Would You Go Along To A Neutral Test Match?

[Shoggz]

As the Bangladesh Lord's test is (as 4-or-6 says) only £30, I'm going to go to at least the first day, but I'm seriously thinking of going to one of the Pakistan Australia tests too.

My love of cricket in itself is only slightly less than my love of England as a team!

 

[stumpski]

Have mused before at the ridiculously small capacities of English grounds. Won't go over it again, but madness that so many have to mis out on a seat or mortgage their cobblers to get in.

Edit: except for f-o-s obviously

True, but here's what happens now when a Test crowd leaves the Oval (capacity approx 20,000): traffic in surrounding streets comes to a standstill as spectators start wandering amongst the cars; you have to queue for half an hour to get into the Oval tube station; bus drivers approach and then drive straight off again, shaking their heads. And this is what happens now - I dread to think it would be like with doubled capacity. London is a crowded city.

 

[GIMH]

dav made a good post as well once saying that you can't justify bigger capacities because the grounds are unused half the year and don't get full all that often anyway (temp seating usually actually raises the attendance for Tests in a lot of grounds).

Aussies grounds get used all year round because they're pretty much multi-purpose AFAIK. We have footy stadia with fairly big capacities.

 

[Spark]

dav made a good post as well once saying that you can't justify bigger capacities because the grounds are unused half the year and don't get full all that often anyway (temp seating usually actually raises the attendance for Tests in a lot of grounds).

Aussies grounds get used all year round because they're pretty much multi-purpose AFAIK. We have footy stadia with fairly big capacities.

See, we love cricket so much we invented a sport that you could play in winter on oval-shaped grounds