Lancs vs Leicestershire

[Aleem Dar]

Starting at 12:30 on everyday, with the end time being 7:30pm. Tickets after 4pm will be £5 for adults and £1 for kids.

 

[Carteron]

Common Sense!! What on earth is going on!!

 

[Porridge]

Common Sense!! What on earth is going on!!

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[wayne entwhistle no9]

Sounds good will not make any difference to the size of the crowd, and most of the regulars (members) would prefer a normal start and finish times. It is the same as why there is virtually no championship cricket played on a Saturday, because lots county members have other things to do on a Saturday (normally local club cricket) and the attendences are lower on a Saturday as a result. Counties have tried all these tricks over the past 30 years and they do nothing to increase the attendance because the people who are regulars actually don't want any change and the people they are hoping to attract don't turn up.

 

[Aleem Dar]

Sounds good will not make any difference to the size of the crowd, and most of the regulars (members) would prefer a normal start and finish times. It is the same as why there is virtually no championship cricket played on a Saturday, because lots county members have other things to do on a Saturday (normally local club cricket) and the attendences are lower on a Saturday as a result. Counties have tried all these tricks over the past 30 years and they do nothing to increase the attendance because the people who are regulars actually don't want any change and the people they are hoping to attract don't turn up.

It may well make no difference, but they need to be given credit for trying something that isn't set in stone by the ECB.

Out of interest, what has been tried over the last 30 years?

 

[wayne entwhistle no9]

It may well make no difference, but they need to be given credit for trying something that isn't set in stone by the ECB.

Out of interest, what has been tried over the last 30 years?

They tried starting matches at 1.30pm mid summer years ago to try and get more people in after work it lasted one season. They have tried starting matches on every day of the week trying to get more people into the grounds. All the counties have found is that the regulars (members) like to watch their county cricket between 11am and 6pm during the week.
It must be the only pro sport that does not see the weekends as the most important time to play.
No changes can be made to the structure of county cricket without the support of the majority of counties. They very nearly voted against the introduction of t20 cricket a decade ago, that shrewdy from Durham Harker had the casting vote and voted in favour.

 

[Aidan11]

I'm not a fan of late starts/finishes but that's because I live 25m away from the ground and have to get home on unreliable public transport.

Anyone who goes to the CC games will notice a number of people shoot off at tea time or soon after. There may be various reasons - transport, maybe just happy to see a couple of sessions etc.

The fact is the ECB could say that every day of every domestic game all season is free entry and you still couldn't guarantee large crowds on a regular basis. With cricket you either love it or hate it and the gap between Football and cricket has widened in popularity over the last 20 years.

There are many who follow the game but do so from their armchair on tv or on the internet. The ECB look at the IPL and think "We should be doing that". Well sorry but you can't. Cricket is virtually a religion in India. They love it more than we love football. But the ECB want to tinker with T20 at the expense of the County Championship. So what happens when they get their wish and T20 becomes the main attraction? Only people don't go anymore because they are bored with it? And there are no more county members because most of them only watch the 4-day stuff but there isn't much of that left anymore?

It's about time those "cricket loving" suits at the ECB started loving cricket again and forget about the pound coins.

 

[Mackem DJ]

They very nearly voted against the introduction of t20 cricket a decade ago, that shrewdy from Durham Harker had the casting vote and voted in favour.

I remember Bob Willis absolutely panning it when they discussed the idea on Sky.

"As if you would drag superstars like Mushtaq Ahmed hundreds of miles away to bowl 4 overs"

 

[wayne entwhistle no9]

I'm not a fan of late starts/finishes but that's because I live 25m away from the ground and have to get home on unreliable public transport.

Anyone who goes to the CC games will notice a number of people shoot off at tea time or soon after. There may be various reasons - transport, maybe just happy to see a couple of sessions etc.

The fact is the ECB could say that every day of every domestic game all season is free entry and you still couldn't guarantee large crowds on a regular basis. With cricket you either love it or hate it and the gap between Football and cricket has widened in popularity over the last 20 years.

There are many who follow the game but do so from their armchair on tv or on the internet. The ECB look at the IPL and think "We should be doing that". Well sorry but you can't. Cricket is virtually a religion in India. They love it more than we love football. But the ECB want to tinker with T20 at the expense of the County Championship. So what happens when they get their wish and T20 becomes the main attraction? Only people don't go anymore because they are bored with it? And there are no more county members because most of them only watch the 4-day stuff but there isn't much of that left anymore?

It's about time those "cricket loving" suits at the ECB started loving cricket again and forget about the pound coins.

I agree with most of what you say, but if the ECB don't raise enough money the professional game in this country will die. The 18 counties are charities who rely on the £2.2 milion they get each year of the ECB to survive.
If you look at Durham they are incapable of doing anything major without handouts from the ECB, the latest being the foodlights, or giving up part of their ground like what they did with the fancy gym in exchange for them building the double decker stand.
As far as county championship cricket goes i have said for years it should be free entry, the club would probably make as much money on people calling in and spending a few quid on a pint or some food. The money they actually make from membership is chicken feed in real terms. They could charge on the day or have season tickets for the one day stuff.

 

[Struts]

They tried starting matches at 1.30pm mid summer years ago to try and get more people in after work it lasted one season. They have tried starting matches on every day of the week trying to get more people into the grounds. All the counties have found is that the regulars (members) like to watch their county cricket between 11am and 6pm during the week.
It must be the only pro sport that does not see the weekends as the most important time to play.
No changes can be made to the structure of county cricket without the support of the majority of counties. They very nearly voted against the introduction of t20 cricket a decade ago, that shrewdy from Durham Harker had the casting vote and voted in favour.

Think you're referencing to the time Kent & Glamorgan played a CC match under lights. Only reason it didn't work was because they did it in the back-end of September.

 

[wayne entwhistle no9]

Think you're referencing to the time Kent & Glamorgan played a CC match under lights. Only reason it didn't work was because they did it in the back-end of September.

No iam talking about 20/25 years ago where a lot of counties tried to play their county matches in June and July starting early afternoon so people could watch a fair bit of a days cricket early evening, it did not work and lasted one season. A long time before floodlights came into domestic cricket with sky tv.
Lets face it county cricket is cheap entertainment for people with a lot of time on their hands, or those who live close to a county ground and can use it like the local club and pop in for a sessions play.