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***Official*** Trans-Tasman Twenty20 Tri-Series

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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Bahnz said:
Yep, the crowd didn't look much bigger than it was for the last T20 at the stadium, which is obviously disappointing given that it's the first match of a tour by an England side. Yet more evidence that the NZC's strategy of spamming the public with an absolute truckload of limited overs games has hit serious diminishing returns.
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That's exactly right. Cash cows only have so much milk, but David White will keep pulling the teet.

You'd conceivably add 5-10k to the crowd if it wasn't a school night though right? Eden Park should be pretty heaving this Friday, it's only their 2nd game of the summer (?) and the Pakistan T20 was very well attended.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Moss said:
I recall asking around a year ago in the NZ Domestic Thread who the best gloveman among new crop of keepers (Blundell, Phillips, Seifert, Cleaver) was and the reply I got was "Seifert by far". (Of course, the reply was from Howsie, but no one seemed to challenge the assertion.)
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No I've never been too sure Seifert adheres to that old wicket-keeping 101 chestnut regarding the eyes vigilantly tracking the ball without influence or distraction from the shot being played.

 
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Looks like being a bloody good crowd at Eden Park - I was stupidly late sorting our tickets, and today I can't get anything in the north or south stands.

Rickety old west stand it is.
 
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The Hutt Rec

The Hutt Rec

International Vice-Captain
Wellington crowd was 12,300 ... so better than the Pakistan game there that got 8000, at least.

I don’t think the $45 tickets are helping. I’m sure they have been more like $35 in previous seasons?
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
The Hutt Rec said:
Wellington crowd was 12,300 ... so better than the Pakistan game there that got 8000, at least.

I don’t think the $45 tickets are helping. I’m sure they have been more like $35 in previous seasons?
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$45 for a T20? Yeah that's too much. I'm paying, and happily, 45 for the Mount ODI. That's 8 hours of entertainment against 3.5. They'll say bums on seats at Eden Park justifies it but if Wellington was 45 that's silly. Get people to the ground.
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

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SteveNZ said:
$45 for a T20? Yeah that's too much. I'm paying, and happily, 45 for the Mount ODI. That's 8 hours of entertainment against 3.5. They'll say bums on seats at Eden Park justifies it but if Wellington was 45 that's silly. Get people to the ground.
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$20 is a good price for a T20. Or at least throw in a token for a free drink to try and hook people into buying the overpriced watered down ****.
 
thierry henry

thierry henry

International Coach
thierry henry said:
I don't even like T20 cricket at all, but I suspect that 3 (hopefully 4) straight NZ v England/Australia T20s are gonna do pretty well in terms of public interest in NZ.

The non-CW-hipster market (aka the Veitchy on Sport market) will see this as the start of our "real" summer of cricket and a chance to test ourselves against top opposition after the Windies and Pakistan. The mid-season lull is probably only going to heighten anticipation and the rugby season hasn't warmed up yet.
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Cricket: Eden Park set for a record post-World Cup crowd - NZ Herald

Biggest crowd since CWC 2015
 
straw man

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
thierry henry said:
Cricket: Eden Park set for a record post-World Cup crowd - NZ Herald

Biggest crowd since CWC 2015
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As much as it irks that this summer pushes vast quantities of limited overs cricket over test cricket, you can never argue with a huge crowd.

Think it helps interest levels that it's part of a tri-series with a final as well, rather than a bilateral series. The old Australian ODI tri-series are well-remembered in NZ (the good ones like NZ/Aus/SA especially, the many boring matches in other series forgotten) and this is a reminder of those.
 
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