new delhi as many as 12 million tickets have been sold for the commonwealth games beginning in birmingham on july 28 the organisers have said adding that the womens cricket match between india and pakistan has really caught the interest of the local publicwomens cricket is making its debut at the commonwealth games and india and pakistan will be clashing at the edgbaston on july 31the city is home to a substantial number of indian and pakistaniorigin peoplespeaking to pti birmingham games ceo ian reid said the semifinals and final tickets have already been taken while he expects a sell out crowd even for the india pakistan fixturei am a big cricket fan myself india are in the same group as pakistan so that has really caught the interest here in birmingham it is an iconic venue your mens team recently played here over the last few weeks so it would certainly be one of the highlights of the games reid saidthe semifinals and final tickets have already been sold out probably with the expectation that india and england will be there india and pakistan will be close to capacity we will see an uptick in ticket sales much closer to the event so i expect that indiapakistan game to be sold out soonmore than 5000 athletes will take part in the games which will be the biggest sporting event in the uk since the london olympics in 2012we have sold 12 million tickets for the event we expect that number to go up as we get closer to the games so by far the biggest sporting event in the uk since london 2012we will have about 45000 volunteers and paid staff working on the event it is a huge event for the region and the city reid addedall 72 commonwealth members have confirmed their participation in the multi sporting event