Seven people arrested while black marketing the match tickets in Hyderabad

Police have arrested a gang of seven persons in Hyderabad during black marketing the tickets of the third T20I on Friday. India and Australia are set to lock horns for one final time in the decider of the T20 International series. The game will also mark an end to the tour of Australians on which they have found very little success. Though they played their best game on Tuesday which saw them beating the hosts in Guwahati in front of more than 38000 people.

India dominated the ODI series and won by 4-1 which also took them to the top of the ICC ODI rankings. However, they had to win all their games in the shortest format to climb to number 2 after the series against the team from down under which is not possible now. But both the teams will now look to win the last game which promises to be a cracker of a contest. The visitors would love to leave the country with a trophy in their hands by winning the T20 leg of their tour.

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The Task Force of Hyderabad City Police busted the racket of seven people who were selling the match tickets at higher prices. According to reports, Sai Naveen Kumar (21), Narender Yadav (27), Mohammed Saddam (21), Dev Kumar (21), Mohammed Riyaz (30), P. Praveen (25), Mohammed Afroz (24) were arrested when they were selling tickets for Cricket match worth Rs. 1000 for Rs. 3000. Police seized 24 tickets and Rs. 24,810 cash from the accused people. They were later handed over to Begumpet police for further action.

This is not the first time, the tickets were being sold at higher prices ahead of the game in India. Earlier it was reported that black marketing was done during the ODI series in Kolkata which hosted the second game on September 21. Few women were found selling the tickets in black outside Calcutta Sports Journalists Club, a few yards from the Eden Gardens stadium. They were found saying that they were handed a bunch of tickets by a group of unknown people.