Tickets of the Wills International Cup, which are scheduled to go on sale through the 13 branches of IFIC Bank in Dhaka and Narayanganj from October 20, will be sold on a ``first come first serve'' basis and everybody, including clients of the IFIC bank will have to stand in queue to purchase the tickets.
This was boldly declared by Abbas Uddin Ahmed, the managing director of the IFIC Bank, at a press conference at the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday.
Chaired by Brig Kazi Mahmud Hasan, the DG of BKSP and chairman of the Ticket and Seating Sub-committee, the briefing was also attended by BCB vice-president and member-secretary of the sub-committee Tanveer Mazhar Islam Tanna, BCB general secretary Syed Ashraful Haque and two executive vice-presidents of the IFIC Bank - Niaz Ahmed and Shafaat Ahmed Siddique.
Talking to a host of journalists, Mr. Ahmed, whose bank has earned the right to sell the Wills tickets by paying the board 30 lakh Taka, also said that there was no question of giving their clients any extra preference while selling the tickets.
He also said that adequate security measures would be ensured at the bank counters during the sale of tickets.
Brig Hasan revealed that tickets of the VIP Gallery, Club Houses (east and west) and Foreign Gallery, will only be sold at the Federation branch (FBCCI) of the IFIC Bank, while the gallery tickets will be available through their other twelve branches - Motijheel, Dhanmondi, Shantinagar, Islampur, Gulshan, Moulvi Bazar, Bangshal, Elephant Road, Kawran Bazar, Malibagh, Naya Paltan and Narayanganj. He also said that if the tickets were ready before schedule, they may go on sale from October 18 or 19.
Mr. Islam, replying to another question, said that preference will be given to those who will purchase tickets for all the eight matches. He also said that one may be allowed to buy a maximum of five tickets for a match. He hastened to add that things were however yet to be finalised.
There will be two counters at each branch - one for block tickets of all the eight matches and the other for particular matches.