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Old May 18, 2005, 04:46 AM
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Default Bangladesh not expected to go the distance

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May 18, 2005

A report in today's Times newspaper has highlighted that while tickets for this summer's Ashes series are more scarce than a George Galloway climbdown, sales for the latter stages of the two Bangladesh Tests can be politely described as sluggish.

With eight days to go before Bangladesh make their Lord's debut, around than 15,000 tickets have been shifted for each of the first three days, but few seem to expect the match to go into a fourth day, with only 3484 seats sold for the Sunday. While those figures would be healthy for any other country, Lord's, with a capacity of almost 30,000, is usually close to capacity for at least four days.

The MCC, who run Lord's, have pulled out all the stops to market the match to London's sizeable Bangladeshi community, and ticket prices have been reduced to between £20 and £35 as a further incentive. MCC has been running advertisements on UK satellite station Bangla TV as well as selling tickets through Sonali Bank. But the Bangladeshis' performance at Hove this week will hardly have led to queues at the box office.

"We have targeted our efforts at the Bangladeshi communities in London, recognising both that this is the country's first Test match here and that they may not be familiar with how to get tickets," said an MCC spokesman. "We have been working on this match for months and months and taken out adverts in Curry House, the restaurant-trade magazine."

Riverside, the venue for the second Test, reports brisk sales for the first two days, but a spokesman admitted that concerns about whether Bangladesh will last much longer made Saturday and Sunday hard to market.

MCC have handed out 5,000 complimentary tickets to schools on each of the first three days, while Durham have reserved 300 seats for children aged between five and 12 to watch the first day's play. The initiative is part of npower's drive to get more young people interested in cricket, with tickets priced at just £5 and free adult tickets for every eight children.

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