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    Oct 12, 2008

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    Rip-off cricket

    By Scott 2 years ago, at the end of November, Comments

    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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    Still no confirmation about the status of the Oval Test

    By Scott 2 years ago, mid-August, Comments

    There has still been no confirmation about whether or not the Fourth Test has been forfeited or not. Readers with tickets to day five are advised to check on the Surrey CCC website.

    ECB Vice Chairman Mike Soper has once again hinted that he doesn’t think there will be play tomorrow. Meanwhile we learn that ICC HQ was thinking they were going to have tomorrow off.

    It’s just been noted that the ICC office will be closed tomorrow. As the press release has it: “The day has been declared a holiday in Dubai to mark the Ascension of the Prophet (PBUH). The office will be open as normal on Sunday 20 August (8.30am - 5pm) and, after the day off, it will reopen at 8.30am on Tuesday 22 August.” Could this situation get much more farcical? Probably not…

    ICC President Percy Sonn and CEO Malcolm Speed certainly will not be having a day off, I guess.

    My own guess, and it is only a guess, is that we will have play tomorrow, as ICC puts pressure to avoid a Test ending via a forfeit, which would be unprecedented.

    Aggers has put his column up. He has some sympathy for Pakistan’s plight, he doesn’t think that a ’sit-in’ was the appropriate way to protest. He does not address the ‘forfeit’ issue, which is fair enough. There’s enough for everyone to get their heads around as it is.

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    Over fond of Aggers?

    By Will 3 years ago, mid-November, Comments

    This person is. Or, to use their own words:

    I woke up and fell asleep to the cricket. I think I am becoming sexually obsessed with over-fond of Aggers. He’s such a dear.

    Oh dear.

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