Indian cricket fan will swap kidney for ticket to Cricket World Cup (video)
Mar 30, 2011, 3:10 PM EDT
Sorry, only one per customer. It’s not clear whether Sanjay Kumar Sen here was able to secure a ticket for the big World Cup cricket semifinal between India and Pakistan today, but by all accounts it was a great match: India won. Great enough to give up one of your kidneys for a ticket? Depends how much you like cricket … or filtering blood, I guess.
Kumar Sen stood outside of Mohali’s Punjab Cricket Association stadium with his hand-printed sign for two days offering a kidney for a ticket. At the time he was interviewed in the YouTube video below, he said that he had had no offers.
Of course, unless Kumar Sen planned to watch the game with a long surgical scar on his side, what he was offering was really the promise of a kidney. I’ve done that many times, and then skipped out once the sporting event was over.
So many questions, and I don’t speak Hindi.
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India fan offers kidney for ticket to Pakistan Cricket World Cup semi-final [Metro UK]
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- john2397 - Mar 30, 2011 at 7:34 PM
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We Indian did win the semi-final world cup cricket match with Pakistan but that means TO MANY MILLION Indians that we won the WORLD WAR!! Similarly millions Pakistanis feel that they lost the World War. Still it was a game, nothing more. Rather than Pakistanis mourn for a match lost, they should take a deep breathe and think that in the last few years because of their religious fanaticism, they have lost much more in Pakistan itself and around the Globe. If they take their own national social, religious, political and economical condition so seriously as a cricket game in comparison with India and try their best to equate themselves with India, future of Pakistan will be much brighter and much prosperous.
