Grounds for concern
The ECB has admitted they lost out on £12million during last year's Ashes owing to their under-sized grounds:
Will
25-Feb-2013
The ECB has admitted they lost out on £12million during last year's Ashes owing to their under-sized grounds:
Thousands of spectators had to be turned away during the five-Test series, which England won 2-1. The venues - Lord's (capacity 30,000), Trent Bridge (15,350), Edgbaston (21,000), Old Trafford (19,000) and The Oval (23,500) - could have sold tickets twice over.
Now the ECB is putting together plans to help those Test-staging counties spend the millions required to increase their capacities to nearer that of the top Premiership football stadia.
ECB marketing chairman Giles Clarke admitted: "It just frightens me when I think of how much more money we could really have made last summer. We could have sold at least another 200,000 tickets. "
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