English fans planning to ambush Ashes tickets
Well, just one day to go until Ashes tickets are available for sale. Cricket Australia implemented a clever plan of scheduling a short period from June 1 to June 19 where only "members of the Cricket Australia family" could buy tickets. You had to provide an Australian address to sign up. So that should prevent all but the most determined UK fans from buying tickets during the initial period, right? Not according to the Daily Telegraph who expect 15,000 English fans to turn up to Day 1 of the Sydney Test. Day 1 tickets for all the Tests are expected to sell out in hours and subsequent days should sell out quickly too - I wouldn't be surprised to see Days 1 through 3 sold out for all Tests before June 19. In fact, I hope and expect so - as Ricky Ponting recently said, what we need is a sea of green and gold at our home Tests, not a legion of English fans chorusing Jerusalem (although I concede that would be kind of cool as well). It will be interesting to see how ticket sales proceed in the following weeks.
| Posted by JC on Wed 31 May |  1 comments |
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