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Review 1 for Titans of Cricket
titans of cricket was good but a bit boring
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Posted 08/04/2012
by milkface
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i enjoyed it but it got a bit boring towards the end. One of the teams didnt even bother to turn up and i was looking forward to seeing one of my favourite players, wasim akram but he was a no show. The games were fun but a little tedious, nothing spectacular and freddie flintoff didnt play well at all.. Also there must have been something wrong with the sound sytem as i couldnt hear the interviews at all well..... this could be remedied by watching it on tv when it was on a few months after the event. All in all ok but dont think worth the money
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Review 2 for Titans of Cricket
Fun event with cricketing legends!
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Favourite moment: The commentators constant jibes, particularly against the Ozzies! @
Posted 10/11/2011
by Gezzad
Location:London
Titans of Cricket was a great event which will surely get better. The night clearly suffered as this was the first time it was run and so it was not as smooth as it could be. However it is a great idea and if it becomes a regular event then I am sure the teething problems will be resolved and it will be even better.
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Review 3 for Titans of Cricket
Titans Of Cricket was a waste of time (and money)
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Posted 31/10/2011
by Mahmud
Location:London
Paid extra for VIP tickets. Players Q+A started late. Sat around for over an hour buying drinks to stop getting bored. Autographs/Photo opportunities very, very limited. Would have been good to have had all players there giving proper photo opportunities. Did not get goodie bag (as advertised). Event itself was very basic and badly organised. What was the point of having David Boon there?? Sat on sofa all evening, did not do any challenges, and took his appearance money!
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Review 4 for Titans of Cricket
Lived up to its name!
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Favourite moment: Bowling - Gilly completely amazed that he hit the wicket so squarely! @
Posted 24/10/2011
by Kiasun
Location:South Coast
The event was originally scheduled to start at 6.30pm which was perfect with our travel times on public transport. We were contacted 3 days before the event to say the time had changed to 7.30pm. Had this been the time on the original programme we would not have attended as we did not want an overnight stay in London. We did not arrive home until 1.30 am the following morning and missed the end of the event as we had a train to catch (works on the train necessitated a bus connection during the journey)
The event itself was superb, fun, energetic, certainly different and great to see cricketers enjoying themselves in different challenges. Male umpire was incredibly good as was the male commentator, the female commentator was not good and also difficult to hear.
Certainly hit the entertainment high spots and also reinforced that the game of cricket involves a tremendous amount of skills
The event itself was superb, fun, energetic, certainly different and great to see cricketers enjoying themselves in different challenges. Male umpire was incredibly good as was the male commentator, the female commentator was not good and also difficult to hear.
Certainly hit the entertainment high spots and also reinforced that the game of cricket involves a tremendous amount of skills
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Review 5 for Titans of Cricket
Titans of Cricket - absolute waste of money!
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Posted 17/10/2011
by Gertie21
Location:London
Bought 2 VIP tickets for £330 - absolute waste of money!
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Review 6 for Titans of Cricket
VIP ticket shambles.....
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Posted 17/10/2011
by d86uk
Location:Turnford
£160+ VIP tickets paid for and I do not feel value for money was received.
Firstly the 'VIP check-in' staff at the Sky backstage seemed unaware that some people had tickets and others just e-mails and chaos insued until someone decided to set up two queues.
Once in the Sky backstage Bar the schedule of events completely went out of the window. The first Q&A with Jimmy Adams was an hour late and not until around 50 mins late did anyone appear to tell the crowd that there was a delay as players were still practising. Jimmy's Q&A lasted about 10 mins max. The next Q&A with the Team Captains changed to a 10 minute Q&A with three of the England Team who were then ushered away by over zealous staff. The players signed a few autographs and posed for a few photographs but this was notr structured and was a scrum and by no means did all get an opportunity to meet those players. The same occurred with the next Q&A which was with 3 of the Australian players. We had been promised a meet and greet including an autograph session and photos opps (with a professional photographer) with all players playing in th event - this did not happen and there was no announcement or apology given as to why. The staff ushering the players away were seen to push paying VIP guests out of the way and order them not to bother the players desopite myself witnessing one member of staff get an autograph and photo with one players (this member of staff was then told off by management in front of everyone) but then continued to usher the players away and push through the crowd.
It would have been easy to sit all of the players behind a table and allow everyone to queue and get say 1 autograph from each player - this would not have taken any time and would have been well received by the VIP guests.
As part of the package a signed Bat by all of the players was supposed to be received. However this wasn't even mentioned and I had to ask a member of management when we would get them, to be told that the bats had turned up late and not yet signed, therefore Ticketmaster would senf these on via the post. When will these be sent?
All kin all for a lot of money the VIP experience was very disapointing - not only did the promised events not happen, but the way the delays, etc were handled were not very good. As I saidd it took over 45 mins for it become apparent that there was even anyone there in a management capacity.
As for the actual event - this is a great concept but needs some serious work to really flow and work properly. there were a couple of games where the players didn't seem to know what to expect or what to do and one game where it had to be restarted as the timings weren't working properly for measuring the speed of the balls hit.
Also I was told my seats were both unrestricted view - however one was restricted.
All in all what should have been a once in a lifetime opportunity (VIP package) and a good night was slightly soured.
Firstly the 'VIP check-in' staff at the Sky backstage seemed unaware that some people had tickets and others just e-mails and chaos insued until someone decided to set up two queues.
Once in the Sky backstage Bar the schedule of events completely went out of the window. The first Q&A with Jimmy Adams was an hour late and not until around 50 mins late did anyone appear to tell the crowd that there was a delay as players were still practising. Jimmy's Q&A lasted about 10 mins max. The next Q&A with the Team Captains changed to a 10 minute Q&A with three of the England Team who were then ushered away by over zealous staff. The players signed a few autographs and posed for a few photographs but this was notr structured and was a scrum and by no means did all get an opportunity to meet those players. The same occurred with the next Q&A which was with 3 of the Australian players. We had been promised a meet and greet including an autograph session and photos opps (with a professional photographer) with all players playing in th event - this did not happen and there was no announcement or apology given as to why. The staff ushering the players away were seen to push paying VIP guests out of the way and order them not to bother the players desopite myself witnessing one member of staff get an autograph and photo with one players (this member of staff was then told off by management in front of everyone) but then continued to usher the players away and push through the crowd.
It would have been easy to sit all of the players behind a table and allow everyone to queue and get say 1 autograph from each player - this would not have taken any time and would have been well received by the VIP guests.
As part of the package a signed Bat by all of the players was supposed to be received. However this wasn't even mentioned and I had to ask a member of management when we would get them, to be told that the bats had turned up late and not yet signed, therefore Ticketmaster would senf these on via the post. When will these be sent?
All kin all for a lot of money the VIP experience was very disapointing - not only did the promised events not happen, but the way the delays, etc were handled were not very good. As I saidd it took over 45 mins for it become apparent that there was even anyone there in a management capacity.
As for the actual event - this is a great concept but needs some serious work to really flow and work properly. there were a couple of games where the players didn't seem to know what to expect or what to do and one game where it had to be restarted as the timings weren't working properly for measuring the speed of the balls hit.
Also I was told my seats were both unrestricted view - however one was restricted.
All in all what should have been a once in a lifetime opportunity (VIP package) and a good night was slightly soured.
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Review 7 for Titans of Cricket
Once in a lifetime chance to see greats of cricket
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Posted 15/10/2011
by Gnoef1bwrk
Location:Berkshire
Once in a lifetime opportunity to see crickets finest show their skills. Great atmosphere and a fun night too!
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Review 8 for Titans of Cricket
Titans of Cricket you must be joking!
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Posted 15/10/2011
by BetsyBoo2
What a shame, I was looking forward to the event. It was a good concept but it's such a shame they didn't pull it off. Sorry guys!
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Review 9 for Titans of Cricket
Really enjoyable experience
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Favourite moment: Adam Gilchrist hitting the wickets in the bowl out! @
Posted 14/10/2011
by Damo12sey
Didnt know what to expect than this, but was pleasantly surprised. A real mix of great cricketers, some great ideas for cricket skills and enthousiastic presenters and entertainers.
Needs to be fine tuned and a bit slicker, to be expected as it was first time this had been done, but there is so much potential for a great event.
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Review 10 for Titans of Cricket
Refund
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Posted 14/10/2011
by Gnome4
Location:Devon
Yep I agree with the majority. We should be refunded our hard earned cash as this was not what we were promised! Now we learn that no more tickets are available,there's a surprise! It doesn't work.. Pay your fans back guys!,,
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Review 11 for Titans of Cricket
Waste of money
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Posted 14/10/2011
by suffolklady
Location:suffolk
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the £300 plus that I wasted taking up the offer of the VIP package. As a birthday present to my husband who is a very keen cricket fan the thought of a meet and greet with every player and recieving their autographs and other memorbilla was a highlight. Other expectations for a VIP package were also expected as the norm but not received. Very, Very poor and disappointing.
No one in the O2 seemed to know what was going on. Apart from being led to a seperate bar area, being given a program and having our photo taken by a O2 member of staff, for some SKY backstage thing; that seemed to be the extent of the memorbilla.
Running later than expected 3 of the England cricket group came out. It was difficult to see or hear the players due to the amount of people. They quickly ran away at the end of a few interviews, but giving autographs to some standing at the right place at the time. Then 3 of the Australian players came out. I say players, David Boon never moved off his seat at all for the actual games.
The event itself was quite amusing, but the players seemed bored, there was little effort made by most. The most entertaining of all was Adam Gillcrist.
It was hard to hear the players as the sound was quite bad.
Sitting at the far end of the court having to totally rely on the big screen, again with a VIP package there were much better seats.
Many people were leaving through the evening and not staying to the end. Slow hand clapping and actual Booing was heard as the referee seemed to making it up as he went along.
It was a complete let down.
No one in the O2 seemed to know what was going on. Apart from being led to a seperate bar area, being given a program and having our photo taken by a O2 member of staff, for some SKY backstage thing; that seemed to be the extent of the memorbilla.
Running later than expected 3 of the England cricket group came out. It was difficult to see or hear the players due to the amount of people. They quickly ran away at the end of a few interviews, but giving autographs to some standing at the right place at the time. Then 3 of the Australian players came out. I say players, David Boon never moved off his seat at all for the actual games.
The event itself was quite amusing, but the players seemed bored, there was little effort made by most. The most entertaining of all was Adam Gillcrist.
It was hard to hear the players as the sound was quite bad.
Sitting at the far end of the court having to totally rely on the big screen, again with a VIP package there were much better seats.
Many people were leaving through the evening and not staying to the end. Slow hand clapping and actual Booing was heard as the referee seemed to making it up as he went along.
It was a complete let down.
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Review 12 for Titans of Cricket
Disappointing
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Posted 13/10/2011
by Ravereviewer184
Location:Somerset
I bought these tickets as a birthday present and was expecting to see a final. Although the Line -up of cricketers was pretty impressive, the organisation of the event was not impressive at all and was frankly quite disappointed. The challenges were not well organised and the atmosphere by the end was pretty poor. Alot of time was filled up with the presenters talking, some of the banter was very funny, but half of the conversations from the cricketers you couldnt hear at all. For the amount of money spent it unfortunately was not worth the money. The concept was great the outcome not so much.
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Review 13 for Titans of Cricket
Start the car ....
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Posted 13/10/2011
by angussnave
... is what Bumble would have said after about ten minutes of this embarrassing show. This was the worst live show I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of live shows and sporting events. The challenges were the sort of events you might see at sports day at primary school – according to the programme, the Technical Director is Jimmy Adams, the former West Indies Test cricketer! The props used in the challenges looked like they were made in the nursery during the ‘colouring in’ lessons.
As for the presenters, they appeared to have no knowledge of cricket and were very poor interviewers. Umpire Charlie Dagnall was slightly better but his cheap gags about match fixing were unnecessary, not funny and in very poor taste. I assume that most of the players knew this was likely to be rubbish from the minute they signed up but, according to press reports, they were paid thirty grand each. To be fair, most of them entered into the spirit of the evening. The most notable exceptions were Flintoff, Harmison and Boon.
Apparently Sky is showing highlights of the ‘event’ – they should be able to squeeze in all the highlights in one of the short breaks between adverts.
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Review 14 for Titans of Cricket
A Titanic Waste of Time and Money
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Posted 13/10/2011
by ksafc
Location:Basingstoke
Teams advestised did not materialise, notabky Sehwag and Lara.
Arena only half full.
Players seemed uninterested and lacked any enthusiasam, Boon didnt even get off his fat arse.
Commentators were trying to make a silk prse from a sows ear, Pollyanna had a high pitch squeal which grated and when interviewing the players didnt hold the microphone close enouigh to them so they could be heard.
The challenges were disjointed and didnt flow and theformat only allowed a good veiw in certain parts of the arena.
all in all a waste of a Saturday evening and an expesive one at that, two adults and two kids, food, drink and travel amounting to around £250!!!
Arena only half full.
Players seemed uninterested and lacked any enthusiasam, Boon didnt even get off his fat arse.
Commentators were trying to make a silk prse from a sows ear, Pollyanna had a high pitch squeal which grated and when interviewing the players didnt hold the microphone close enouigh to them so they could be heard.
The challenges were disjointed and didnt flow and theformat only allowed a good veiw in certain parts of the arena.
all in all a waste of a Saturday evening and an expesive one at that, two adults and two kids, food, drink and travel amounting to around £250!!!
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Review 15 for Titans of Cricket
Disappointed VIP at Titans of cricket
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Favourite moment: Watching famous players enjoying themselves in a cometitive yet relaxed atmosphere. @
Posted 12/10/2011
by H1ghlander
Great once cricket underway but not worth VIP money (and was a gift). Didnt manage to get anything signed as VIP numbers too large and players only available for a short time. Seemed a bit chaotic. Suggest if giving out programmes these should have been signed in advance to ease up congestion.
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Review 16 for Titans of Cricket
titans of cricket
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Posted 12/10/2011
by DAAW
Location:south of London
It started off well but alot of the time it was very difficult to work out what the people on stage were saying. The female shouted in a very high pitch but we thought that was the sound people not her getting it wrong.
There was too much chat and not enough playing cricket and it got very boring. The players obviously felt the same as they didn't bother to try in the last game. Obviously the majority of the audience felt the same way as there was alot of slow clapping in the second half.
We were told 15 minutes for the interval but it was over half an hour and frankly we could have seen the whole thing in 40 minutes ! Sadly. Everyone was looking forward to seeing the players in person and that part was great. It was a waste of time and money bringing that Australian over to the UK. He just sat still and did nothing.
It wasn't just us but everyone around us were hugely disappointed in the whole event. The people beside and behind us [ alot of them] all left early.
It cost over £300.00 for my party to get to the O2 - train, boat and tube, car , to eat and the tickets for the Titans and alot of travelling time. We won't be coming to this again I'm afraid. A very badly organised p.m. The players were great but the structure of the show was awful very sadly. Sorry.
There was too much chat and not enough playing cricket and it got very boring. The players obviously felt the same as they didn't bother to try in the last game. Obviously the majority of the audience felt the same way as there was alot of slow clapping in the second half.
We were told 15 minutes for the interval but it was over half an hour and frankly we could have seen the whole thing in 40 minutes ! Sadly. Everyone was looking forward to seeing the players in person and that part was great. It was a waste of time and money bringing that Australian over to the UK. He just sat still and did nothing.
It wasn't just us but everyone around us were hugely disappointed in the whole event. The people beside and behind us [ alot of them] all left early.
It cost over £300.00 for my party to get to the O2 - train, boat and tube, car , to eat and the tickets for the Titans and alot of travelling time. We won't be coming to this again I'm afraid. A very badly organised p.m. The players were great but the structure of the show was awful very sadly. Sorry.
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Review 17 for Titans of Cricket
Shambles
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Posted 12/10/2011
by Kinetic1997
Location:Nottingham
I purchased 3 VIP tickets at a cost of over £400 pounds - what a shambles. We were promised a meet and greet and photo opportunity with all of the players - DIDN'T HAPPEN!! We were promised a talk by the team captains - DIDN'T HAPPEN!! We were promised signed memorobilia - DIDN'T HAPPEN. What did happen was a stampede of people all rushing to get a view of the few cricketers that did turn up. The whole evening was very disorganised - rehersals were going ahead whilst Jimmy Adams was trying to give his talk. Most of the players had no idea of the rules and those that did were very disinterested. The Australian captain couldn't even be bothered to leave his seat!! I understand that due to injury some players wouldn't have been available but even the replacements didn't show!!. What was evident was that most of the players were drafted in from Surrey Cricket Club - how conveniently close. My 13 year old who was looking forward to getting autographs and photographs with his heros (as we were promised) was very disappointed. The sound quality was also very poor.
Overall a very disappointing and expensive evening - good concept but needs a lot of work especially considering the price of a standard ticket - let alone VIP.
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Review 18 for Titans of Cricket
Titans of Cricket Shambles
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Posted 12/10/2011
by Anonymous
Location:Maidstone Kent
What can i say?! The players overall attitude was that they couldn't be bothered, I expected to see some true cricket skill and talent which there quite blaitantly wasn't any sign of and the whole event was very poorly organised, a complete rip off and no one seemed to know what they were meant to be doing. Freddie Flintoff who i have idolised for a very long time really didn't live up to his reputation :(. If i thought i had any chance of getting a refund i would apply for one, would not recommend this event to anyone.
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Review 19 for Titans of Cricket
titans of cricket
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Posted 12/10/2011
by mumwithboys
Location:brighton
This was so disappointing - it could have been so much fun, but was poorly executed especially by the commentators who were truly awful! My boys were there to see the cricket but they spent so much time talking there was hardly enough of that. What they should really have done is a mini indoor tournament with all the same players.
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Review 20 for Titans of Cricket
Titans of Cricket was 'just not cricket'
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Posted 11/10/2011
by fly1234
It is true what the tagline says, Titans of Cricket was not cricket. If I had wanted to see a training session, I would have gone down to my local cricket club and it would have cost me a lot less than £50.
The best part was seeing some cricketing legends, but even then, they looked confused as to what this event actually was and what they were supposed to do.
What would have been better was if they had had a mini knock out tournament or something like that. At least there would have been less chit chat, which a lot of the time seemed to be taken up with.
Some moments were even cringing when hardly anyone in the crowd was cheering, I don't know why you would expect a stadium reaction from a cricket crowd when a game is not being played.
At least you know now for next time, as I know there were quite a few people that probably thought the same as me.
The best part was seeing some cricketing legends, but even then, they looked confused as to what this event actually was and what they were supposed to do.
What would have been better was if they had had a mini knock out tournament or something like that. At least there would have been less chit chat, which a lot of the time seemed to be taken up with.
Some moments were even cringing when hardly anyone in the crowd was cheering, I don't know why you would expect a stadium reaction from a cricket crowd when a game is not being played.
At least you know now for next time, as I know there were quite a few people that probably thought the same as me.
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