Last summer the most popular team on the planet started the last day in Perth 5-125 with an improbably but still outside chance of winning the test, at a world class venue in a city that is - I think - bigger than Brisbane, and drew 10k.
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They need to play quality teams too, don't they? Otherwise there's little value in playing with themselves..... in the sense they need to compete or it all eventualy folds,,,,im sure they might enjoy playing with themselves, none the less competing against us and others is an avenue they use to acquire a degree of socio/economic credit/note in their role as the sub continental parvenu...........Hence we can afford to apply a little energy to at least not appear as though we bend over with such joy...Unfortunately India pay the bills in test cricket now, just look at our matches against Pakistan.
Terrible crowds, terrible ratings.. we NEED to play India and England or CA will go broke
For interest sake, do the ratings take into account Kayo streams? Or are they only counting channel 7 and fox viewers on TV?
They do not include Kayo figures.i’d assume they include kayo. it wouldn’t be hard for kayo to get some numbers.
Not super invested in comparing, but population increase has to be taken into account when comparing crowd sizes. The population of the whole of Queensland was about 3.5 million as of 2000 census data, as of 2018 its 5 million with 2.5 million in Brisbane metropolitan area.Has it been lost on everyone that this crowd was bigger than the one in Gilchrist’s debut against the same opposition 20 years ago?
This isn’t exactly an out of the blue occurrence
In the past 100 years, how many times has the MCG gotten 6k crowds for a game? You keep changing the goal posts.
This is not the place for it, but I heard we're hosting India here next year.
Why? We played them last year and tend to host them once every 4 years.
We should be due to play the Saffas.
They need to play quality teams too, don't they? Otherwise there's little value in playing with themselves..... in the sense they need to compete or it all eventualy folds,,,,im sure they might enjoy playing with themselves, none the less competing against us and others is an avenue they use to acquire a degree of socio/economic credit/note in their role as the sub continental parvenu...........Hence we can afford to apply a little energy to at least not appear as though we bend over with such joy...
you missed the point its not about cash as far as they are concerned not when playing us and others its about cudos and prestige....in the parlance of social behaviour its about social climbing in a nationalistic sense. They are an emerging massive populace they need to be achieving in all manner of avenues..they cant let go of that...and if they tried they may still make fortunes within their own borders but they then loose much much more. so yes you quite missed the line and length.India have 1.3 billion people, they could play Canada and still rake in huge amounts of cash.
Heard a funny interview with him when he bounced England out in England, I think it was first test 3 years ago or so? When asked about bowling bouncers, he said, 'I didn't want to, I wanted to bowl properly but the captain told me I had to, and if the captain says so you have to do it, so I bowled bouncers' or something along those lines, and he still didn't look happy about it, even though he'd taken a five for and pretty much helped win the match for India.For a long time with Sharma the pervading view was that he was perpetually unlucky and beat the bat a lot where others would draw the edge. That turned to ‘well maybe there’s a bit more to it than bad luck’ but maybe now looking back, the original view was the correct one
He was always seemingly the first quick picked for the dead Indian wickets and the first dropped overseas when he would have thrived too so that might have had an impact
It’ll be interesting to compare the crowds at the upcoming Adelaide test with Brisbane’s. You wouldn’t think there’d be any less than 20k there on Friday and 30k on both Saturday and Sunday. Day/night test though so not apples v apples.
Agree with the point about Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney having the more rusted on Test fans. Does seem a lot more common for people to make a point of going to at least one day of those tests year in, year out.
Don’t agree that Brisbane’s crowds would be replicated if the same game was played at the same time at the MCG. You’d probably have a lot of punters taking leave to go and watch the first couple of days at least. Crowds wouldn’t be anything like the Boxing Day Test, but assuming good weather you could have 30-40k rock up on the first three days.
Johnson absoloutelt destroyed India and South Africa in a couple innings and has some absoloutely filthy days aswell. Starc doesn't have the same highs, he just cashes in on the tail.I don't really get the criticism of Starc, but do remember Mitchell Johnson being something of a whipping boy until he turned into a veritable demon bowler @ 32yo. His Test record is superficially similar to Starc's.
What I fail to understand is why aren't teams forced to bowl their 90 overs, and if you are short, you are docked runs in your innings
In a test in Adelaide in 1961 West Indies bowled 114 overs in a day. And they were eight ball overs. Being able to bowl 90 overs in a day should be a piece of piss. Start penalising sides by taking away runs and slow over rates will soon stop.
That's very interesting.They do not include Kayo figures.
Johnson absoloutelt destroyed India and South Africa in a couple innings and has some absoloutely filthy days aswell. Starc doesn't have the same highs, he just cashes in on the tail.
The first thing that needs to happen is the Umpires enforce drinks breaks and police the whole “I need gloves, my pads are itchy, someone moved in the fourth tier of the stand, I got hit on the thigh pad and now I’m mortally wounded type stuff.
It’s not all the bowling sides’ fault champ. In fact I’d go as far as to say they’re the lesser contributors in the current environment. How about batsmen being ready when the bowler reaches the top of their mark. It shouldn’t come as a shock that they got there, they do it 6 times each over.
Disclaimer - I’m an ex fast bowler.
Adelaide members will turn up and get on it even if we're playing an Uzbeki underage XI.It’ll be interesting to compare the crowds at the upcoming Adelaide test with Brisbane’s. You wouldn’t think there’d be any less than 20k there on Friday and 30k on both Saturday and Sunday. Day/night test though so not apples v apples.
Agree with the point about Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney having the more rusted on Test fans. Does seem a lot more common for people to make a point of going to at least one day of those tests year in, year out.
Don’t agree that Brisbane’s crowds would be replicated if the same game was played at the same time at the MCG. You’d probably have a lot of punters taking leave to go and watch the first couple of days at least. Crowds wouldn’t be anything like the Boxing Day Test, but assuming good weather you could have 30-40k rock up on the first three days.
In Starc's career who would you consider to be a good batting line up?I genuinely can’t think off the top of my head of a single test performance when Starc gave it to a good batting line up.
Off the top of my head I would say South Africa in the early part and India.In Starc's career who would you consider to be a good batting line up?
So 1.5 teams out of the 8 test playing nations he's played against? Jesus!Off the top of my head I would say South Africa in the early part and India.