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Cricket fans who bought tickets for this winter's Ashes series on internet auction sites may be turned away from the match venues. Cricket Australia has cancelled 1,300 tickets which were sold online by touts at inflated prices.
Selling tickets on online auction sites is a breach of Cricket Australia's sales conditions.
The assocation refused to reveal full details of which tickets and which matches were affected.
Spokesman Peter Young said the association cancelled tickets purchased in various clusters and suspicous transactions.
"We also identified a number of scalpers and have cancelled all the tickets they sold online and reissued them," said Young.
"If people took the risk and bought tickets off internet sites such as eBay, there is a risk they will turn up to the ground and not be able to get in.
"The message is simple: If you are holding a ticket you purchased through the internet, you could be holding a dud."
The five-match series begins in Brisbane on 23 November and the first four days of the final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the start of January sold out in less than two hours.
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