CA said tickets for the five Ashes Tests had sold faster than for any other cricket series held here, with 182,000 bought on the first day, which generated an estimated nine million dollars (6.75 million US) in sales.

The much-anticipated Ashes series gets underway in Brisbane on November 23.

Despite the huge demand, tickets were still available with 41 days of cricket on offer, CA said.

CA has set aside a minimum number of 635,500 tickets for the so-called Australian Cricket Family out of an overall total of 720,000.

CA chief executive James Sutherland sympathised with the fans who missed out but said CA and the agencies were prepared as well as they could be.

"Perhaps we have to some extent not understood the huge response that was going to happen from nine o'clock, but at the same stage we are seeing every second, 10 tickets go out the door," he told reporters.

Sutherland said CA would clamp down on scalpers selling tickets on the internet, as it had the right to cancel tickets.

"Anyone who's bought a ticket under the terms and conditions is not able to on-sell that ticket, the issues for us are tracking that down," he said.