February 15, 2006	Wednesday	Muharram 16, 1427

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KARACHI, Feb 14: The city’s cricket-crazy fans must prepare themselves for another mad scramble for Sunday’s fifth and final ODI tickets when they go on sale from Thursday at only six branches of Bank Alfalah.

But the Karachi fans will be greatly disappointed to learn that the highest denomination tickets worth Rs2,500 have already sold out on the Internet and through corporate sale.

Therefore, they would not have the luxury of watching the last ODI between Pakistan and India at National Stadium from the Hanif Mohammad, Javed Miandad and Fazal Mahmood enclosures.

The bank’s branches located at Landhi, Defence, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Haidery, Sharea Faisal and the city’s main branch, have been supposedly entrusted by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) with the task of selling just 22,391 tickets for the eagerly-awaited match.

PCB has advised the people that the tickets in the denominations of Rs1,500, 500, 300 and 100 would be sold on ‘first-come-first-served’ basis at the designated branches between 9.30am and 4.30pm.

Already the PCB and the concerned bank have come in for a lot of criticism for the manner in which sale of tickets was handled in the previous one-day matches.