to take 9 month old ds to a cricket match?

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Disclaimer: I know nothing about cricket so have no idea if doing so would make me the worst mother ever!
Dh and friends are going to a 20/20 cricket match on Saturday which starts at lunchtime. Their wives are now also going to get drunk and I have been invited but would need to take ds. How feasible is this? Do people take babies to such an event? Ds loves seeing new people and going to new places but prefers to be eg on his playmat rather than being held on someone's lap. Ive asked dh and he thinks there will be 'somewhere' ds can be down playing and is confident that there will be changing facilities as the cricket ground also hosts family events. But equally dh does have form for saying 'yeah yeah everything will be fine' without planning ahead in my slightly scary military fashion.

Wwyd?

Should add I would definitely not drink alcohol if I was to take ds.

Is it just a local team game or a big county match?

DD would never see DH at weekends if we didn't take her to cricket matches. They tend to be very family orientated. With a twenty/20 match you'll have to keep your eye on the ball at bit more though.

Not sure I'd take DD to an ashes match but a local club, no problem.

Dh says county match- I hadn't thought to ask so thanks! They aren't expecting a sellout as such as not 'big names' he says. Good to know they are generally family friendly affairs.

Take him!

It's fine. There'll be lots of children there

Even at lords, there's loads of babies

Yes, take him

I go to cricket a lot. I took my 6 month old son to his first match recently, a champions trophy match at edgbaston. I had a battle taking in the pushchair but they relented eventually as I'd arranged it specially with the ground in advance. There were no nappy changing facilities where I was (in the member's stand next to the press box). The good people of Edgbaston were also far from thrilled at having a baby in their midst even though he was very well behaved, although they can take that attitude and shove it as far as i'm concerned. As to whether your trip will work, this depends on:

• whether you need to take a pushchair - you'll be unlikely to be able to take it in unless you can fold it to fit under the seats.

• whereabouts you are in the ground. if you tell me which ground you're going to i may be able to give you some better information. If you're in a members' pavilion then there should be a bar area where you may be able to lie him down to play but if you're in the stands then the only real option is likely to be the concrete of the stand so I'm not sure what your DH has in mind.

As to whether t20 is family-friendly... It's a funny mix, in my view. On the one hand it's sold as a family event, a shorter easily-digestible form of cricket with lots of big hitting and none of that pesky blocking out for a draw that you get in a test match. But on the other hand, the "non-serious" nature of it does mean that some people see it as an ideal opportunity for a massive piss up with some cricket in the background. Much depends on the venue and game I reckon. Eg there's no way on earth I'd take my son to a weekday after-work game at one of the London grounds (was drunkenly verbally abused once when a man walked into me and spilt about a tablespoon of his pint, and this was at the start of play so you can imagine what it was like at the end). But the game currently on tv, lancs v Derbyshire, looks nice and quiet so I'd have no problem taking him there.

We took all our DSes as toddlers onwards. A baby would possibly easier! Lucky you-very envious.

I went to county cricket matches all the time growing up. They were very family friendly so I'd take him

take him, and have a lovely time!