No World Cup final tickets sold after web crash

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Not a single ticket for the  Cricket World Cup final to be held in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium  on April 2 was sold to the public after the official website  crashed, the ICC told Reuters today.
Tickets were put on sale at 0730 GMT on Monday via the  International Cricket Council’s (ICC) official ticketing partner  Kyazoonga.com, but the website buckled under the pressure of  huge traffic, sparking furious complaints from fans.
“We apologise to anyone who was trying to get on but these  are exceptional circumstances when 10 million people were trying  to get on the website at one time,” an ICC spokesman said.
“They (Kyazoonga) were working throughout the night to get  it up and running and not one ticket has been sold from the  quota we had.”
Of the 33,000 seats at the Wankhede, around 4,000 are  available to the public — 1,000 online while another 3,000-odd  will be sold later for those who queue up at stadium box  offices. The rest are distributed among the ICC and clubs  affiliated to the Mumbai Cricket Association.
This morning, the website was back up but had no  information as to when tickets would go back on sale.
A small message on the website trumpeted: “And we’re back!  All semis and finals tickets that are to go up on sale here are  intact. Please stay tuned for further updates.”
Fans continued to bombard the online ticket agency’s  Facebook page with angry comments for the second day running.
“These guys have not done squat and no update…wow..what a  bunch of bufoons (sic),” Ibaad Lari posted from Pakistan.
Another enraged fan, Rishi Dave, added: “I freakin woke up  in the middle of my sleep to check if the site was working or  not. since me being on Australian time i also checked the  website when most of you were sleeping, BUT same as before wudnt  (sic) do anything….”
“You guys are lucky you can go queue at stadium ! … i took  day off to book these tickets for final and i cant get on the  site !!!!” vented Sam Saleh.
The ICC said it was still trying to resolve the problems  before releasing new details on when the tickets would be  available.