World Cup final ticket at Lord’s to cost record £395

Tickets for next year’s World Cup final at Lord’s will cost up to £395, the highest price for a match in cricket history. The cheapest seats

on July 14 will be £95 for adults, £20 for children. MCC members will have to pay only a percentage of the cost, with the club agreeing to subsidise the rest.

Prices for other matches will be as low as £20 for adults, while some “kids for a quid” tickets are expected to be released.

The England and Wales Cricket Board set the levels after market research and looking at the cost of tournaments in other sports. The board expects to make around £40million from sales. There will be around 800,000 tickets for the 46 matches, although 10 to 15 per cent will go to corporate sponsors.

It was confirmed yesterday that

the London Stadium would not be one of the venues. It was eventually ruled out because the ideal pitch location would be hampered by the setting sun. The best orientation of

the pitch would be east to west but the London Stadium has a perspex roof to allow the sun on the grass and after Eoin Morgan and Andrew Strauss “shadow-batted” at the ground, it was decided this would be too much of a problem for players.

The ECB has already started growing drop-in pitches to be used at the London Stadium and these could now be given to counties.

Officials have promised fresh pitches for the semi-finals and final of the World Cup, avoiding the problem England faced at last year’s Champions Trophy, when they were beaten by Pakistan on a used surface in Glamorgan.