Good luck if you're going to the Sydney Test

Looks like I'm not.

Duly registered as a member of the Australian Cricket Family, I logged onto the Cricket Australia website at 9am this morning to try and get some tickets for the Sydney Test against England in January. The link took me through to Ticketek's booking website, which told me:

Thank you for visiting Ticketek.com, tickets to a major event have gone on sale today!
Due to a major event going on sale, the website is currently experiencing high demand.

And is still telling me that at 11.40am. And no, I'm not one of those dweebs who hits reload continuously over and over. A more civilised every two or three minutes while I get on with life seemed just as productive for me.

Meanwhile, Cricket Australia announced at 11am that "The ticket allocation to the Australian Cricket Family has been exhausted for days 1-4 of the Sydney Test."

Mind you, I can apparently still get tickets to the Twenty20 game and the three one-dayers. If I can ever get onto the Ticketek website. Fat chance.

There will be a further allocation of tickets available to the general public from June 19. Good luck if you're not one of the Barmitia Militia.

Personal grumbling aside, it's fabulous news for the sport that tickets to any cricket, let alone Test cricket, can be this popular.