Najam Sethi on PSL tickets for Karachi:-
"When the ticket sales began online, TCS claimed that more than 1,000,000 people tried to immediately access the tickets. I was myself very astonished to hear that more than a million people have lined up to get tickets."
"They said that our servers had crashed because no one had expectations like this. We thought that since there were 10 days left, people would buy them over the days slowly. "
"We had an idea about the demand for tickets in Karachi but we can't do anything as we don't have that much capacity in the stadium. If we had a capacity for 100,000 people then it wouldn't have been an issue but we can only house 30,000 people in the stadium. On top of that, there are some stands that have been ruled out because they are declared unsafe. "
"Most of the tickets that have been sold have been sold online. Cheaper tickets such as the 1000 rupees have already been sold out because of the high demand. The VIPs have bought tickets for 12,000 rupees and some are still available"
"No one was given free tickets. The CM has bought 500 VIP tickets, each worth 12,000 rupees. Only the CM and his wife were invited to the chairman's box and be our guests. The Sindh government has cooperated a lot which is really incredible. They have already spent several crore rupees on the renovation of the stadium and making roads."
