{"id":329087,"date":"2025-12-22T02:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329087\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:38:13","slug":"the-ashes-2025-why-are-there-empty-seats-at-the-adelaide-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329087\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Why are there empty seats at the Adelaide Oval?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia may be about to seal series victory in the Ashes, but sections of the stands at the Adelaide Oval are currently closed on day five of third Test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In common with many national boards around the world, Cricket Australia do not sell tickets for day five of Tests far in advance, therefore they rely on supporters picking up seats once the match is under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of 2024, only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/how-test-matches-are-increasingly-getting-shorter-anantha-narayanan-1423646\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30% of Tests go to a fifth day, external<\/a>, therefore the sales strategy reflects the likelihood of fans planning far in advance to attend a day&#8217;s play that might not be staged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For those in the Adelaide area, entry is $30 (approx. \u00a315) for adults with children aged 15 and under admitted free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All proceeds from day five tickets sales will be donated to charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Australian venue has enjoyed bumper crowds at this Test match, with the days one-four attendance total of 202,995 a record for the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia may be about to seal series victory in the Ashes, but sections of the stands at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-329087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}