{"id":7886,"date":"2020-12-10T03:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T04:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2020-12-10T05:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:02:50","slug":"boost-for-boxing-day-test-with-crowd-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7886","title":{"rendered":"Boost for Boxing Day Test with crowd increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crowd capacity for the Boxing Day Test is set to be capped at 30,000 per day, up from the original number of 25,000.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to increase the crowd capacity by 5000 has been endorsed by Victoria&#x27;s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/boxing-day-test-crowd-capacity-increased-as-tickets-go-on-sale-20201210-p56mea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Age.\">The Age<em>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news follows a huge turnaround in Victoria&#x27;s battle with COVID-19, with the state registering zero new cases of community transmission each day for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-sale tickets for the second Test between Australia and India opened today for Australian cricket family members.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 6,900 Melbourne Cricket Club members will be allowed entry while the general public, AFL members and corporates will make up the rest of the Boxing Day Test crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the general public will go on sale at 3pm AEDT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"23c25943-5a2a-4219-806f-4d5356943bbe\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/23c25943-5a2a-4219-806f-4d5356943bbe\" alt=\"A general view as cricket fans in the crowd of 88,172 enjoy the atmosphere on Boxing Day during day one of the Fourth Test Match in the 2017\/18 Ashes series between Australia and England at Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 26, 2017 \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The crowd capacity for the Boxing Day Test is set to be capped at 30,000 per day, up from the original number of 25,000. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7886\" title=\"Boost for Boxing Day Test with crowd increased\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}