The price is right? The cost of Test Cricket
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan is joined by The Guardian's Ali Martin, Wisden Editor & Daily Mail journalist Lawrence Booth, the BBC's Chief Cricket Writer Stephan Shemilt, and Rex Clementine from The Island newspaper over from Sri Lanka to discuss the money involved in watching test cricket. They discuss the price of tickets, as well as the context of England men's test schedule and how low attendances reflect on test cricket in general.
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| 0:00.0 | For all things football, |
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| 0:08.0 | These fans have got absolutely wild. |
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| 0:39.7 | Time for our newspaper and website friends to join us to discuss the various issues |
| 0:43.7 | that have been thrown up in the last week or so who have we got we've got Ali Martin |
| 0:47.1 | from the Guardian we've got Lawrence Booth from the Daily Mail also of course editor |
| 0:51.6 | of Wisdon he says deferentially. Stephen Schamilt, BBC's cricket writer here. |
| 0:56.0 | And Rex Clementine, good to have you here, Rex, and the island newspaper in Sri Lanka. |
| 1:01.6 | Right, where do we start? I've been off the long run this morning. |
| 1:04.0 | Not literally running around Regents Park something, but actually off the long run about |
| 1:08.8 | what we can see in front of us here. Thousands and thousands of empty seats. Lawrence. What do you |
| 1:15.6 | reckon? What do you make of this? It's Sunday, it's Lords, it's a beautiful day, |
| 1:19.0 | it's a test match, and there's I don't know how many people are here but it's not nearly enough |
| 1:25.0 | 100-odd pounds or something to buy a ticket to come in people said no thanks |
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