The Australian Cricket Flop

The morning after the first day of Ashes ticket-selling and the papers are full of sob stories from Cricket Australia’s "family". In The Age there is a cartoon about how to prove you're a member and an interview with an English supporter who put his tickets on EBay.

Under the headline Barmy Army's guerilla ticket raid, Peter Lalor analyses the situation for The Australian while Queensland’s The Courier-Mail covered the fiasco in its editorial C’mon CA, c’mon.

In Melbourne the tabloid Herald Sun looks at why the series was not protected by scalping laws and Adelaide’s Advertiser reports of more disappointed fans. The West Australian focused on the the speed of the ticket sales and online scalping.