One thing i dont understand?

[deira]

I still dont understand this. Whenever a cricket match is being played on a weekday (Monday to Friday) how come there are so many people watching the game in the stadium? I mean are these guys just rich, dont have to go to work?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I still dont understand this. Whenever a cricket match is being played on a weekday (Monday to Friday) how come there are so many people watching the game in the stadium? I mean are these guys just rich, dont have to go to work?

People book their holidays from work when there's a big match in town, some will just phone up work and pretend to be sick, some will be members who have either retired through age or wealth. Not forgetting the housewives who have nothing else to do.

 

[archie mac]

And here in Aust it is the holiday season

 

[Turbinator]

And here in Aust it is the holiday season

Tis' the season to be jolly falalalalalalalalalala.
Deck the halls with Santa's balls falalallalalalalalalla.

 

[iamdavid]

Yeah in Australia most of the internationals are at the height of summer when most people are on holidays anyway...On the subcontinent I'm sure alot of fans prioritise their cricket over work...and everywhere else you hardly see stands swarming with people at the best of times.

 

[Prince EWS]

There's also the fact that a growing number of people have their "weekend" in the middle of the week somewhere and work on Saturday and Sunday. The corporate doesn't just stop on Friday afternoon anymore.

 

[eglezdzdiyd]

sickies ftw!

 

[skipper]

Yeah in Australia most of the internationals are at the height of summer when most people are on holidays anyway...On the subcontinent I'm sure alot of fans prioritise their cricket over work...and everywhere else you hardly see stands swarming with people at the best of times.

Not true. Most of the stadia these days are filled with college students who AWOL from school.

 

[Burgey]

There's also the fact that a growing number of people have their "weekend" in the middle of the week somewhere and work on Saturday and Sunday. The corporate doesn't just stop on Friday afternoon anymore.

That's because of the policy formerly known as Workchoices - people don't get normal weekends any more to be with families, etc.
No doubt or new, glrious leader will change that - and add holidays in any given city where an international match is being played.

 

[Prince EWS]

That's because of the policy formerly known as Workchoices - people don't get normal weekends any more to be with families, etc.
No doubt or new, glrious leader will change that - and add holidays in any given city where an international match is being played.

*doesn't bite*

 

[armchairumpire]

Middle of the week at the cricket - no problem. You can take:

ODI sickie - I ate a dodgy curry last night
Test match sickie - Have your wisdom teeth out just before a Test match.
Twenty20 sickie - I've got to leave early - my mother, dog, daughter, fridge repairman is coming, going and I need to be there.

There is also:

Parental leave, funeral leave, carers leave, long service leave and leave without pay.

Hope thats inspired you all!

 

[Jono]

They're not exactly lawyers, doctors and investment bankers at the weekday games, nor every day of a test match.

 

[Laurrz]

sickies ftw!

'he doesnt look very sick to me'

 

[Pratters]

Deck the halls with Santa's balls falalallalalalalalalla.

Ugh.

 

[Julian87]

I think you must have to be Australian to understand the real notion of sicky.

 

[pasag]

Indeed, classically epitomised by the then Prime Minister Bob Hawke who said after our famous Americas Cup victory that anyone who fired their workers for not turning up the next day was a bum.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not sure about the other parts of the World, but in England there will also be a fair proportion of Benefit scroungers in attendance.

 

[alternative]

Had fair few sickies of late and will be sick again for another couple of days.