ICC Cricket World Cup, August 25, 2006...The only way to possibly get a ticket to the grand finale of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 now is by purchasing Hospitality or Tour & Travel packages.

All tickets, allocated for sale via Public Ticketing, to the Finals of the showpiece tournament have been sold. As anticipated, tickets to the Finals were in greatest demand during the recent Application Phase of Public Ticketing with every category - including the best seats at US$300 apiece and the US$200-per-person Party Stand - being oversubscribed. As a result, the allocation of Finals tickets had to be determined by a ballot.
 
However, fans still have a chance of seeing the stellar match - to be held at Kensington Oval in Barbados next April 28 - through package deals. Cricket Logistics 2007 has a limited supply of Tour & Travel packages, including match tickets, for the Finals. Likewise, some Hospitality packages remain.
 
General Manager of Cricket Hospitality 2007, Tom Roche, disclosed that fans can still buy Enclosure and Hamper packages for the Finals - but they should not delay.
 
"Fans need to be buying their packages now because if they wait too long there will be nothing left. This not only applies to the Finals but, to both Semi-Finals as well, because they are proving very popular. In fact, because of how the match schedule is structured, people are buying combinations of Hospitality packages to watch Super 8 matches in Barbados, then go to Saint Lucia or even Jamaica for a Semi-Final, and come back to Barbados for the Finals," he said, adding that Hospitality sales for the top three tournament matches have numbered in the thousands.
 
This news is borne
out by the fact that there are only a few Party Stand tickets for the Saint Lucia Semi-Final available via Public Ticketing while there are no Category 1 seats for the Jamaica Semi-Final and only limited Category 2, 3 and Party Stand tickets.
 
The Super 8 matches for April 15, 17, 19 and 21 in Barbados are "on the verge of selling out as far as tickets via Public Ticketing are concerned", reported ICC CWC 2007 Commercial Manager, Stephen Price. Various other Super 8 fixtures have also been "heavily sold", including those in Antigua & Barbuda and Grenada. The Group Stage clash between top seeds, Australia, and South Africa in St. Kitts & Nevis on March 24 is selling well too.
 
There was high demand for both Follow A Path and Venue Combination packages that were available during Phase 1 of Public Ticketing. These are no longer for sale.
 
"We're starting to see the Event come to life with the computation of numbers of fans attending various matches and the allocation of tickets. It's been a very exciting process but one that constantly reminds us of how much we all have to deliver across the region with thousands of people coming our shores for the Cricket World Cup," noted Price, reminding that fans from 124 countries applied during the first wave of Public Ticketing.
 
All applicants who provided an email address have now been emailed their respective notifications, indicating whether they were allocated all, some or none of the tickets for which they applied.
 
Phase 2 of Public Ticketing starts on Friday September 1, 2006, and will operate on a "first come, first served" basis which runs until Thursday November 30, 2006, with the remaining ICC CWC 2007 tickets being sold online (www.cricketworldcup.com) and at the Official Ticket Centres in the nine Host Venues across the Caribbean.