Ashes Tickets Sold Out at Cardiff. 6000 more tickets available in January 2009
Monday, November 03, 2008 : The Ashes
Ashes tickets to the Cardiff 2009 Test are sold out. 6000 further tickets will be made available in January 2009. Glamorgan are charging between £50 and £85 so with demand massively outpacing supply, what sort of price could they have charged?
Headingley Carnegie are charging between £50-£75, Lords tickets are expected to be up to £90 and the Oval charged between £45-£95 for this summer's match against South Africa. Surely it won't be long before it will cost £100 to watch a day's Ashes cricket.
However, with Twenty20 expected to dominate the attentions of the cricket watching public over the next 10 years have we reached a peak for ticket prices for Test match cricket and the Ashes Series 2009 in particular. Demand for this years Ashes reflects the level of interest that spread throughout the nation in 2005. Then each closely fought Test was watched by millions on Terrestrial TV. With coverage being solely on Sky, will the country be equally gripped this time around?
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