Phase 1 of ICC T20 World Cup 2024 ticket sales began on February 22, following a public ballot window. In this window, limited numbers of tickets have been made available for sale on a first-come, first-served basis.

In just 10 days, the tickets have made it onto the resale market, where increased demand for them, especially for the blockbuster clash between India and Pakistan, led to prices exploding. The ticket prices are rivaling that of NBA or Major League Baseball.

As per a report in USA Today, tickets for two of India's matches - against Pakistan on June 9 in New York and against Canada on June 15 in Florida, both sold out, are selling for twice the original rate on resale websites, such as StubHub and SeatGeek.

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According to the ICC website link facilitating the sale of tickets in the first phase, the minimum price of a ticket was INR 497, while the most expensive ticket was INR 33148 without taxes.

But on the resale websites, prices of VIP tickets were offered close to INR 33.15 lakhs. Now, if you add the platform fees, it totals INR 41.44 lakhs.

On StubHub, the cheapest ticket for the match between India and Pakistan is INR 1.04 lakhs. on SeatGeek, the most expensive ticket for that June 9 clash is INR 1.86 crore, including the platform fee. Viagogo had displayed the most expensive ticket for the game at INR 57.15 lakhs.

The report further revealed that the average price of tickets for the World Series was INR 91,175, courtside tickets for the NBA Finals were almost INR 20 lakhs, and that of Super Bowl 58 was INR 7.45 lakhs.

(Hindustan Times inputs)