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World Cup cricket to keep taxis off Australia's roads
Apr 1, 2011, 6:03 GMT
Sydney - Cricket fans in India held up signs offering a kidney in return for a ticket to watch the recent semi-final against Pakistan.
Australians were warned Friday that they might have to do the same to get a taxi when India take on Sri Lanka in the World Cup final in Mumbai, India.
Melbourne taxi driver Vinny Singh said he knows at least 100 drivers who plan to be off the road and in front of their television sets Saturday night.
Getting a cab 'will be next to impossible because I think that a lot of Indian students who are driving cabs in the night as a part-time job will be having a day off,' he told the national broadcaster ABC.
Almost half of Melbourne's taxi drivers are Indian, many of them students.
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