cricket a dying sport in non south asian countries?

[Gooch20]

I personally think cricket is dying outside of south asia, even in countries like Australia or England. I blame this on India, because India today is leader of Cricket, they have the money and power and they to much influence on world cricket. In countries like West Indies, hardly any new youngesters are taking cricket in schools/colleges, i dont see any good future of west indies in cricket

I think cricket needs to become less south asian and become global some how., even ICC is basically all run by indians or other south asians, basically what i have noticed is that everybody (non south asian) is losing interest in cricket, this is a major worry

 

[Gooch20]

btw, i am from pakistan, so south asians dont take offense, but i am speaking the truth. we need to get involved in other sports like Football, atleast pakistan is a world champion in hockey and squash. I would love to see pakistan in a football worldcup. I think we should focus less on cricket and more on football, south asians go way overboard with the love of cricket, often its embarrasing infront of other people

 

[GotSpin]

What the **** are you on about

 

[Ausage]

What the **** are you on about

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter as well.

 

[Noble One]

I had to re-read the above, three times. It made less sense with each reading.

I think the OP is proposing that less interest in Asian countries will result in greater interest in all other nations? Lacks a certain logic.

 

[cnerd123]

I think he's trying to say South Asians are making cricket look bad.

 

[BoyBrumby]

The ICC might just have mortally wounded the sport in non-test nations, tbh.

 

[Jono]

How the hell is India responsible for the **** organisation of cricket in the West Indies?

 

[Spark]

Let alone the base assumption that cricket is dying in Australia and England...

 

[silentstriker]

I was in Vegas for the past couple weeks, and (I play tournaments) virtually every table had at least one guy from the UK. And while virtually all of them were into football, I asked every one and only one (out of around ~20) people I asked knew about the cricket. And he was only semi-into cricket (only knew a couple players in the England squad).

I am sure that's not a representative sample but any UK based posters want to comment on that? I was surprised a little bit.

 

[Mike5181]

I was in Vegas for the past couple weeks, and (I play tournaments) virtually every table had at least one guy from the UK. And while virtually all of them were into football, I asked every one and only one (out of around ~20) people I asked knew about the cricket. And he was only semi-into cricket (only knew a couple players in the England squad).

I am sure that's not a representative sample but any UK based posters want to comment on that? I was surprised a little bit.

That's the same case in New Zealand no doubt.

 

[GIMH]

I was in Vegas for the past couple weeks, and (I play tournaments) virtually every table had at least one guy from the UK. And while virtually all of them were into football, I asked every one and only one (out of around ~20) people I asked knew about the cricket. And he was only semi-into cricket (only knew a couple players in the England squad).

I am sure that's not a representative sample but any UK based posters want to comment on that? I was surprised a little bit.

Think it depends on which part of the country you are in. In the North West (the best bit) I'd say about 60-70 per cent of adult males have at least some interest in the sport. Probably different elsewhere, dunno, but it's pretty much the 2nd or 3rd most popular sport in viewing terms, after Football and maybe Union. I think.

 

[silentstriker]

Interesting. I was surprised only because I know England makes the most money after India, and that their tickets are hugely expensive, so I was expecting more demand - but it's very possible that I just happened to meet people from the wrong geographic regions.

 

[keeper]

I was in Vegas for the past couple weeks, and (I play tournaments) virtually every table had at least one guy from the UK. And while virtually all of them were into football, I asked every one and only one (out of around ~20) people I asked knew about the cricket. And he was only semi-into cricket (only knew a couple players in the England squad).

I am sure that's not a representative sample but any UK based posters want to comment on that? I was surprised a little bit.

Think that says more about football than cricket. The former has moved away from being a sport to being a celebrity led reality TV phenomena. It's a complete fashion fad now, no-one in the public eye will deny 'supporting' a team.

Cricket is fine in England I think.Badly run, not making the most of it's abilities - but popular and probably growing.

 

[fredfertang]

English cricket failed miserably to take advantage of and develop the huge enthusiasm for the game amongst "non cricketers" that took hold during 2005, and there's no doubt in my mind that most of those people lost interest in the game as quickly as they gained it - obviously 05 couldn't be replicated in 06 but even in 09 it wasn't anything like the same - the loss of free to air TV coverage is clearly the main factor but there are doubtless others

 

[four_or_six]

I was in Vegas for the past couple weeks, and (I play tournaments) virtually every table had at least one guy from the UK. And while virtually all of them were into football, I asked every one and only one (out of around ~20) people I asked knew about the cricket. And he was only semi-into cricket (only knew a couple players in the England squad).

I am sure that's not a representative sample but any UK based posters want to comment on that? I was surprised a little bit.

I don't think it's that surprising, I don't know that many people who are really into cricket, outside my family and their cricketing friends. My boyfriend when I met him didn't know anything about it and none of his friends did either. He never played it at school, despite playing football, rugby and hockey.

I must qualify this with being a southerner (although my parents and grandparents are all Yorkshire and Lancashire). When my parents lived in the NE for a while, I could see that it seemed much more popular up there and in Yorkshire.

 

[Smudge]

There's certainly a hell of a lot less social Saturday cricket being played in NZ. When I first started playing adult grades in Dunedin in 1992 (in our school's 3rd XI in 3rd form), there were six grades for senior cricket, plus two president grades. There are now three senior grades (so I hear) and one president's grade, and third grade really is at a poor level.

 

[archie mac]

English cricket failed miserably to take advantage of and develop the huge enthusiasm for the game amongst "non cricketers" that took hold during 2005, and there's no doubt in my mind that most of those people lost interest in the game as quickly as they gained it - obviously 05 couldn't be replicated in 06 but even in 09 it wasn't anything like the same - the loss of free to air TV coverage is clearly the main factor but there are doubtless others

Good point re the tv rights, can't believe they are not on free to air.

Friends I have who are English say things like it is only for the rich in England

There is no real problem in Aust. still very popular and almost everyone born in Australia follows it to some extent

 

[Jono]

Many English posters on this board were angry when FTA no longer had the cricket, and then were angry when they were going to get it back, referencing the loss of money for English cricket if Sky no longer had it.

So really, what is the best result? People on CW don't seem to know...

 

[four_or_six]

Many English posters on this board were angry when FTA no longer had the cricket, and then were angry when they were going to get it back, referencing the loss of money for English cricket if Sky no longer had it.

So really, what is the best result? People on CW don't seem to know...

The problem was that just the Ashes was going to be free-to-air iirc, which meant only minimal live cricket and at the same time Sky paying masses less because they had lost their most popular series.