Saturday, 13 August 2011

Testing Times...

It seems that England have come up with the goodies this time around. They've beaten India by an innings and 242 runs in the Third Test. Or something like that... Mind you, I heard that this was likely back on Thursday, when someone or other made a comment to the effect that he hoped anyone with tickets for Sunday's play had alternative arrangements planned, just in case.

I never did get a satisfactory answer to my question: what happens if you buy tickets for the fifth day's play, and it's all over?
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3 comments:

  1. la mamma7:20 pm

    hi Mac, I've gone native when it comes to cricket - even listening to TMS while I make lunch!

    if there is no play on the fifth day, you get a full refund. I understand that there are also partial refunds available for less-than-full days too, so cricket is better than Wimbledon in that regard. Did you see the six into the pint of beer? Classic! Made the ball a bit sticky though.

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  2. Ttony8:30 pm

    You get your money back and if you are an England supporter there is a bittersweet moment when you realise that you are being compensated for not being there when it happened.

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  3. Toby12:59 pm

    On the whole tickets for the fifth day are not sold until the eve of the fourth and are generally sold at a much-reduced cost because the fifth day normally falls on a Monday.

    Where play is ended early due to rain or completion of the match if fewer than set number of overs have been bowled then you get a proportion of your money back. Much like the game it's all quite civilised (and at Lords you can still bring some of your own alcohol into the ground).

    Your recent reflections on silence and not physically doing anything in the EF Mass have some parallels with cricket too. For large periods of the match you can be doing nothing at all, but nobody would suggest that you hadn't played the match even if you did very little whilst you were in the field.

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