All tickets for the women's cricket at the Asian Games have sold out, organsiers said on Wednesday, as the sport attempts to secure a foothold in China.
All tickets for the women's cricket at the Asian Games have sold out, organsiers said on Wednesday, as the sport attempts to secure a foothold in China.
Cricket may be a little-known and little-understood sport in the country, but that has done nothing to hold back ticket sales at the Games in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, which officially begin on Friday.
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"There's not a single ticket available for sale for the women's cricket," Husain Al-Musallam, director general and technical director of the Olympic Council of Asia, told a press conference.
"We hope to spread cricket all over Asia."
Cricket's induction at the Games came after the International Cricket Council identified China as one of the major new markets along with the United States for the development of the sport.
The women's cricket begins on Saturday while the men get underway on November 20.
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