Cricket

Well, it wasn't a sell out. Tickets available at the gate (despite the 6 ticket boxes being horrendously inefficient) and not stupidly priced (£20/£25/£30 for adults, £1 for children).

Touts were around outside Vauxhall station but I didn't enquire at all. Guess they were just preying on people who would panic buy.

OK game in the end although only 55 overs in total. We were surrounded by mostly Afghani supporters and they were awesome.

Never bothered with those games, personally; just a waste of money for a nothing game.

Somehow got a ticket for the opening game on Thursday last week, more excited than I ever was.

England avoid appointment with Steyn

Never bothered with those games, personally; just a waste of money for a nothing game.

Fair enough.

My 9yo daughter still enjoys days like this, she just sees it as a game of cricket regardless of the status/meaning (or lack of it). At £20 for an adult and £1 for a child it wasn't bad value (I'm paying over £100 a ticket for a single day of the Ashes, and not sure that will be 5 times "better".)

Test match cricket is loads better.

Can anybody remember what happened in the 2005 50 over games against Australia? No.

Can everybody remember what happened in the 2005 Ashes? Yes.

Sorry, not sure of your point.

Which test match should I have been going to watch on Monday then?

FFS

You’re the one who compared them.

I like one day cricket but it’s a McDonalds compared to the feast the Ashes represents.

You’re the one who compared them.

Only in response to cmburns:-

Never bothered with those games, personally; just a waste of money for a nothing game.

It was more a question of value for money.

£100 for an Ashes ticket is about the limit of what I'll pay. If it was £1000 then I'd definitely not go.

Likewise, £40 for a single ticket to a warm up ODI against Afghanistan would be too much but £41 for three of us was an ok price.

Plus availability. There's a shed load more, cheaper, "lesser" cricket than Test Matches all year round.

Anyway. CWC...

We're picking up the pace a bit...

^ Nice.

My view isn't as glamorous but it's better than being in the office.

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From this angle, maaaaaaan Jofra is rapid

Oh my God Stokesy that was incredible

Good to see the bowlers being given a good run out.

Waiting for the replay to appear on the BBC site.

This team deserves to have the eye of the British public with catches like that, but they're behind a fucking paywall

https://twitter.com/SkyCricket/status/1134130850839351298

It's on the BBC site now too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/47476750 at 17:25

Includes another angle that isn't on the Sky links.

Direct link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/48467301

that catch.

Is it time to start not getting carried away yet?

That’s ridiculous. Wonderful recovery roll and celebration in front of the fans too!

Catch was right in front of me. Possibly the most amazing sporting feat I have seen in the flesh. Replays don't don't justice. The turn and salute to the fans was perfect icing on the cake

Catch was right in front of me. Possibly the most amazing sporting feat I have seen in the flesh. Replays don't do it justice. The turn and salute to the fans was perfect icing on the cake

Ah, the classic Pakistan shitfest. Excited to see Archer bowl some short stuff at them on Monday