Inside Sport

Do you watch live cricket?


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By Decentric - 4 Feb 2019 11:54 PM

If you watch live cricket as a spectator, what do you watch?

First Class/Shield?

Tests?

ODI?

BBL or domestic 20/20?

20/20 Internationals?

Domestic One Day?

Grade cricket?
By Paddles - 27 Feb 2019 8:47 AM

baggygreenmania - 27 Feb 2019 8:10 AM
I have been to quite a few live Test matches/ODIs over the years. But my last excursion to our iconic SCG was probably the last for myself and my brother. Firstly the parking there is atrocious. There is no modern parking (unless you are a member) only a grass carpark. The cricket itself was great with Matty Renshaw scoring his first brilliant century.. the rest was close to a  nitemare.. or should I say daymare.  We made the effort to book undercover seating but found when we arrived we were in fact not undercover  but out in the baking 30+%C sun instead. We must have used the best part of a tube of sun block that day. My brother has a crook back as I do and I can tell you sitting on those plastic seats for 7 hours is murder. When we took a break and went into a room that had a big screen installed.. think this was for the peasants who were paying $30 a ticket.. we copped filthy floors and tables and so much noise from the drunken revelry.. mostly by the Richies who had invaded the place for probably the same reason we had.  As we had parked opposite the stadium on grass with just about everyone else and their dog it took us almost two hours to get out of the place as they only had the one manned exit point. That was dumb. knowing what a large crowd they would get with it being a Test match.  Finally we exited and my brother.. the designated driver.. was seething. He said "never again unless they build a decent underground carpark" .So that was my last  live game at the SCG. Not an altogether enriching experience. 

Yeah, at these big stadiums, if you're not in the big money areas (corp boxes, serviced areas with comfortable seating), it's all too often not a pleasant experience. Crowd atmosphere is great and all, but is it worth the expense, drama and hassle?

Rugby, Football, Rugby League and AFl are very different to cricket in terms of the ball size for one one, less detail is missed for those sports than cricket at the stadium...