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Asia Cup 2025: How are India-Pakistan ticket sales being affected due to absence of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma?

Updated on: 11 September,2025 03:14 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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The mega clash of the Asia Cup 2025 between Team India and Pakistan is scheduled to be played on September 14 at the Dubai International Stadium. In the Asia Cup 2025 opening match for Team India, they registered a dominating victory over the UAE by nine wickets

Asia Cup 2025: How are India-Pakistan ticket sales being affected due to absence of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma?

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The Asia Cup 2025 match between arch-rivals India and Pakistan is facing an unexpected fall in ticket sales, as the window is still open and the flow of ticket sales is at a slow pace. 

Despite introducing a single ticket format to make purchases more accessible, organisers haven't seen a significant boost in sales, with the numbers remaining sluggish ahead of the match. 


The mega clash of the Asia Cup 2025 between Team India and Pakistan is scheduled to be played on September 14 at the Dubai International Stadium.



According to an Emirates Cricket official, the ticket sales might be affected due to the absence of stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The duo announced their retirements from the format after Team India's triumph in the T20 World Cup 2024 against South Africa.

An official from Emirates Cricket told ANI, "We are surprised that flow of sales for India vs Pakistan is much low, till the time we sold out with lower stands only but the upper and top tear stands are still on sale, in the champions trophy for the same match we had sale on two times in a single day like we opened ticket window 2 pm and 4 pm and we were sold out that time in just less then 4 minutes, but this time craze is very dull, it might be it's because of absence of Rohit and Virat."

Fans have taken to social media to express disappointment over ticket sales, with some calling for single-match tickets to be released closer to the fixture date. However, premium seats remain prohibitively expensive, priced over Rs 2.5 lakh for just two tickets.

In the Asia Cup 2025 opening match for Team India, they registered a dominating victory over the UAE by nine wickets.

Their next game is against Pakistan, and the "Men in Blue" will then conclude their group stage matches with a game against Oman on September 19.

After the group stage, the continental tournament will proceed to the Super 4, where the top two teams from each group will qualify.

India's squad for the Asia Cup 2025: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

Pakistan's Squad for the Asia Cup 2025: Salman Ali Agha (c), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Waseem Jnr, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Mirza, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Sufyan Moqim.

(With ANI Inputs)

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