Cricket

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owl in reply to @Scrabble

Sad times. RE tickets - if not able to get tickets for the Oval I thoroughly recommend trying to take in Surrey or Kent league T20 matches. I've been a few times (to Tunbridge Wells and Esher I think) and it's always been great fun - it's a decent standard (you get county players dropping down, I saw Tymal Mills once and I think a returning-from-injury Jade Dernbach), whilst clearly nothing like the atmosphere at the Oval you can get a good seat and there's no queue at the bar. If the cricket itself is the attraction I'd definitely imagine you could both have a wonderful evening out! I don't think people consider lower-level cricket as an option but you can really have a great time.

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Scrabble in reply to @owl

Good shout on Esher. We're in Kingston, so the Oval is favoured as nice and simple on the train, but Esher is also just down the road. Wouldn't be quite the same though. At that age, most of the fun is big ground/floodlights/fans/loud music on the sixes waving bits of paper around and all that.

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owl in reply to @Scrabble

Aye, it's def not the full pyrotechnical experience, but if you're close it's a lovely evening out on a balmy summers evening...