NCCC News : ENGLAND V IRELAND: MATCHDAY GUIDE

We can’t wait to welcome England and Ireland’s men to our venue for a Metro Bank One Day International on Saturday 23 September.

Limited tickets remain for the contest. Secure your seats here…^[1]

If you’re joining us, read on for more information on how to make the most of your visit.

Buying tickets

Limited seats remain for this weekend’s clash. Tickets (adults from £40, juniors from £15) can be secured online here…^[2]

Accessing your tickets

If you selected the option of e-tickets, please be aware that the PDF attachment to your booking confirmation is not your match tickets.

Kindly be sure to log into your ticketing account ^[3] and download your tickets by selecting the My Orders or My Tickets option within the Account section of the site.

From there, you’ll be able to either print them at home, store them in your Apple Wallet or download them to your mobile phone.

If you opted to receive printed tickets and they have not arrived, kindly let us know via [email protected]^[4] or 0115 899 0300 so our friendly team can make the necessary arrangements.

How to find us

Trent Bridge Cricket Ground is situated in West Bridgford, in very close proximity to both Nottingham Forest and Notts County Football Clubs. Our postcode is NG2 6AG.

We have gates through which to enter the ground situated on Bridgford Road, Radcliffe Road, Hound Road and Fox Road. Your ticket will indicate which gate you should use.

Travel Information

Travelling by car

Our pre-bookable car parks at Bridge Field and the Nottinghamshire Sports Club are currently fully booked for the fixture.

Parking will be available on the day at the Nottingham Forest car park, priced at £12. Access for this can be gained off Lady Bay Bridge (NG2 3HF).

Parking will also be available on the Victoria Embankment ^[5], priced at £10. Please note that the Embankment is no longer accessible via car from the Eastern approach (near Trent Bridge), and must now be accessed via Queens Drive/ Riverside Way to the West. The postcode NG2 2GJ may assist when navigating to the car park:

Anyone travelling by car from outside the city can take advantage of NET’s seven free park & ride facilities located around Nottingham. The most convenient tram park & ride site for the A453 can be found at Clifton South (17-minute tram travel time), while parking is also available at Toton Lane (31-minute tram travel time).

If you have a spare seat in your car, or are looking for a ride, www.nottinghamshare.com ^[6], the free-to-use car share website, could save you money on your transport costs.

Travelling by tram

The Queens Walk and Meadows Embankment tram stops are located around a 20-minute walk from the ground, with the route from the Meadows Embankment stop proceeding along a pleasant stretch of the River Trent. Alternatively, a stop at Nottingham Train Station can be found just a 20-minute walk away. To help plan your journey, visit www.thetram.net ^[7].

Travelling by bus

Regular bus travel is available to the ground, with bus stops situated on Bridgford Road and Radcliffe Road.

Plan your bus journey at www.nctx.co.uk ^[8] and https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/^[9].

Travelling by train

Nottingham Station can be found a 20-minute walk from the ground, with public transport and taxis available to convey you to your destination.

To plan your journey, please visit the National Rail Enquiries website ^[10].

Taxis

A taxi rank can be found 200 yards from the ground on Bridgford Road, adjacent to the large West Bridgford Co-op. If you need to call for a taxi, some of our local operators include: Royal Cabs 0115 9608 608, Trent Cars 0115 950 5050 and Yellow Cars 0115 981 8181.

We recommend using Musters Road (near the PKF Smith Cooper Stand) or Radcliffe Road as taxi pick-up/ drop-off points.

Travelling by bicycle

Supporters planning to take their bikes to Trent Bridge are welcome to chain their bikes to the fence on the Bridge Field Car Park on Bridgford Road. Please bring a chain to secure your bike.

Bike parking will be available from two hours before scheduled start times until an hour after close of play. Kindly note that bikes are not allowed inside the ground for this fixture.

Hours of play

Gates open at 9am, with hours of play scheduled as follows:

Toss: 10.30am
First innings: 11am
Interval: 2.30pm
Second innings: 3pm
Scheduled close: 6.30pm

There is provision for an extra 30 minutes to be added on to make up for any loss in time. Kindly note that all timings are subject to change.

Free spectator Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi is available throughout Trent Bridge, which you are very welcome to use at your leisure.

Simply connect to The Cloud from the available list of wireless networks and follow the sign-in or login instructions.

Food & Drink

An array of catering options and bar facilities are on offer throughout the ground, featuring locally-sourced produce to satisfy a variety of tastes and dietary requirements.

Kindly note that all bars will be cashless, with payments accepted by card or mobile device.

All aspects of the catering offering are subject to change.

GF = gluten free options, V = vegetarian options, VE = vegan options, H = halal options

Trent Bridge Inn Courtyard

Catch of the Day, serving fish and chips (with children’s options)
The Grill, serving prime beef burgers (v)
Leg Before Fillet, serving fried chicken (h – Thai halal options)
Coffee and doughnut stall
Fudge stall
The Sound Bar serving draught beers, wines by the glass, soft drinks and alcohol-free beers, with live music
Clarke’s Crafty Ones, serving draught craft beers, gluten-free beers, alcohol-free beers, wines by the glass and soft drinks
Barrel and Bean, serving artisan bean-to-cup coffees, draught beers, alcohol-free beers, cask ales, wines and soft drinks

PKF Smith Cooper Concourse

Coffee stall
Sweetie stall
Bars serving draught beer, alcohol-free beer, wine by the glass and soft drinks

Dixon Gates

Vegetarian Rasoi, serving vegan cuisine (v/ve/gf)
Big Cheese Melt, serving cheese toasties

Ticket Office Building

The Rice Bar, located on the first floor, serving draught beer, alcohol-free beer, cask ale, wine by the glass, soft drinks and hot drinks.

Pavilion

The Long Room, a members-only facility offering a full bar with hot food

Hound Road Concourse

Jim & Tonic, serving a range of gin & tonics, mocktails and soft drinks
Wood-fired Pizzeria
The E-bar, a self-serve beer bar serving a range of options including Guinness

Fox Road Stand Concourse

Gallops Farm, serving burgers and sausages
Big Cheese Melt, serving cheese toasties
Indian Street Food Stall
Ice cream van
Bar serving draught beers, alcohol-free beers, wine by the glass and soft drinks
The E-bar, a self-serve beer bar serving a range of options including Guinness

Scoreboard (between Radcliffe Road Stand and Fox Road Stand)

Keeton’s Corner, serving draught beers, alcohol-free beers, wine by the glass, soft drinks and bean-to-cup coffee

Radcliffe Road Concourse

Surano, serving vegan cuisine (v/ve/gf)
Delilah, serving artisan deli produce
Bars serving draught beer, alcohol-free beer, Pimm’s, soft drinks, wine by the glass and bean to cup coffee
Jim & Tonic, serving a range of gin-based drinks, mocktails and soft drinks
Ice cream van

Radcliffe Road Stand

Bars on level 3, serving bottled beers, alcohol-free beers, wine by the glass and hot drinks
Bar on level 5, serving draught beers, alcohol-free beers, wine by the glass and soft drinks

Picnic hamper collection

Pre-ordered picnic hampers can be collected from Delilah, located in the Radcliffe Road Stand concourse, between 9am and 11am.

Bringing your own food and drink

You are, of course, welcome to bring your own food and soft drinks in cans, plastic or cardboard containers, but please avoid metal cutlery. Please be reminded that bringing alcohol into the ground is not permitted.

Water dispensers

Water dispensing facilities will be available around the ground if you wish to use your own refillable water bottles.

Recycling your beer cups

Delivered in conjunction with One Planet One Chance – the UK’s only carbon-neutral reusable cup solution – supporters will be able to assist Trent Bridge’s efforts to become increasingly environmentally friendly with each drink they purchase.

An extra, non-refundable £1 charged on your first drink of the day will cover the cost of washing their cup for re-use, while you will receive a fresh eco-cup at no extra cost when returning your cup to make a new drinks purchase.

By dropping your cup into a deposit bin at the end of your visit, you will play a significant part in helping Trent Bridge to reduce plastic waste by ensuring cups can be re-used on future matchdays. Via this method, we save over 250,000 single-use cups from landfill each year.

Any surplus from the initial £1 will be donated to the Trent Bridge Community Trust. Find out more about where your money will go here…^[11]

Live entertainment

The Sound Bar will play host to a live band ahead of play and during the interval, while Trent Bridge’s resident DJ, Jez Prince, will perform a set in the Fox Road concourse before the teams take to the field.

Club Shop

Don’t forget to have a look around our Club Shop, at the rear of the Radcliffe Road stand, which offers a range of England and Trent Bridge merchandise for purchase. Scorecards will also be available in the shop, priced at £1.

Additional Trent Bridge retail outlets will also be in position around the ground.

Kindly note that all retail outlets will be cashless.

Programmes, scorecards and radios

Programmes and commentary radios, broadcasting both BBC and Sky Sports commentary, will be available from vendors around the ground. If you already own commentary radios from previous international matches, they will still be operational during this fixture.

Scorecards, meanwhile, will be available from the Trent Bridge Shop outlets and the ticket office, priced at £1.

Kindly note that programmes, radios and scorecards will be available via cashless payments only.

Heritage and library

The Wynne-Thomas Library, Trent Bridge’s treasure trove of books and cricketing memorabilia, will be open from 9.30am until 3pm, and is located inside the ticket office building.

Supporters will also find a display featuring Notts heroes whose careers are recorded and celebrated in books included in the Library: the Gunn clan, Arthur Carr, Harold Larwood, Derek Randall, Sir Richard Hadlee, and Chris and Stuart Broad.

Also available are over 50 new books – for adults and children – that Nottinghamshire members are very welcome to borrow.

And there is a competition about ODIs at Trent Bridge, with a bundle of books to be won by one visitor.

Elsewhere around the ground, the museum room (off the Long Room in the Pavilion) will house displays on the story of the Women’s Ashes, and information on King Charles III’s cricketing connections.

We’ll also celebrate the talents of our late historian and librarian Peter Wynne-Thomas with a display in the ticket office building, and mark the careers of Sir Richard Hadlee and Sir Garfield Sobers with information panels on the ground floor of the Radcliffe Road Stand.

Support the Trent Bridge Community Trust

You will find contactless donation stations situated around the venue, allowing you to make a small donation to our official charity, the Trent Bridge Community Trust, using your debit/ credit card or mobile phone.

Your donations will help the Trust to provide a sporting chance to disadvantaged people across Nottinghamshire, with over £1.5m having been invested into local projects over the last decade.

Initiatives operated by the Trust include:

Positive Futures, helping young people at risk of social exclusion to hone their skills and raise their aspirations
The YouNG Project, providing placement and entrepreneurship opportunities
Healthy Hearts, promoting a healthy and active lifestyle to primary school children
Forget Me Notts, supporting individuals with dementia
Notts in Mind, using sport to boost confidence, self-esteem and fitness.

Find out more about the Trust here ^[12], or make a donation here ^[13].

Toilet, baby changing and breastfeeding facilities

Toilet facilities will be open and signposted around the ground, with stewards on hand to guide you to your nearest facility. These will include a Mobiloo accessible toilet, with an adult-sized changing bench and a hoist, situated to the rear of the Hound Road stand.

Changing facilities are available in the William Clarke Stand ladies’ toilets, the PKF Smith Cooper Stand toilets, the Hound Road ladies’ toilets, in the Radcliffe Road Stand (on the concourse, beside Radcliffe Road reception, and on the East wing of the first floor) and in the Fox Road Stand.

The changing rooms in the ticket office building can be made available upon request at the Ticket Office as further baby changing facilities accessible to men, or as a quiet feeding area.

A room on the ground floor of the Radcliffe Road Stand (on the East side) can be made available for those wishing to breastfeed. Please feel free to ask a steward or volunteer for directions.

First Aid

First Aid facilities will be available at the rear of the Radcliffe Road and PKF Smith Cooper Stands.

Accessibility at Trent Bridge

Wheelchair viewing positions are available in front of the PKF Smith Cooper Stand, Hound Road Stand and Larwood & Voce Stand, as well as the Hound Road Upper, Radcliffe Road Lower and Middle tiers and the top of the PKF Smith Cooper Stand.

Please feel free to ask your nearest steward, or volunteers wearing blue, if you have any questions regarding our accessible facilities around the ground, as they’ll be delighted to assist you.

Multi-faith room

If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle to pray, a multi-faith room has been set up in Squash Courts One and Two situated just next door to our Ticket Office. Please see a steward or volunteer if you need directions.

Junior wristbands

All spectators visiting with children can take advantage of our free wrist band system. Simply collect your band from one of our gate stewards or volunteers, or alternatively ask a member of staff on the Radcliffe Road Reception or Ticket Office.

On the reverse of your wrist band, where details are well hidden from view, simply complete the following information:

• Parent/guardian’s name• Contact phone number whilst in the ground• Your stand and seat location• Date

These details will then help a steward reunite you with your child should you become separated or should they get lost around the ground.

Alcohol and fancy dress

At Trent Bridge, we expect everyone to be courteous to their fellow spectators and that all those in attendance conduct themselves with a level of decorum befitting of the resplendent surroundings.

Kindly, therefore, be sure to regulate your alcohol intake accordingly – and help others within your party do the same. Please also note that spectators are not permitted to bring their own alcohol into the ground.

Meanwhile, we request that you refrain from visiting our venue whilst clothed in inappropriate fancy dress outfits that are liable to cause offence to children and young families.

Reporting discrimination

If you are aware of or witness discrimination at any level of cricket in Nottinghamshire, including matches at Trent Bridge, we urge you to report it to us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.

You can do so by sending a text message to 88440 with further details, starting your message with ‘Notts’.

Alternatively, telephone 0115 982 3000, email [email protected]^[14], or write to the HR Manager, Trent Bridge, Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6AG

Leaving and re-entering the venue

You are most welcome to exit the venue during the course of your visit. Please be sure to check in with a steward as you leave in order to be permitted re-entry.

Safety and security

Our stewards will be on hand to ensure that you are safe and secure throughout your day at Trent Bridge and should be your first port of call if you see anything that you may consider dangerous or suspicious.

We ask that you travel light and bring only essential items. Bags are best left at home although we do allow small ones through the gates.

We are, unfortunately, unable to accommodate large travel bags (suitcases or holdalls) at the venue. Should you be travelling via rail, Nottingham railway station have facilities for bag storage.

Any bags you do bring with you will be searched upon entry, so please arrive in good time.

Note that our usual ground regulations continue to apply. Find out more about safety & security at Trent Bridge here…^[15]^[16]

Cameras and mobile devices

Please note that the use of any cameras, mobile devices or any electronic equipment for the recording, transmission or communication of match footage, details, statistics, images (on any platforms including but not limited to websites and social media) etc, is not permitted, other than with the proper accreditation. All ground regulations apply.

You can, however, take pictures for your own personal use, providing you do not use specialist equipment such as telephoto lenses, tripods or mono pods.

Accredited photographers will be present during the match and will be taking images for use on printed marketing materials and digital channels. If you or anyone in your party would not like photographing, then please inform our photographer or your nearest steward.

You can view a full list of ground regulations here.^[17]

After the match

Just a few hours after close of play, look out for your exclusive email to those that purchased tickets. It includes reaction to the game, photographs and the opportunity to provide feedback on your matchday experience with us. Please feel free to forward this communication to those that attended the fixture with you.

Any questions?

If you find yourself in need of assistance, please contact our friendly team at [email protected]^[18], or by telephone to 0115 899 0300, and we will come back to you as quickly as we can.

Members of our friendly team will also be available in person in the Ticket Office to resolve any issues you may encounter during the fixture.

Ticket refund policy

If, for the day for which the ticket is valid, play does not take place OR play is restricted, you will be entitled to a refund of only the match ticket value subject to there being: (a) zero to 15 overs played and no result is obtained – a full refund; (b) 15.1 overs to 30 overs played and no result is obtained – a 50% refund. In no other circumstances can money be refunded.

In respect of tickets purchased in advance for the day on which this ticket is valid, the refund process will be commenced automatically by Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club to the original purchaser only. Any refunds will be processed either by refunding to the debit or credit card used to make the purchase.

For refund queries, please contact our ticket office via [email protected]^[19] or 0115 899 0300. Further information is available at www.ecb.co.uk/refundscheme ^[20]. Please allow 30 days for the refund process to take place.

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