Cricket 2009/10

[beastjim]

International Cricket seems to be on the slide up here in Brisbane, or perhaps just cricket in general. Hopefully the Ashes might just return the buzz place. But geez I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't sell out.....
Then again that is perhaps ODI's not being as relevant and having to compete against live against the gate around Australia now.

[Rob]

Channel 9 are spending half their time talking up the crowd at the SCG today - about 30,000, which I would have thought would have been at the lower end of expectations. It wasn't that long ago that SCG ODI's would sell out well before the game.

The game on Friday still rated reasonably - the 2nd innings averaged over a million people.

[cam]

Thanks for the article Rob, always good to see references to Austadiums!

While on the Cricket, go the mighty Vics making it 4 from 5 domestic Twenty20 titles on Saturday night in Adelaide. Had to laugh at the main headline on the back page of the Advertiser today... "BLOODY VICS" haha up yours pissants!

[Simmo79]

Channel 9 are spending half their time talking up the crowd at the SCG today - about 30,000, which I would have thought would have been at the lower end of expectations. It wasn't that long ago that SCG ODI's would sell out well before the game.

The game on Friday still rated reasonably - the 2nd innings averaged over a million people.

the 30k might be related to the game being a d/n played on a Sunday.

[the crow]

Well it is Australia v Pakistan...not the best attended games a the best of times

If they are not worried about attendance....why is cricket Australia trying to move cricket to ANZ...30k out there would be terrible.. (36% of capacity...not a good look ACB)

ABC Grandstand was discussing test cricket numbers during the Tassy test (after Robucks hiding in the paper,) and per capita Hobart is the best attended game.

[cam]

per capita. lol.

[Rob]

Well it is Australia v Pakistan...not the best attended games a the best of times

If they are not worried about attendance....why is cricket Australia trying to move cricket to ANZ...30k out there would be terrible.. (36% of capacity...not a good look ACB)

ABC Grandstand was discussing test cricket numbers during the Tassy test (after Robucks hiding in the paper,) and per capita Hobart is the best attended game.

Great, so let's stop playing tests in Melbourne and Sydney and play them in Wagga, Townsville and Geelong so we can have better per capita attendances.

[the crow]

Henderson Oval at Wagga would be a great place to watch a game.

Infact you would hold it on Christmas island where you have a captive audiance...100% attendance

[Simmo79]

It’s like a switch has been flicked and the cricket public has decided that it no longer cares about ODIs. From now on it’s T20.

I thought that if ODI were to be overtaken it would be a gradual process not one where you could clearly identify a time when one replaced the other in the public consciousness.

[yob]

BRING BACK THE SIGNS

[Jeffles]

It’s like a switch has been flicked and the cricket public has decided that it no longer cares about ODIs. From now on it’s T20.

I thought that if ODI were to be overtaken it would be a gradual process not one where you could clearly identify a time when one replaced the other in the public consciousness.

T20 has quickly made it look slow, which by comparison it is. It's all relative.

Scheduling is a problem. As virtually every columnist is saying today, they shouldn't haveput it on the same weekend as the T20. People will choose one given how dear it is to go to the cricket.

There is still a place for it IMO.

[broncos]

I can't believe Cricket Australia are going to persist with the same ODI schedule next season and then a tri-series the year after. People want to see T20, 50 over cricket is well and truly dead yet they're the only cricketing body in the world that doesn't see that. If crowds of 8000 in Adelaide, 14 000 in Perth, 25 000 in Melbourne and 19 000 in Brisbane are seen as good by CA, theres something seriously wrong.

[Jeffles]

I think T20 and F50 should both be best of three but the England series should go best of 5. That'd be 14 limited over games. This year there were 13. It's a no brainer.

[Rob]

I can't believe Cricket Australia are going to persist with the same ODI schedule next season and then a tri-series the year after. People want to see T20, 50 over cricket is well and truly dead yet they're the only cricketing body in the world that doesn't see that. If crowds of 8000 in Adelaide, 14 000 in Perth, 25 000 in Melbourne and 19 000 in Brisbane are seen as good by CA, theres something seriously wrong.

CA generally haven't exactly embraced change in the past. It's usually forced on them by others which results in them begrudgingly accepting it.

They do remain one of the worlds more progressive cricket bodies though.

[beastjim]

They did agree to play the first T20 International, over in NZ IIRC. They were also very supportive in agreeing to cancel the tour of Pakistan so all the Aussies could play in the first IPL.
I don't think they are traditionalists as such, they just tend to like to stick to what they know rakes in the money.