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Interesting article in The Age today having a crack at Cricket Australia and their census figures.
Interested in people's experiences locally. How healthy are your clubs and associations?
I've found that the 'rich' areas, private schools and places with largely Anglo Saxon demographic still have cricket as a sport of choice.
Whereas low socio economic areas and more multi-cultural areas the game barely makes a ripple.
What's left are a few cricket strongholds that are increasingly relied upon to produce all the cricketers, both in number and quality.
Caught out: Cricket's inflated playing numbers revealed
The number of registered club cricketers is less than half what Cricket Australia claims, a Sun-Herald investigation has shown.
www.theage.com.au
Caught out: Cricket's inflated playing numbers revealed
Cricket Australia’s claim that 1.65 million Australians play the sport is a significant overstatement and numbers have been inflated for several years.
The peak cricketing body's Australian Cricket Census, published on June 30, claimed that one in 15 Australians played cricket in 2018-19. That includes nearly a million children playing in sport classes at school and almost 700,000 registered club cricketers.
The report stated there were 684,356 registered club cricketers, drawn from Cricket Australia's own MyCricket database. However, The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age can reveal thousands of players have multiple entries. Manually counting unique cricketers in that same database, our analysis found just 247,060 players, less than half what is claimed.
While Cricket Australia has been reporting annually increasing participation, club cricket administrators say they have been losing numbers at an alarming rate, particularly among males aged 16 and over. The number of clubs has fallen from 4200 to 3500 in the past decade, during which period the peak body has claimed a rise in "participants" from 600,000 to 1.65 million.
Interested in people's experiences locally. How healthy are your clubs and associations?
I've found that the 'rich' areas, private schools and places with largely Anglo Saxon demographic still have cricket as a sport of choice.
Whereas low socio economic areas and more multi-cultural areas the game barely makes a ripple.
What's left are a few cricket strongholds that are increasingly relied upon to produce all the cricketers, both in number and quality.