A few stats:
– More than 9.5 million viewers watched the three Tests between Australia and Pakistan in 2024, a 54% increase compared to Pakistan’s previous tour
– In Australia during the 2023 World Cup, there were 602 hours of live coverage with 3.79 billion minutes of live viewing, 92 per cent more than in 2011. There was also a huge increase in the overall Australian audience, with 9.1 million people watching the 2023 event compared to the 2019 edition in England and Wales that attracted 6.1 million viewers.
– Pakistan drew a crowd of 61,552 on day one of Boxing Day in 2004. 20 years later, it drew 62,167
All the numbers seem to indicate that junior participation is on the rise or steady across the board from what I’ve seen.
So I’m curious, where is this alleged “death of cricket” that I saw people discussing an hour ago?
Source: TheCricketFan416
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Just a bunch of old farts who don’t play cricket themselves anymore and so think it has died
I can’t help but think:
1. You could have contributed to the other thread
2. You’ve cherry picked Statistics. Surely you can accept some cherry picked stats show the opposite argument?
3. You’ve ignored that Australia’s population has grown 30% in 20 years, but attendance remained the same…. and the different time zones of world cups.
I haven’t ever watched a cricket match, played cricket and nor will I ever
Dogshit dying sport. No one gives a shit about people hitting a ball with a stick. Going to get surpassed by fkn basketball, lmao.
Old people and south Asian immigrants keeping cricket afloat .
People have been saying cricket is dying since the 80s, but it’s still comfortably our national sport
It’s not dying, it’s dead already. Good riddance.
its been a long time since i heard or played cricket….have none to play with anymore. (id happily go and watch if i had the money)