Pakenhamtrain
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The cheapest ticket was $30 up to $199.There were around 57,000 spectators at the MCG today. I don't know what tickets cost, but even at say £50 each (considerably less than in England) that would be a revenue of nearly £3 million for a single day, even before e.g. catering profits.
Other venues and days may attract smaller crowds, but I doubt English cricket could afford to pay anything like 10 days of compensation for that sort of loss of income. And why should spectators be denied their right to watch a match they've paid for?
I've no idea why you're so anti-English, but what you propose has never been done even for series far more unevenly balanced than this one. You're also wrong about 10th rate, England are 4th in the ICC test rankings, marginally behind Australia, though they may drop as a result of this series. Zimbabwe are 10th.
I had a $45 ticket which was level 4 around long on/off 3rd man/fine leg.
Catering well they have the nerve to charge 10 bucks for a beer!
They were expecting 70k yesterday. The Omicron variant scared people off I reckon.