The cheapest ticket was $30 up to $199.
That's quite a bit cheaper than in England. Just for comparison, I looked at prices for next summer's test against South Africa at the Oval, cheapest for days 1 - 4 seem to be £75 (~$140 AUS) and the first three days are already sold out to members via a ballot.
Wish they'd all clear off.
The england team cant even catch covid correctly.
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So far so good at lunch. Anderson castles Smith, for a low score. However, Leach was paid lip service to bowl one over.
Root brought him on against left-handers, too. His weakness.
For England, those have quite literally been the only positives.
Every country has the right to its own rules, but Australia's have typically been stricter than England's throughout Covid, but seemingly not here. I believe if this happened in England that those who tested positive on the rapid tests (we call them lateral flow tests) plus their household would have to isolate until a negative PCR comes back. Until last week, England required 10 day isolation for all contacts of PCR confirmed omicron cases, but now it's daily testing after the case is confirmed. This seems quite lenient allowing players to take the field when family members tested positive and players may be incubating the virus. Indeed maybe reckless.
If this happened in New South Wales we wouldn't be talking cricket right now. NSW rules mean close contacts must isolate for 7 days. Victorian rules mean that for everyone other than household contacts need only to get a PCR test and isolate until result.
According to Aggers on the radio, the family members who tested positive are family of support staff not of players.
It might be classed as a casual contact then.
It takes a player with a particular mindset to come out and face an opening test attack in the first six overs, say. Oh, just realised he's been doing that virtually every innings for the last couple of years.....
Exactly, might as well make it official!
