How popular is cricket where you are?

[Goughy]

Not suprisingly, cricket is irrelevant here (despite people making an effort).

 

[headhunter]

Brief mention at the end of the sports news is about the best it gets round here.

 

[Smudge]

Playing numbers were apparently up last season, but I remember two grades were lost in Dunedin during my 11 years of high school and club cricket there - people just don't have the time to play any more with the seven-day working week. Cricket is always in the majority of the nation's consciousness and is still our major summer sport, but it's still a distant second to rugby union.

 

[Langeveldt]

In SA it pretty much plays second fiddle to soccer and rugby union.. Still popular though, and I've noticed it's far more so amongst women and kids than in other countries..

 

[Jakester1288]

Over all I'd say it's pretty popular, but at school it's just all Rugby League. I love Rugby League, but Cricket just has the edge over it in my opinion, it is just purely a better sport. At school we play Cricket every day, even through the rain. At school, we are the "Cricket dudes/freaks".

 

[Beleg]

in Pakistan everybody plays cricket.

fewer people follow it for obvious reasons.

 

[GotSpin]

Very popular i think. Cricket and summer just go together like alcoholics and pubs.

 

[Craig]

No more to add to what the other Australian posters have added. Remember being at TAFE in '03 and our class was very much cricket dominant, played it wherever we could (ie hall ways, sports oval, class room).

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not suprisingly, cricket is irrelevant here (despite people making an effort).

Where?

 

[Goughy]

Where?

Bulgaria for the time being

 

[SJS]

I am not so sure about the popularity of cricket in my country but cricketers are very popular.

Oh yes boundaries, over-boundaries and some popular TV games like lets-play-selector, lets-abuse senior cricketers, lets abuse foreign coaches, and cricketers turned models are also loved by the public. If the cricketers are having an affair (real or imagined) with a popular film star then that is the ultimate.

Oh yes we do go to cricket matches but mainly to see ourselves on the big screen at the ground and to waive to Mummyjee and Daddyjee at home who are glued to the TV and on the phone to the entire clan about our forthcoming debut on the idiot box that day.

 

[Uppercut]

Ah, this is particular if your young in school although my mates are cool with it.

Nah my school was filled with middle-class toffs so cricket was fully acceptable.

It's more the locals at the bar i work in who treat it with such contempt. "Cricket? Who the **** watches cricket?!?" is a common retort. Or even "everyone knows it's boring".

 

[Uppercut]

Whereabouts in Ireland are you based?

It's obviously a minority sport over there, but I was in Galway for St Patrick's day last year when Ireland beat Pakistan and it got a fair bit of coverage. Whenever I or one of my drinking companions spoke every barman/taxi driver would ask "you been following the cricket then, lads?" on hearing our accents.

Belfast.

That was a great day for cricket in Ireland, but it was merely a flash in the pan rather than the catalyst for its growth. It was also horribly overshadowed by the death of Woolmer, that didn't help.

Galway's a lovely place, isn't it?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Belfast.

That was a great day for cricket in Ireland, but it was merely a flash in the pan rather than the catalyst for its growth. It was also horribly overshadowed by the death of Woolmer, that didn't help.

Galway's a lovely place, isn't it?

It is, yes. Was a great weekend for sport (had the last three 6 Nations games on too) as well as being St Paddy's day, so a hungover visit to the Spanish Arch was as cultural as it got tho. Fearsome craic.

 

[Xuhaib]

In SA it pretty much plays second fiddle to soccer and rugby union.. Still popular though, and I've noticed it's far more so amongst women and kids than in other countries..

I thought at was at par with the other two sports.