Australia’s all-conquering ladies’s cricket workforce are set to play in entrance of a record-breaking Edgbaston crowd in opposition to England through the Women’s Ashes, with nearly 15,500 tickets offered for the T20 worldwide on July 1.
The 15,187 who got here to Lord’s to look at final yr’s ODI in opposition to India represented the largest-ever English crowd for a ladies’s match outdoors of a World Cup, however a hotly-anticipated sequence in opposition to Meg Lanning’s world champions has set new ranges of demand.
Tickets gross sales in Birmingham have already exceeded the earlier excessive watermark, with the bottom reaching over 75 per cent capability greater than three months earlier than recreation day.
The match is the primary of three 20-over contests, sandwiched between a five-day Test at Trent Bridge and three ODIs in a multi-format super-series that runs parallel with the boys’s Ashes.
“The atmosphere at Edgbaston is always special, but the prospect of being cheered on by up to 20,000 fans is something else,” stated England bowler Issy Wong, who performs her home cricket for Central Sparks and Birmingham Phoenix.
“Obviously, I’ll be doing everything I possibly can on the field and in training to be part of that Ashes squad. It would be a very proud moment to walk out in front of a record crowd at my home ground.”
Alex Perkins, gross sales and advertising and marketing director at Edgbaston, which is offered out for the primary 4 days of the opening males’s Ashes Test, stated: “Since going on sale last September, demand for our women’s Ashes T20 international has been extremely high.
“For ticket gross sales to cross the earlier ladies’s attendance document with three months nonetheless to go, all with paid-for tickets, is an unbelievable achievement and a mirrored image of the quickly rising curiosity in ladies’s sport throughout the area.
“But we’re not done here. We want to break more records and the next ambition is to sell out Edgbaston.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
