Aussie cricket great Shane Watson praised the concept.
"How good does it look?" he said in commentary. "The families caged in, how good would that be with a young family as well? With a little toddler starting to crawl, just to be able to cage them in to really enjoy the cricket out there? Very wise."
Speaking on Sport Sunday, Socceroos legend Craig Foster called the concept "hysterical".
On social media, some people loved the idea, some people labelled the fans "sheep" for sitting in the pods, while other just wanted to make jokes, with one fan even labelling it a Squid Game concept.
The UAE has had more than 2000 deaths during the Covid pandemic but have an 86.8 per cent fully vaccinated population, averaging just over 100 new cases per day and one death.
The ICC announced the pods earlier this month in a statement, revealing that they would allow the stadiums in the UAE to operate at 70 per cent capacity.
Abu Dhabi Cricket chief Matt Boucher said: "Thanks to the incredible work of the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, Department of Health and Abu Dhabi Sports Council, we are now able to safely increase our maximum seat capacity to 70 per cent and introduce new socially distanced pods of four spectators to our west and east grass mounds.
"This brings our capacity up to well over 10,000 as we ready ourselves to hear the real roar of cricket's incredible fans."
