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**ddb** · (06-05-2012)

Quote:@GeorgeDobell1: Tickets sales at Edgbaston better than has been suggested. 1st 3 days are 16,500, 17,000 and 14,800. Would fill most non-London grounds.

Warleybear · 05-06-2012, 03:35 PM

Rejoice.... At least I won't be there on my own...... Just got to hope the weather forecast improves a tad.

map82 · 05-06-2012, 05:52 PM

Have a spare ticket for Thursday £40 in Hollis stand if anyone interested!!

map82 · 05-06-2012, 05:52 PM

Have a spare ticket for Thursday £40 in Hollis stand if anyone interested!!

Warleybear · 05-06-2012, 06:55 PM

(05-06-2012 03:27 PM)ddb Wrote:
Quote:@GeorgeDobell1: Tickets sales at Edgbaston better than has been suggested. 1st 3 days are 16,500, 17,000 and 14,800. Would fill most non-London grounds.

Thinking about this, it confirms that the first three venues to get a major game should be Lords, The Oval and Edgbaston....

Terry · 05-06-2012, 06:55 PM

Slightly different perspective on ticket sales from Paul Bolton here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket...-down.html
Taking George's figures plus the 4,000 Paul Bolton mentions for the Sunday, that makes about 52,000 advance sales. Mr. Povey says: "We have got 60,000 as our target. In ticket sales terms that is between £300,000-£400,000 off where you want it to be."
Overall, for a dead game against a poor team, those sales don't look too bad. But I guess the debt mountain that we have to re-pay has upped the stakes.
Let's hope that the Australians really don't go on strike because a sell-out one-day international could make all the difference.

Warleybear · 05-06-2012, 09:07 PM

52,000 sounds good for a dead rubber ...........

hhbear · 06-06-2012, 12:12 AM

(05-06-2012 05:52 PM)map82 Wrote: Have a spare ticket for Thursday £40 in Hollis stand if anyone interested!!

Would you accept adults-for-a-quid for it?

stingray · 06-06-2012, 07:50 AM

(05-06-2012 06:55 PM)Warleybear Wrote:
(05-06-2012 03:27 PM)ddb Wrote:
Quote:@GeorgeDobell1: Tickets sales at Edgbaston better than has been suggested. 1st 3 days are 16,500, 17,000 and 14,800. Would fill most non-London grounds.

Thinking about this, it confirms that the first three venues to get a major game should be Lords, The Oval and Edgbaston....

Totally agree. When I bought a couple of tickets last week for day 1 there was pretty limited choice about where to sit so I think the doom merchants are a bit off mark about ticket sales. We should have everything crossed for fair weather so that Edgbaston can showcase what a great test venue it is.