadium to nab such culprits," Sandeep Patil DCP (Central) has been quoted by the Bangalore Mirror.

So if you are in Bangalore and are planning to go to the final with a ticket not brought from official sources make sure to double check your ticket.