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between India and Australia Anthony Everard, Cricket greatest in international sport to the Australian Cricket Family.
have been sold out after tick- Australia’s Executive General and this series is shaping up as It didn’t take long today for things
ets went on sale this morning. Manager of Fan Engagement, an epic,” Everard said. to move quickly, with now just a
“The second and third ODIs at said that it showed fans cannot “It’s been fantastic to see so couple of thousand tickets re-
the SCG and Manuka Oval re- wait for the men’s international much interest in the ODI and maining for the first ODI on No-
spectively have been exhausted season to begin. “The rivalry be- T20I Series, with the high de- vember 27 at the SCG,” he added.
while the Manuka Oval T20I tween the Australian and Indian mand starting from yesterday Responding to the cricket
and two SCG T20Is are sold men’s cricket teams is one of the with our pre-sale period offered fan’s excitement, James All-
out,” CA said in a release. sopp, Cricket ACT CEO, stated
that there was some genuine ex-
citement building in Canberra
“limited tickets to the ahead of the two T20Is. “It is
first odi on november 27 fantastic to have such high-qual-
ity international cricket coming
at the SCG remain, with to the ACT this summer and I
approximately 1,900 pub- am not surprised that fans have
acted so quickly to ensure they
lic seats left. Both the have a seat,” he said.
India’s tour of Australia will
SCG and Manuka oval will begin with three ODIs on No-
be at 50 per cent capacity vember 27, 29, and December 2.
for series, with fans voting The first T20I will also be played
in Canberra on December 4 and
with their feet after tick- the rest two on December 6 and
et prices were frozen from 8 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Also, the Indian side is set to
the last time india came play four Tests against Australia
to Australia in 2018/19,” which will be a part of the Test
Championship and the winner
it added. Virat Kohli-led side now heads to Down Under gets one step closer to the final,
scheduled in June 2021.
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