KyaZoonga.com - Mumbai Cricket Association’s official ticketing partner - has reported that all the tickets made available to it for Sachin Tendulkar’s final Test appearance have been sold. On their twitter account, the company has announced: “All the tickets are sold out. That’s the bottomline.” This announcement comes a day after the website crashed due to traffic with 19.70 million hits in the first hour since sales were opened on Monday. The site notched up 19.70 million hits within an hour of the opening of ticket sales for Sachin Tendulkar’s 200th and final Test match, an official had said on Monday. [caption id=“attachment_1224581” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
Getting the tickets was not easy. Reuters[/caption] “The company witnessed an unprecedented amount of traffic on its website given the excitement around Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell match,” a KyaZoonga.com spokesperson said. “Some people experienced delays in accessing the ticketing site following a surge in traffic around 11 a.m. with a record 19.70 million hits within the first hour,” the spokesperson said. “The company said that if the traffic volumes continued at these high levels, “it could perhaps surpass the momentum witnessed even during past Olympic Games”. Only 6000 tickets were available for general fans - all through the website only.
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