Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (IANS) The tickets for the opening ceremony of the men's hockey World Cup to be held at Kalinga Stadium on November 27 and World Cup Celebrations on November 28 at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack were sold out in just a few hours after going live online.

In view of public demand, the ticket sales for both the events went live on Tuesday.

Within a few hours, all tickets for both the events were sold out. The online redemption of the tickets for the opening ceremony will be from Thursday at the Kalinga Athletics Stadium while the redemption centres in Cuttack for the World Cup Celebrations event will be announced later.

Music Maestro A.R. Rahman will be performing both at the opening ceremony and at the World Cup Celebrations event. Many other prominent Bollywood celebrities will attend both the events.

--IANS tri/sed