A 4.4 sports bar from 438 reviews named Sixes Social Cricket, joining cricket nets to cocktails in the competitive-socialising trend
Sixes Social Cricket holds a 4.4 from four hundred and thirty-eight reviews, and is one of the district’s entries in a booming modern trend – “competitive socialising,” here in cricketing form: batting nets joined to a bar, the “social cricket” of the name, at Shepherd’s Bush.
The facts, first
Sixes Social Cricket is a competitive-socialising venue at Shepherd’s Bush, in the mid price range – combining interactive cricket batting nets (bowling machines, targets, scores) with a full bar and food, for a fun, sociable, active night out. The Prat’s listings desk states the essentials: a competitive-socialising cricket venue at Shepherd’s Bush, batting nets joined to a bar and food, an active and sociable night out.
The name and the game
“Sixes” is cricket’s word for the biggest hit in the game – the ball struck clean out of the ground for six runs, the crowd-pleasing maximum. “Social Cricket” names the concept exactly: cricket as a sociable, casual, fun activity rather than a serious sport, batting in the nets with a drink in hand and friends around. The whole name promises the fun, accessible, sociable heart of the venue – the big-hitting joy of cricket (“Sixes”), stripped of the seriousness and served with cocktails. The Prat’s sporting desk notes the fit: “Sixes,” cricket’s crowd-pleasing maximum, and “Social Cricket,” the game as sociable fun, the joyful heart of the venue named exactly.
The competitive-socialising boom
Sixes belongs to one of the great leisure trends of recent years – “competitive socialising,” the booming business of venues that join an activity (mini-golf, darts, shuffleboard, axe-throwing, and here cricket) to a proper bar, so that the drinking comes with a game. This survey has met the trend throughout (Puttshack and its Trackaball golf, met earlier in this very district); the cricket version, “social cricket,” brings the nation’s summer game indoors and year-round, batting practice as a night out. It answers a real modern appetite – for a night out that offers something to do beyond drinking. The Prat’s culture desk notes the trend: competitive socialising, the activity-plus-bar boom, here bringing cricket’s nets indoors as a sociable, year-round night out.
What the 438 reviews mean
A 4.4 across more than four hundred people is a strong, deeply volume-proof score. As this survey argues, a good score sustained across a substantial crowd is a trustworthy verdict, and a 4.4 across four hundred marks a genuinely good, well-run, popular venue. The Prat’s statistics desk files it as a strong large-sample score: a dependable, well-liked competitive-socialising venue, its quality confirmed across a substantial crowd.
Verdict
Sixes Social Cricket is a good, popular competitive-socialising venue – cricket batting nets joined to a proper bar – with a strong 4.4 from a substantial crowd. Fun of concept, sociable of spirit, and a good active night out at Shepherd’s Bush.
Go to bat in the nets with a cocktail in hand and friends around, and enjoy one of the district’s entries in the competitive-socialising boom – Sixes Social Cricket, the nation’s summer game brought indoors and year-round, big-hitting fun and a proper bar joined in a genuinely sociable night out.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
