Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Karachi
Date: 18 February, 2009(Wednesday)

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be introducing a new idea to award cash prizes to the spectators coming to watch the two-test series against Sri Lanka to attract crowds to the longest version of the game. The first test will be played from February 21 at Karachi followed by the second from March first at Lahore.

"We have signed a sponsorship deal with Paragon City who will be providing us altogether Rs 800,000 for this purpose and we are delighted that now spectators coming to the stadiums will be getting cash incentives," said Director Marketing, Pakistan Cricket Board, Aamir Sohail while talking to APP.

Giving details of the sponsorship deal, he said, Paragon city will provide two cash awards each of Rs 25,000 for the first four day of both the test matches as 'Spectator of the Day'.

"We are working on new lines to fill the stadiums which are empty during the test matches and we firmly believe with such incentives we will be able to have some crowd at Lahore and Karachi," said the former Pakistan captain who is also the director of National cricket academy.

Aamir Sohail said in addition to these prizes, a pumper prize of Rs 200,000 will also be given to a lucky winner who will be the 'Spectator of the match'.

"I think fans of the game will like these ideas and all of them have the equal chance to win through a lucky draw at the end of every day play and on the final day of a test match," he said.

"We will be placing 15 drop boxes at each venue and through them we will be having a draw giving on the spot cash prizes," he said. Director Marketing said PCB is endeavouring to facilitate the spectators who will be coming to the stadium to watch the test matches. "We are confident of success of this idea and we look forward to make it a regular feature in every test match in future as well."

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I wouldn't be surprised to have 50,000 entries coming out of those 15 boxes when the total attendance may hardly reach 9000 but not a bad idea by PCB.

Good idea.

Really bad idea. The stadium will be full of *-**-**-**-**-*s who don't even care about the game.

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Originally Posted by CR7

Really bad idea. The stadium will be full of *-**-**-**-**-*s who don't even care about the game.

duude you pay for the cricket game..and i think its a great idea....will bring more crowd IN to watch whole game

...and the enterance should be free!

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btw, what is a pumper prize??

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Originally Posted by Lipton

duude you pay for the cricket game..and i think its a great idea....will bring more crowd IN to watch whole game

Oh really? I thought it was for free?!?
.. Obviously it does dude, but if people didn't wanna go watch the game before, and now would because they can get to go home with money, CLEARLY they're doing it for the wrong reasons!

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Originally Posted by CR7

Oh really? I thought it was for free?!? .. Obviously it does dude, but if people didn't wanna go watch the game before, and now would because they can get to go home with money, CLEARLY they're doing it for the wrong reasons!

ITS ALL MARKETING and promotion.....part of the business...PCB wants to make sum money from Ticket sales......Good reasons or BAD reasons.....PCB doesnt care about that crap...all they wana see is REVENUEE$$$$$$

since Afridi isnt playing, I doubt they will be able to sellout the games even with this promotion.

ab ghar mein khana nahi pakey ga, aur bachey school nahi jaingay..

ab saarey shohar kaam par jatay huay apni biwi aur bachon ko stadium chor jayengay, to get in as many coupons in the raffle box as possible.

Originally Posted by Lipton

ITS ALL MARKETING and promotion.....part of the business...PCB wants to make sum money from Ticket sales......Good reasons or BAD reasons.....PCB doesnt care about that crap...all they wana see is REVENUEE$$$$$$

.. Do I give a shit? It doesn't make it right just because PCB want to make money.

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Just to add to the info of members here.

Tony Cozier or someone was discussing the same thing today during commentary. WI board has setup a prize money of some dollars to attract crowd in Eng vs WI test match.
So, were we quick to copy? or is it something generally spreading?

Anyway, hope it pans out good.

great idea by pcb.... finally a good move by them and if still karachi ppl dont come i think they should be stripped off future matches

Ok WI isn't doing anything as such, my previous info was wrong.

Nice Idea by the PCB , the team hasn't got any big star players , so the people won't care
But this will force them to come.

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