Cricket Australia Hit Hard as 4th Ashes MCG Test Wraps in 2 Days, ₹60 Crore Loss Expected
Australia retained the Urn. However, Cricket Australia is not pleased. Ashes are leading Australia, but a lot of money has also been lost. The year 2024-25 was not that exceptional for CA either. CA incurred a loss of $11.3 million (INR 68.05 crores) despite having the India series for the 5-match Test series. The Ashes series of 2025-26 marked a turning point for CA.
Cricket Australia Stares at ₹60 Crore Loss as 4th Ashes Test Wraps Up in 2 Days
Nothing like that has happened. The first test at Perth ended within 2 days. Therefore, a loss of $5 million (30.12 crore) was incurred by CA on ticket sales. But that is still not the end of it.
Since the fourth test match was also completed in two days at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), CA faces a loss of over $10 million (INR 60.22 crores). The total attendance on the first day of the Boxing Day test match was 94,199, while on Day 2 it was 92,045. CA had earlier confirmed that Day 3 was a sell-out, with heavy demand for Day 4 as well.
"If that was somewhere else in the world, you know, there'd be hell on"
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The captains share their opinions on the spicy MCG pitch 👀 #Ashes pic.twitter.com/XwhX3mexIB
But CA will not earn anything from this. They will even have to return the tickets. It wasn’t just the Australian cricket team that was defeated in the MCG, but CA as well. The chief executive officer of Cricket Australia, Todd Greenberg, confirmed that less Test cricket is not good for business.
“As mesmerising, fascinating, and fun to watch as it was from the perspective of someone viewing it as a spectator, from our perspective, we certainly would like Test cricket to drag on for a lot longer. ‘Short tests are bad for business’ is just the simplest way I could state that,” he explained.
