Cricket Australia cancels 650 Ashes tickets
I was somewhat surprised to learn Cricket Australia have cancelled 650 Ashes tickets. Apparently they hired private investigators to identify scalpers and were able to pinpoint a number of breaches where scalpers bought more than the allocated 10 tickets per person. Don't get me wrong - this is great news. I'm just surprised because I thought their original promise to clamp down on scalpers was an empty threat. As it is, 650 tickets is a drop in the ocean - if the criteria was buyers who obtained more than 10 tickets each, this would amount to only a handful of scalpers.
Meanwhile, the first 4 days for Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Perth are sold out. Melbourne only has a handful of tickets left for days 3 and 4. Considering the MCG has a capacity of 95,000, if the match goes the distance, you're looking at nearly half a million to a single Test. Cricket Australia wouldn't dream of those kinds of numbers over an entire Test series. And when you consider the revenue to be made from TV advertising will most likely dwarf the ticket sales, I can't help but once again picture Cricket Australia's boss James Sutherland writhing on a bed of money.
| Posted by JC on Fri 23 Jun |  1 comments |
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