If Aussies sincerely feel the need that English test crowds are now under par, and another thing you can throw at ''poms'' or whatever the hell you call us, then crikey, test cricket is truly buggered. It is basically Australian and English crowds which are the only reliable factors here! We, collectively, are the only people who watch the stuff now, and now we learn the English could do a bit better on that score?
Are you saying boo or
14000 in on day 5 so not quite........but not far off some of them i suppose.
If you are having an argument that the English do not watch test cricket in sufficient number, enough of an argument to use in a regular pom-baiting session, then we should just cancel this sport right now as we are about the only country who does watch the bloody thing, the other being your lot!!
No he's saying boolieve dat.
I dont think Spark was saying that at all.
But we seem to sell more for days 4 and 5 so it balances itself out. The Australians I believe are ''at the beach'' on those days which does not happen in our ''dreary grey island'' full of ''pig'' people.
That's because of all the people who missed out on getting in early. In Melbourne there was no one who wanted to go to day 1-4 who couldn't get a ticket. Though 80 odd thousand attended day 1 I could have strolled up at any time and got myself a seat. We can afford to go the beach on the Saturday of a dull and dreary test because we were able to get in earlier. You can't blame us for going to the beach - every Englishman and his dog would go to the beach too if they had Australian beaches (yes - even 'Melbourne' beaches)
No, the total for the MCG test was 260,000 divide that by five days and its 52,000 per day. How many England test matches have 260,000 spectators total for a match?.
And when Australia play the Windies and you are all watching that Twenty20 garbage down the road while the test team are playing to one man and his dog? This happened a few years ago, that series where Voges and Warner made two billion runs on roads, and caused a huge national debate on the future of test cricket. Besides, even if you're correct that ''England's interest in the game is sub par'', that should be as equally concerning to an Australian (test cricket fan) as it is to an Englishmen, and not merely something one should use as part of their national barracking. I repeat: if England's viewership is ''low'' (to an Australian) what does that say about the other test playing nations who produce significantly lower (than England's) crowds?
No I just said you are wrong and it does not balance out. More people attend matches when the grounds are bigger than matches that are played at smaller grounds. I used the match totals from the MCG and you would need a ground with a capacity of 52,000 full every day for five days to equal that.
Borthwick hardly even bowled didn't he? IIRC he came on mostly at unimportant times of the game, got hit around a bit but also took some meaningless wickets when Aussies were slogging
