How often do you attend domestic cricket?

[puddingfactor]

This question has often been posed a number of times, but Darren Berry wrote an article the other day about how more of Victoria's Pura Cup and ING matches should be played in the country, especially considering the poor crowds they get in Melbourne.

I'm sure it is not just a Melbourne thing.

My question is how often do people here go to watch ING and Pura Cup matches? Do you attend internationals as well - or maybe just domestic cricket.

There is no doubt there is at least some interest in domestic cricket - there is always lively discussion here, for example.

Although there is no TV coverage, it gets good support with live coverage on the weekends on the ABC and it gets a fair bit of space in the papers.

However, put all that media coverage and supposed interest, and compare it to the crowds, and it just doesn't add up.

Despite relatively cheap admission prices, the crowds just aren't there. This is supposedly the best first class competition in the world - but the comp is losing a lot of money, and our next group of Aussie stars deserve a little better.

[Alkaline]

I hardly ever go to watch the cricket. Although i have been to the Boxing Day test for the last 2 years and it is always a good day. As for ODI cricket i havnt been to many and domestic, i have never been to one.

[Minotaur]

I used to go when I was a young man with no commitments.

Now I will very occasionally drop in on the way home from work.

I do think there is a fair amount of residual interest in state cricket, as is probably evidenced by the number of hits the CA site gets on the web score update.

It is a real shame that CA (or whoever runs baggy green) terminated the live ball-by-ball updates. They took them off a year or two ago in orer to "upgrade the service" and it never came back.

[Ricketts]

Domestic Cricket is a joke.

Never.

I'd only go if it were a 20/20 match.

[eddiesmith]

Quite often, go to more Pura Cup cricket than International cricket, rarely go to the ING cup as its quite often either on a Saturday or on TV when on a Sunday

[usalion]

When I lived in Oz, I was at all days of the Shield matches- grad students had that luxury and flexibility with their schedules....were I down there now, I'd be out to as much of the Shield as I could see- and the test as the high point of the year.

One dayers if they fit into my schedule- just because it is a day out, not because I'm all that concerned with results...drink a few cold ones, chat with my mates in the club....

Australia still has the best domestic comp going....