England's Summer Of Cricket against New Zealand and AUSTRALIA!

[Shaggy]

i mean - how have you not organised and got tickets for every day and gone

it's just up the road

At about £100 a ticket I couldn't quite afford that.

re the popping along

if it was me, i lived that close the ground, i worked from home, i would have been so tempted to just pop down this morning, have a little walk, and see if someone was selling a ticket

that's what i was getting at - how have you managed to stay home/work (or whatever it is you do )

Small matter of school holidays and being in charge.

[Shaggy]

You think that's bad. Once I was living half a mile away from the last day of a Test match being played in front of a small crowd with lots of spare seats available if you turned up on the day. I could easily have gone but instead chose to watch it all on television in my bedroom.

It was day five of the Botham Test at Headingley.

[PTP]

fair does.

i'd love to live near(walking distance) a little cricket ground or even football (i know old trafford is not little )

we've got decent amateur clubs locally but not what i'm after

for example, i remember going up to scarborough. The cricket ground there is literally in the middle of a village/housing and it was a decent little stadium.

not world class cricket, but would be great to just think - saturday afternoon, **** all on, i'll wander down the road, pay £10 on the gate, have a few beers and have a day watching some decent cricket.

Same with football - closet i've got is Vauxhall Motors - but their home ground is about a 25 min drive and a bit of a ballache to get too.

if it was a 5-10 minute walk i'd be there most weeks

[Gingawaria]

fair does.

i'd love to live near(walking distance) a little cricket ground or even football (i know old trafford is not little )

we've got decent amateur clubs locally but not what i'm after

for example, i remember going up to scarborough. The cricket ground there is literally in the middle of a village/housing and it was a decent little stadium.

not world class cricket, but would be great to just think - saturday afternoon, **** all on, i'll wander down the road, pay £10 on the gate, have a few beers and have a day watching some decent cricket.

Same with football - closet i've got is Vauxhall Motors - but their home ground is about a 25 min drive and a bit of a ballache to get too.

if it was a 5-10 minute walk i'd be there most weeks

I live about 30 seconds from Bloomfield Road, it was tempting to get a season ticket this year as they're £190 but I just don't feel strongly enough about Blackpool to get one!

[PTP]

see blackpool are 'too' good for what i want i don't want sunday league football but i don't professional football - i want to pay £4 on the door, 50p for a teamsheet, 75p for a bovril, and then just stand wherever i want -

same goes re cricket

though £190 not bad at all - works out at less than £10 a game for championship footy.

[Shaggy]

Happy with this start by the Aussies ....don't want 'em 100 all out again

[Chazza]

Going along at a fair old lick.

[Shaggy]

Watson gone, 76-1

[Chazza]

And with that Watson goes.

[Shaggy]

Khawaja gone. 82-2. Reviewing it.

No edge ffs

[Chazza]

Not sure why he didn't review that straight away.

[Chazza]

Out

****ing joke that to be honest.

[Shaggy]

He was nowhere near it surely. Daylight between bat and ball.

[Yozza]

Have a look at this...

[ame]http://youtu.be/U69CA20zKvg[/ame]

12 runs off 1 ball!

[Chazza]

Joke of a decision that and it makes a mockery of the whole system.

No hotspot, no noise so a clear reason to overturn it.