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The Hundred 2023


Wednesday 9th August
Women 11.30am
Trent Rockers v Northern Supercharges
Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Men 3pm
Trent Rockers v Northern Supercharges
Trent Bridge, Nottingham


Women 3pm
Oval Invincibles v Manchester Originals
The Kia Oval, London

Men 6.30pm
Oval Invincibles v Manchester Originals
The Kia Oval, London
 
Aside from all the done-to-death arguments, looks like there might be a full, uninterupted day of cricket today. Weather looking good in Nottingham and London (and everywhere else for that matter).
 
Iamme said:
11,200 is a bad crowd? Lancs T20 average is 6-7,000.

Record women's crowd of 7500.

Lancs whole season county championship attendees is 4-5000.

Ok then..poor crowd.
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Like to see the source for this because the aggregate championship attendance in particular looks absurdly low, and I speak as someone who bangs on here about county cricket’s main problem being that “no bugger goes”.

I suspect that’s a pay at the gate total, perhaps lifted from published accounts. And you need to consider that most people at a championship game are members, and whereas in football they pretend every season ticket holder turns up to every game, cricket does the opposite so you’ve probably not counted them at all. The same may be true, to a lesser extent, for the Blast, depending on how counties offer that.

Championship attendances are certainly woefully short of enough to support a full time professional structure but It’s generally reckoned that the average daily bums on seats figure at the championship bounces around the thousand mark, and Lancashire are better supported than most with a large membership, so they’ll not be at the <200 your aggregate suggests.
 
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Fleagle said:
Like to see the source for this because the aggregate championship attendance in particular looks absurdly low, and I speak as someone who bangs on here about county cricket’s main problem being that “no bugger goes”.

I suspect that’s a pay at the gate total, perhaps lifted from published accounts. And you need to consider that most people at a championship game are members, and whereas in football they pretend every season ticket holder turns up to every game, cricket does the opposite so you’ve probably not counted them at all. The same may be true, to a lesser extent, for the Blast, depending on how counties offer that.

Championship attendances are certainly woefully short of enough to support a full time professional structure but It’s generally reckoned that the daily bums on seats figure at the championship bounces around the thousand mark, and Lancashire are better supported than most with a large membership, so they’ll not be at the <200 your aggregate suggests.
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The poster regularly posts made up stats in support of the 16.4, it's extremely wierd behaviour.
 
Fleagle said:
Like to see the source for this because the aggregate championship attendance in particular looks absurdly low, and I speak as someone who bangs on here about county cricket’s main problem being that “no bugger goes”.

I suspect that’s a pay at the gate total, perhaps lifted from published accounts. And you need to consider that most people at a championship game are members, and whereas in football they pretend every season ticket holder turns up to every game, cricket does the opposite so you’ve probably not counted them at all. The same may be true, to a lesser extent, for the Blast, depending on how counties offer that.

Championship attendances are certainly woefully short of enough to support a full time professional structure but It’s generally reckoned that the average daily bums on seats figure at the championship bounces around the thousand mark, and Lancashire are better supported than most with a large membership, so they’ll not be at the <200 your aggregate suggests.
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Steak Pie said:
The poster regularly posts made up stats in support of the 16.4, it's extremely wierd behaviour.
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Here's last year's attendances at the blast for the 8 grounds used in the hundred.

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The article asks Why can't T20 have the big audiences here that they have in Australia and India.

Several reasons -

Smaller ground capacities

No T20 cricket on BBC

No money to buy the very best players and have a 5 overseas players rule.

England is very much football obsessed. A distraction that doesn't exist in these other countries.
 
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