As you may have noticed the crowds at the latest ODI matches against the West Indies and Pakistan have diminished dramatically compared to previous seasons.
Is it the lack of competition shown by the touring sides which is causing the crowds to stay at home…
Or is it the fact that channel 9 shows the full game in the host city even though the match isn’t sold out! In Years gone by if the match wasn’t sold out then channel 9 would only show the 1st 50 overs so that if you wanted to watch the rest of the match then you would have to go out to the ground in order to see the conclusion of the game. This was the same with test matches and the domestic matches, they (channel 9) only used to show the test up until lunch or tea and that was it, meaning that people were more inclined to go out to the ground to watch the match!
Or is it that the 50 over version of the game is dying out and all that the public want to go and watch is the " Rock Star" version of cricket known as Twenty20.
I believe that the reason is a bit of a mix of the above, but i do strongly beleive that the first step in order to try and get more bums on seats at these cricket matches would have to start with Channel 9 going back to their old requirement of telecasting the cricket match in the host city (as mentioned above)
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interesting post allistair. i think it really would be a good idea for channel 9 to do as you said. i also agree with the fact Twenty20 is a "rock star" version of cricket. I'm keen to see more of your opinions on sports and their controversy.
ReplyDeleteYeha the public love the T20 version of the game and i do to but im also a massive fan of the 50 over version of the game and test matches
ReplyDeletewhy do they not play a full game everywhere? that doesn't make any sense to me!
ReplyDeletethey do play the full game on TV. but they didnt used to.
ReplyDeletei think they should go back to not showing the full game on TV because then if you want to know the result then people will go out to the game hence increasing the numbers at the grounds