Bitter rivals India and Pakistan rarely play each other on the cricket field, but when they do there is an unparalleled thirst for tickets.

The elite one-day international (ODI) tournament’s last winners, Pakistan, are playing host to their first ICC event since the 50-over World Cup in 1996. The world’s top eight men’s teams will compete in the 19-day tournament (February 19 until March 9), which will also see archrivals Pakistan and India face-off in the group stage.

Despite their dominant 15-1 combined record in ODI and T20 World Cups, India trail Pakistan 2-3 in their Champions Trophy head-to-head record. India skipper Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir,

The minimum price for the tickets of the India-Pakistan clash has been at 500 AED (11,863 Indian rupees) and went up to as high as 12,500 AED (2,96,595 Indian rupees)

Pakistan will host a first major multi-country cricket tournament in nearly three decades next week and its cricket chief is hopeful that a successful Champions Trophy will bring a flood of other such events.

The sixth edition of the Champions Trophy was narrowing down towards the semifinal stage. Of the eight teams split into two groups, four would make it to the knockouts. Two from each group would go through and two each would head home.