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Rip-off cricket

By Scott 4 years ago, at the end of November Add your comment below

Reader ‘Glamorous Organ’ has a moan.

Watching Test cricket, or just about any other sport is no longer a pursuit for the working man. Even at the “liberal” enclave of Lords fussy stewarding depresses the spirits. A friend who went to the Oval last summer was so hacked off with the rip-off prices for crap beer and greasy burgers, he’s sworn never to go again.

He’s not the only unhappy camper. During today’s play, BBC legend Jonathan Agnew told how he has to drink decaffeinated coffee (I’d lose the will to live without real coffee, but I digress) and since it wasn’t supplied at the media centre at The Oval, he brought his own. But the Oval stewards confiscated it off him.

Now if Aggers can’t escape the rip off mentality that has enveloped the world’s cricket grounds, what hope is there for the rest of us?

He also said that £5 bottles of wine were going for around £35 at The Oval. That’s nice if you can get it.

At Brisbane, a half-pint is going for $5.50, so about £2. So work out how much a day at the cricket is going to cost you given your own drinking habits. Even if you are a more sober sort of individual, don’t expect water or soft-drinks to be much cheaper.

Anyway, consider this to be an open forum for readers to list their favourite gripes about rip-offs at the cricket.

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5 Responses to “Rip-off cricket”

  • Reverse Swing wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 3.05 pm

    Ok, I’ll lead off…

    Alcohol bans at Test Match grounds being sold to us punters on the basis of reducing drunken behaviour, and then the authorities in the grounds happy for people to get totally paralytic – as long as they are buying their beer in the ground and thus adding to the ground profits.

  • Scott wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 10.18 pm

    I was at an ODI in Dunedin, New Zealand, where the locals were being encouraged to buy their beer in six-can lots.

  • Elliott wrote:
    November 27th, 2006 at 12.20 am

    $6.00 cheeseburgers at pretty much any ground in Australia. :( A burger that you would pay $3.30 for at my local takeaway shop.

  • Tom wrote:
    November 27th, 2006 at 5.38 am

    Food and drink prices are always abnormally high around Australian grounds – in the AFL season expect to pay 4-5 dollars for soft drink at the MCG.

    Days at the sporting events can very quickly exceed one hundred dollars.

  • Murph wrote:
    November 27th, 2006 at 10.45 am

    It’s the same over here in Blighty. Vile beer, in plastic pint pots that normally crack 5 seconds after leaving the bar area!

    In terms of taking your own stuff into the grounds, the fashion for “vetting” all food/drink being brought into the grounds has gone too far. Pepsi might sponsor the ICC and their tournements, but they don’t sponsor me (nor, I presume, any of the other fans queueing for hours while Billy-no-stars (on a rare day off from his McD’s job) searches through my bag looking for any offending, non-sponsor products!) Why can’t we eat/drink what we like?

    I went to my last international match almost 3 years ago, and I have no intention of going again (especially as it costs £60 for a days play in the first place!!).

    I’ll stick to watching Warwickshire – at least I can take four cans of my own lager into the ground.

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