Protest at ticket prices goes online

The war of words over the pricing of tickets for the forthcoming West Indies-England series is warming up, and now a group of disgruntled England supporters have launched a website aimed at becoming a focal point for protests.

The website (www.wishame.org) is still in embryonic form, but the organisers claim that the full version will be up and running within the next week or so.

One plan mooted by the organisers is the staging of a silent protest during the third Test in Barbados, and they are considering printing special banners for spectators to hold up expressing their disgust at the special ticket tax.

The organisers have written to both the West Indies board (WICB) and the England & Wales Cricket Board. In a letter to the WICB, they complain that "England supporters are being milked in an extraordinarily partisan manner". The letters adds that "it is particularly offensive that the levy was introduced long after most bookings for Caribbean holidays had already been made."