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Tickets for the Coca-Cola Asian Test Championship finale and three-nation one-day series will go on sale from March 9 through eleven branches of Al-Baraka Bank.

The Asian Test will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium from March 12 followed by the tri-series, involving Zimbabwe, Kenya and hosts Bangladesh, which starts at the same venue a week later.

The branches are as follows: Dilkusha, Principal Office, Kawran Bazar, VIP Road, Gulshan, Mirpur Road, Imamganj, Islampur, Bangshal, Narayanganj and IDB booth at Agargaon.

For the convenience of spectators, the Dilkusha branch will remain open on the first day of the Test from 8 in the morning till 12 noon.

The rate of tickets will be the same for the Test and a match for the tri-nation tournament. Only AC and non AC hospitality boxes will be sold for the entire Test final and the tournament while the other tickets will be for each day.

Rates of the tickets:

Hospitality Box (AC) - 1,25,000/-
Hospitality (non AC) - 1,00,000/-
Club House (West) - 400/-
Club House (East) - 350/-
VIP - 700/-
Special Enclosure (for players and officials) - 50/-
International Gallery - 300/-
Gallery - 50/

There will be 24 non AC and 20 AC hospitality boxes for sale. However, talking to the local press during a briefing yesterday, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) general secretary Syed Ashraful Huq said that some boxes would be reserved for Asian Cricket Council (ACC), BCB and other sponsors.

There will be 350 tickets for the western Club House while the Club House East will accommodate 1400 spectators. In the VIP Gallery, there will be 375 tickets while the International Gallery will contain 2200 tickets. Besides, there will be 1400 seats in the Special Enclosure apart from 30000 gallery tickets.

According to the BCB general secretary, 2000 tickets will be distributed free of charge to the school children everyday during the five-day final.

AF Rafiqul Islam, the chairman of Al-Baraka Bank, Anwar Ahmed, executive president of Al-Baraka and BCB vice-president Tanveer Mazhar Islam were also present.