APPROXIMATELY 8,500 tickets for today’s historic Hero Caribbean League Qualifier here have been sold, a source close to the local organising committee has confirmed.

The Providence National Stadium will play host to one qualifier and one eliminator match of the six-team tournament tonight and tomorrow.

And in light of this development, the CPL has offered persons buying tickets for today’s game a 25 per cent discount on Wednesday’s tickets as well.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors play the Trinbago Knight Riders tonight while the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots will play the Jamaica Tallawahs on Wednesday.

Chief Operations Officer (COO), Pete Russell told a media conference this morning, “If you buy a ticket for tomorrow [today’s game] you get 25 per cent off the game on Wednesday. We want to show Guyana off to the world in all its glory,”

“You’ve [Guyana] done a brilliant job so far in the first five games and we want to feel the same for the next two. We know that obviously tomorrow night [tonight] will be packed, but we also want the same on Wednesday because we think that game would be equally exciting.”  

Up to 18:00 last evening, Wednesday’s game had sold just over 45 per cent of the total available seats.

Meanwhile, Chronicle Sport sought a comment from the CPL over claims on social media by fans who had urned up to the game, only to be told their seats had been taken.

Head of PR and Communications, Peter Miller contended that the matter was ‘difficult to comment on without the opportunity to investigate it further to find out exactly what happened.’

He promised an investigation.

According to the post, the patron purchased tickets online but when he and members of his party turned up their seats were already occupied. And, when the patron sought the support of the CPL staff, they were told that the CPL made a ‘mistake’ in printing tickets and that the seats were already reserved for someone else.

The matter was not resolved even after the intervention of a senior staff member and this prompted the patron to request a reimbursement, but was, however, told that the tickets are non-refundable. (ssokram@guyanachronicle.com)