IPL 2023 Playoff Tickets: Fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Tickets for two IPL 2023 playoffs at the MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk) in Chennai will only be sold online. With reports of long overnight queues, BCCI and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) have decided to sell tickets only online. Chepauk will host Qualifier 1 and Eliminator on May 23 & 24.

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IPL 2023 Playoffs tickets update :

No offline tickets for QUALIFIER 1 and ELIMINATOR matches in Chennai
All tickets will be sold online.

Date and price details shall come out soon.

— All About Cricket (@allaboutcric_) May 15, 2023

IPL 2023 Playoffs Schedule:

• Qualifier 1: Chepauk, Chennai, May 23, Tuesday at 7:30 PM
• Eliminator: Chepauk, Chennai, May 24, Wednesday at 7:30 PM
• Qualifier 2: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, May 26, Friday at 7:30 PM Final: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, May 28, Sunday at 7:30 PM

Black-marketing of tickets has been high for Chepauk matches

Most of these women are getting paid Rs 800 to stand in queue and pass on tickets to black market racketeers who sell Rs 1,500 tickets for 5000 and Rs 2,000 ticket for an excess of 6,500. pic.twitter.com/Xni0d8Tjqj

— Venkata Krishna B (@venkatatweets) May 12, 2023

As reported, black-marketing of tickets has been high for Chepauk matches. With online tickets getting sold out in seconds, fans turned to offline tickets. However, there, fans paid homeless, students and daily wagers to stand in queues and buy tickets. In return, those daily wagers earn Rs 500-1000 per ticket.

IPL Playoff Tickets: Tickets through proxies:

As getting tickets online has been next to impossible due to high demand, fans turned to offline sales at the stadium box office. However, most of the time, fans had to shell out 2-3 times extra to procure them.

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Fans queue up from 8:30 PM a day before

Around 3 am, the police put barricades on either side of Victoria Hostel Road to prevent people from joining the queue. Some of them who couldn't enter the queue were left with no option to buy these Rs 1500 tickets for Rs 5,000. Also, police barred reporters from clicking pics. pic.twitter.com/JtNIOlGCG0

— Venkata Krishna B (@venkatatweets) May 12, 2023

As reported by Indian Express, fans queued up from 8:30 PM a day before. However, not all of them were fans. Many were proxies who make a profit to procure tickets for the actual fans.

Black Marketing on Social Media:

However, while selling tickets online solves one part of the problem, it does not remedy black marketing. Tickets have been sold with a 3-5 times margin through social media platforms, especially Twitter, Facebook, and Telegram. However, the platforms have done nothing to stop such promotion.

Facebook marketplace which has become a den for such black marketing

A customary search on Twitter, Google, and Facebook showed up hundreds of posts selling tickets at exorbitant prices. Facebook marketplace which has become a den for such black marketing had tickets being sold at over Rs 13000 (Original price 5,000).

Social media platforms have limited such posts

However, apart from some customary arrests, police have done next to nothing to stop them. Furthermore, social media platforms have limited such posts or taken them down, enabling black marketers to make hefty profits and take advantage of players’ passion.