Australian buying frenzy for Ashes Test tickets
AFP, June, 2006
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SYDNEY (AFP) — Tickets for this year's Australia-England Ashes Test cricket series were snapped up at a rate of ten per second when sales opened here, Cricket Australia said.
CA said tickets for the five Ashes Tests had sold faster than for any other cricket series held here, with more than 160,000 bought on the first day.
The much-anticipated Ashes series gets underway in Brisbane on November 23.
Despite the huge demand, tickets were still available with 41 days of cricket on offer, CA said.
CA has set aside a minimum number of 635,500 tickets for the so-called Australian Cricket Family out of an overall total of 720,000.
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Members of the ACF had first chance to buy tickets as CA intended to give priority to Australian fans ahead of English supporters at the five Tests.
To qualify as ACF members, fans must have, ...
