Crowd Watch: Will PCB's affordable tickets strategy boost crowd attendance for Pakistan-England 3-Test match series 2024?

[FearlessRoar]

The series is part of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25, with the first and second Test matches to be played at the Multan Cricket Stadium (MCS) from 7 to 19 October. The third Test match will be played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium (RCS) from 24 to 28 October.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced exciting ticket prices for the upcoming Test matches. To encourage fans to attend, entry to the General enclosures (Hanif Muhammad and Mushtaq Ahmed) will be free on the opening day of both Test matches in Multan. Additionally, premium enclosures (Miran Baksh, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, and Yasir Arafat) will also be free for the first day of the Rawalpindi Test.

For the Multan Tests, ticket prices start from PKR 50 for General enclosures on days two to four, increasing to PKR 100 on the fifth day. First-class enclosures will cost PKR 100 for the first four days and PKR 200 on the final day. Premium enclosures will be priced at PKR 200 for days one to four and PKR 300 on day five. VIP enclosures and PCB Gallery tickets will be available for PKR 300 and PKR 2,000, respectively, with the gallery ticket including lunch.

The ticket prices for the Rawalpindi Test are similarly attractive, with free entry to premium enclosures on day one. From day two onwards, premium enclosure tickets will cost PKR 200, increasing to PKR 300 for the remaining days.

Will this PCB strategy, featuring highly affordable ticket prices, be successful in drawing maximum crowd attendance to the stadiums?

 

[SportsWarrior]

At those prices they may not even recover ticket counter and online system expenses. Why not just make it free? Say 10k people attend over five days with a ticket price of 200, that will be total 20 lakh PKR which is around 7k USD. Three to four employees, online presence and the system charges will mostly take most of the revenue

 

[Cricket Warrior]

It's not just about the ticket prices. Nobody would prefer to watch this horrible performance of Pakistan in the scorching heat. Interest in cricket is dying here so unless they make entry free people still won’t go to watch any match.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

No. Test cricket in Pakistan died the day Pakistan lost 2-0 at home to Bangladesh

 

[Devadwal]

Ticket price start from 50 PKR ( 15 INR) .this is very very cheap so better to gave them free.

 

[BouncerGuy]

PCB tried the FREE-ENTRY method as well but it failed. people are not gonna come and watch cricket where 2 teams are just batting and batting and there is no real thrill.

Test cricket is a dying format for Pakistan fans.

 

[shokz1408]

No on 2 accounts, one Pakistan has been performing so badly a lot of people have lost interest. And secondly test cricket in Pakistan is not well attended generally.

 

[Major]

People willl show up in multan and pindi.

Only issue is that its going to be a bore fest. From this point on wards the crowd might start decreasing because in a pakistani test match there isnt much to do. There is no entertainment going on. Its like you aqre sitting in jail and being made forcefully to watch a game of cricket instead of having a fun environment of enjoyment.

They can go around increasing the stands and make the stadium bigger, but if fans cañt reallymingle and have fun, than watching crixket will become a bire fest, which it already is

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Had said it before and will say it again - People will not bother even if they get paid to come and watch.

Why would they come out to watch a team that gets hammered left, right and centre by all the teams that too at home.

 

[PakFan2010]

The schedule should have been sorted months ago.

Lots of England fans have decided not to travel.