Over-by-over report: Can England secure series victory at Lord’s? Find out with James Wallace
44th over: Sri Lanka 109-3 Anglelo Matthews releases some pressure with a powerful slog sweep for four. Bashir throws his head back, he knows that if the batter missed that then he was stone dead LBW. Plenty of you coming off the long run vis a vis Lord’s ticket prices. James Syme writes that – “It’s also just terrible economics: there’s a huge difference between average ticket price and average revenue per attendee.
Lord’s crowds typically spend a fortune on food, drink and merch, and , a business with high fixed costs and high revenue per user needs to be sold out. There’s also the sporting element in that, if this were to get tight, England would want a twelfth man in the footballing sense, dragging them towards the win.” And here’s James Taylor: “I live in North London and was seriously considering going down to the match today but £95 is seriously obstructive.
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