Posted by Following on from yesterday’s post about poor Test match crowds and why it’s mostly a ticket price issue, we thought we’d make a page to try and gauge the cost of a day at the cricket.
If you go to a match this year, try and keep a rough tally and put it in the comments of this post giving the following information.
Ground: Lord’s, Old Trafford, Edgbaston etc
Match type: Test match, international Twenty20, County Championship etc
Travel: Cost per person
Ticket: Cost per person
Food: Anything you spent at the ground
Drink: What you’re willing to admit you spent at the ground
Miscellaneous: Anything else you may have bought during the day
Total: Cost per person
Lord’s
Test match
Travel: £12
Ticket: £10
Food: £0
Drink: £0
Total: £22
County Championship
Travel: £0
Ticket: £0 (member)
Food: £0
Drink: £1.20
Total: £1.20
Old Trafford
Test match
Travel: £6
Ticket: £25 and £10 for child’s ticket
Food: £10
Drink: £0
Misc: £5
Total: £56 (£34 and £22 for child)
County Championship
Travel: £8.40
Ticket: £17
Food: £15
Drink: £20
Total: £60.40
Travel: £0
Ticket: £10
Food: £1.50
Drink: £2.80
Total: £14.30
The Rose Bowl
Domestic Twenty20 (finals day)
Travel: £30 (one car)
Ticket: £55 (£45 child)
Food and drink: £70 (three people)
Misc:£20
Total: £81.25 per person
Trent Bridge
Test match
Travel: £40
Ticket: £50
Food: £7
Drink: £25
Total: £122
Domestic Twenty20
Travel: £10
Ticket: £2.70
Food: £3
Drink: £0
Total: £15.70
Ground : Old Trafford
Match Type : LVCC
Travel : £6 train £2.40 tram
Ticket : £17 (up two quid because we were playing Yarkshire
Food : Around £15
Drink : Around £15/20
Total : £60.40 est.
That was just the first day ……
Did see Lyth get a ton though, and applauded him through gritted teeth.
I was at OT Last week, and as a Durham supporter I found it very good value for money!
Ground : Old Trafford
Match Type : LVCC
Travel : Walked from hotel. [I came up from London £22 return and stayed up £80 for 3 nights, tram £4.40 ]
Ticket : £10 [there is a £5 discount for visiting members – but you have to know about it, as it is not advertised or mentioned at point of ticket sale and you have to ask for the discount, some other Durham members in the ground had brought £15 tickets] The last day was free – we won – Bargain!!!
Food : Poor choice of ice lollies, chips £1.50, brought other food with me.
Drink : £1.90 for a Jack Daniels, £2.80 for a large Jameson – celebratory last day booze – the Pavilion stays open and serves drinks for an hour after the match finishes.
Total : £35.65 average for each of the 4 days.
I’m just about to set off for the big smoke for tomorrow’s play.
Ground: The Oval
Match type: Test match, Eng v Pak 4th Day
Travel: £95 return train ticket from Edinburgh. Oyster nonsense not yet included
Ticket: £50ish after booking fee
Food: Going to try and remember to buy sandwiches before we go in. Will probably forget as we’ll be hungover.
Drink: Not sure yet, but it will be lots.
Miscellaneous: Who knows? Will lap dances tomorrow evening count?
Total: Well it’s nearly £150 so far. That could easily double.
Ground: Trent Bridge
Match type: Test match (Pakistan)
Travel: £40 return train ticket from Manchester
Ticket: £50
Food: £7 or so – sandwiches and stuff from supermarket across the road
Drink: £25
Miscellaneous: £1.50 for a copy of the Times that I didn’t want but was being sold by a spiffing young lady with nice legs.
Total: £123.50
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Ground: Old Trafford
Match type: Test match (Bangladesh)
Travel: £6 return tram tickets
Ticket: £25 for me, £10 for Bert Jr.
Food: £10 or so – sandwiches and stuff from supermarket near our house
Drink: £0
Miscellaneous: £5 for a souvenir match programme for Bert Jr
Souvenir NPower Urban Cricket Crew bag with foam hand, t-shirt, cool sunglasses and activity book – free
Total: £56 for a lad and dad to watch a real test match (£34 for me; £22 for Bert Jr)
Ground: Lord’s
Match type: Test match (Bangladesh)
Travel: £7ish train to London, £5ish tube to Lord’s
Ticket: £10 (day 5)
Food: brought home-made sandwiches, cereal bar and apple
Drink: none at the ground, about £10 in a pub near Waterloo afterwards
Miscellaneous: none
Total: About £30.
Ground: Lord’s
Match type: CC Midlesex v Leics Day 3
Travel: £0 (shanks’s pony)
Ticket: £0 (member)
Food: brought home-made sandwich and fruit
Drink: one cup of coffee – £1.20 – give me a break guys, I was on a reading day working……
Miscellaneous: none
Total: £1.20
Not bad value, really, all told.
Ground: Trent Bridge
Match Type: 20/20 – Notts v Leicestershire
Travel: Roughly £9.32 petrol
Ticket: Sort of free kind of. £27 for a student membership. I can see every CC, 20/20 and 40/40 game all season. Seen about 10 days of cricket this summer.
Food: £3 for a cheeky meal deal at the co-op across the road
Drink: Driving so just had the drink with the meal deal. Got a couple of free promotional mango Rubicon’s aswell.
Miscellaneous: Not a penny
Total: Probably cost about £15 per game
Tip: Become a student
Ground: The Rose Bowl
Match type: 20/20 Finals Day
Travel: About £30 in petrol. We were lucky that we know someone that works at the ground so we blagged free parking, otherwise it would have been another tenner or more I think.
Ticket: We went as a family – 3 x adults @ £55 and 1 x child @ £45
Food: Took about £20 worth of snacks with us, spent about another £50 on drinks, chips, coffees and ice cream.
Miscellaneous: 2 x programmes @ £5 each; 1 x Sky/TMS earpiece @ £10
Cost per head £81.25 for three games (and the mascot race!).
I’ve just been able to come around to think about Saturday.
Added onto my previous total was £30 on drink, £5 on food.
The £30 on drink and the other monies spent on drink outside the ground (to be described at some point this side of Christmas in a match report) means that I can’t be sure of any other expenses I’ve forgotten.
£180 to watch them lose.