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Low ticket sales for India’s tour of Australia

Well, today’s Day 1 attendance at Perth has been the absolute disaster that had started to sink in in recent days.

Remember, the WACA holds 24,500, and it is only worth using Perth Stadium if ticket sales exceed the WACA’s capacity.

Remember too the earlier link in which WACA CEO Christina Matthews mentioned that the initial projected Day 1 attendance had been 40,000?

Well, the Sydney Morning Herald has just reported that the final attendance is a pathetic 20,746.

So it’s now official: they chose the wrong stadium to host India, and even on the first ever day of Test cricket at the ground, the ground has been 65% empty.

Even the WACA would have had almost 20% of its seats unsold!

Perth Stadium is just too big for a team like India which attracts so few spectators.
 
Junaids said:
Well, today’s Day 1 attendance at Perth has been the absolute disaster that had started to sink in in recent days.
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Your proposition is that low ticket sales are due to the visiting team being Indian. You haven't offered any evidence as yet that the low attendance is not due to the public's disapproval of the sandpaper scandal. Not sure why you keep hammering away on this issue without considering the more obvious explanation.

When the #1 team comes visiting, there is an added interest. If ticket sales are poor, it is likely due to the shenanigans of the Aussie players.

If you claim is that India attracts fewer fans, you are better off presenting historical data rather than data from the present series which has a severe confounding factor.
 
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Junaids said:
You know as well as I do that for Cricket Australia, the drawback of the Gabba is that it “only” holds 42,000.

They seem to have believed the BCCI’s hype about being the second biggest drawcard after the Ashes. They thought they needed a bigger stadium for India, lol.

The thing is, the Indian crowd fiascos at the Adelaide Oval in 2014 and 2018 bookend much bigger attendances for more in-demand teams - not just England but even New Zealand and South Africa.

Frankly, you can discount nonsense like “better in-stadium wifi” for India from now on.

Unless they deliver crowds of at least the WACA’s 24,500 on Days 1 to 3 at Perth, India can forget about Perth Stadium in 2020.

If India can’t manage that these next three days they will have to be grateful if in 2020 they get offered the WACA and its temporary plastic toilets.
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For your convenience I am assuming that all that you said is right, 100%. As an extension all those countering you in this thread are liars and deserve the flames of hellfire.

Bolded bit 1: Their (CA, relevant Aus authorities etc) fault, their incompetence. If they can't make correct estimates about their own cricket community and logistics, how are we to blame? We will play where we are assigned, unlike some Western teams that throw a hissy fit when venues in India are not to their liking. As far as I know BCCI hasn't made any demand about venues. BCCI rightfully shot down the stupid D/N idea because it is a first step towards getting D/N in the subcontinent and nullifying our major strengths like spin, reverse swing, weather etc. We have already been cheated out to irrelevance by the western lords in field hockey so won't allow the same to happen in cricket, once bitten, twice shy LOL. Can't change all rules only for the benefit of Australia/England. Well you can try but expect to be put in your place by BCCI, days of Imperial Cricket Council are history thankfully.

Bolded bit 2: Who is 'they'? It is not our responsibility to fill crowds in Australia, if Aussie fans care let them do the needful. Our only concern is filling crowds in India, if tomorrow we get less crowds for a home test we won't point fingers at the visiting team and their countrymen, especially Aussies who anyhow only turn up in mere dozens to travel to India. This isn't charity, everyone for himself. Fortunately we get it and unfortunately you don't. If the new stadium at Perth draws less crowds, blame the uninterested local community and if the idea of shifting from WACA proves to be fruitless blame the person who made that decision (wager that person isn't an Indian). We don't clamor for stadiums, we don't care whether we play in Perth in 2020 or a deserted village in the outback. We will try to win no matter where we play, even if the host party and locals are hostile. We aren't like them soft Australian jellies that throw toys once inside Asia and make 100000 demands, only to get whooped every single time on the field.
 
Crowd Day 1, Perth Stadium: 20,746.
This is new record for the first day of a Test against India in Western Australia.

It's the biggest ever Friday crowd at this ground
 
Great crowds at Perth for a Test. 20786 on day 1 here, last year in an Ashes test that number was 22148. Remember that old WACA capacity is 20000 (after putting temporary stands they take that up to 24500). So no hotels, restaurants and airlines have gone bankrupt as the business has been as good as the last Ashes test.

On course for having more than 80000 people across this test. (their initial projection was 100000 aross the 5 days which they revised down to 70000). Threshold was 60,000, that will be crossed by day 3 here. Good deal for the new stadium.
 
Crowd at the old WACA ground in last Ashes Test 12 months ago - 22148, 22189, 20858, 18688, 8082 /. Total - 91000 across 5 days

ODI in 2017 at this ground vs Pakistan had a crowd of 15383
BBL final last yeard had a crowd of 21832

But for some reason we have to fill 24500 each day to get Perth stadium next. Looks like another case similar to Gabba 'refusing' to host us LOL
 
cricketindiafan said:
Crowd at the old WACA ground in last Ashes Test 12 months ago - 22148, 22189, 20858, 18688, 8082 /. Total - 91000 across 5 days

ODI in 2017 at this ground vs Pakistan had a crowd of 15383
BBL final last yeard had a crowd of 21832

But for some reason we have to fill 24500 each day to get Perth stadium next. Looks like another case similar to Gabba 'refusing' to host us LOL
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The WACA held 24,500 spectators.

The only point of playing at Perth Stadium is if that can be exceeded.

So when you only attract 20,786 at the new stadium, then obviously the wrong ground has been used.

If you have a London Heathrow to Boston flight which is going to sell 210 seats, much better to fly it using a 245 seat Boeing 787-8 rather than a 600 seat Airbus A380.

Those numbers correspond precisely with 21,000 spectators who could have been accommodated in either the 24,500 seat WACA or 60,000 seat Perth Stadium.

When India tour, Cricket Australia gets the same TV revenue from Aussie and Indian TV regardless of which stadia are used.

But given India’s pathetic attendances so far, it looks like they should consider hosting them at much, much smaller grounds next time.
 
Junaids said:
The WACA held 24,500 spectators.

The only point of playing at Perth Stadium is if that can be exceeded.

So when you only attract 20,786 at the new stadium, then obviously the wrong ground has been used.

If you have a London Heathrow to Boston flight which is going to sell 210 seats, much better to fly it using a 245 seat Boeing 787-8 rather than a 600 seat Airbus A380.

Those numbers correspond precisely with 21,000 spectators who could have been accommodated in either the 24,500 seat WACA or 60,000 seat Perth Stadium.

When India tour, Cricket Australia gets the same TV revenue from Aussie and Indian TV regardless of which stadia are used.

But given India’s pathetic attendances so far, it looks like they should consider hosting them at much, much smaller grounds next time.
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Australia should invite Pakistan for their spectacular performance in Australia over the last 2 decades. I agree.
 
Rahul1 said:
Australia should invite Pakistan for their spectacular performance in Australia over the last 2 decades. I agree.
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Tickets will sell even less if Pakistan were to be invited. CA knows that only too well. :srini
 
Junaids said:
The WACA held 24,500 spectators.

The only point of playing at Perth Stadium is if that can be exceeded.

So when you only attract 20,786 at the new stadium, then obviously the wrong ground has been used.
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Thats a lie. Capacity is 20000, expandable to max 24500 by erecting temporary stands. There is a reason why even a sold out Ashes test last year had a peak crowd of 22189.

If you have a London Heathrow to Boston flight which is going to sell 210 seats, much better to fly it using a 245 seat Boeing 787-8 rather than a 600 seat Airbus A380. Those numbers correspond precisely with 21,000 spectators who could have been accommodated in either the 24,500 seat WACA or 60,000 seat Perth Stadium.
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If the option is between a worn out old plane and a modern plane, purely upto the business entity to take that business decision especially when you know the passengers on the 600 seater are also going to bring in millions of other benefits to the business. Common business sense, no sentiments.

When India tour, Cricket Australia gets the same TV revenue from Aussie and Indian TV regardless of which stadia are used.

But given India’s pathetic attendances so far, it looks like they should consider hosting them at much, much smaller grounds next time.
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Ask the organisers who decided that a test that can have 60000+ spectatros over the test, will be played at the new stadium. This will end up with more than 80000, which will be a record for the new stadium. Today's attendance was already a record for a non-Ashes test in Western Australia. You can keep shouting bankruptcy, disaster etc.

Oh and next time as well, we will play at the bigger stadiums as by the end of the tour, we would have been watched by 700000 people across the formats.
 
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[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] Cricket Australia should burn down the new stadium since a full strength Australia and their biggest rivals could not draw anything more than 22 k at the WACA on any given day :( . Is that Indias fault too? The real issue is with the Australian cricket board being completely out of touch with what people want. Test cricket is in decline in Australia regardless of who plays and they would do very well not to build bigger stadiums for tests and not waste the money and resources on such fruitless pursuits.
 
The stadium is not purely a cricket stadium. It is a multi purpose stadium. That is why they have used drop in pitch in this match. It will hold other sports as well.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] Cricket Australia should burn down the new stadium since a full strength Australia and their biggest rivals could not draw anything more than 22 k at the WACA on any given day :( . Is that Indias fault too? The real issue is with the Australian cricket board being completely out of touch with what people want. Test cricket is in decline in Australia regardless of who plays and they would do very well not to build bigger stadiums for tests and not waste the money and resources on such fruitless pursuits.
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For the WACA 22k is close to max capacity depending on the number of temporary stands, the new stadium has ~60k seats and got 20k spectators. [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] says that they should've played at the WACA as it could accommodate 20-24k and it costs less but CA thought the India Test would have more spectators than the max capacity of the WACA. Are ypu missing something? :13:
 
Adijazz1706 said:
For the WACA 22k is close to max capacity depending on the number of temporary stands, the new stadium has ~60k seats and got 20k spectators. [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] says that they should've played at the WACA as it could accommodate 20-24k and it costs less but CA thought the India Test would have more spectators than the max capacity of the WACA. Are ypu missing something? :13:
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Ashes had 22k people. So India tour was not going to exceed it. Point is that any test that is expected to have more than 60K spectators is to be played at the Optus stadium.
 
Adijazz1706 said:
For the WACA 22k is close to max capacity depending on the number of temporary stands, the new stadium has ~60k seats and got 20k spectators. [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] says that they should've played at the WACA as it could accommodate 20-24k and it costs less but CA thought the India Test would have more spectators than the max capacity of the WACA. Are ypu missing something? :13:
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India is never going to attract more crowd than Ashes. Ground didn't get 24K even in Ashes for even one day. It's absurd to think that India will surpass Ashes in attracting crowd.
 
Buffet said:
India is never going to attract more crowd than Ashes. Ground didn't get 24K even in Ashes for even one day. It's absurd to think that India will surpass Ashes in attracting crowd.
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We'll have to compare future numbers, this is the first match here
 
Adijazz1706 said:
We'll have to compare future numbers, this is the first match here
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Then low or high attendance discussion should happen after 10 tests are played. It defies all logic to talk about low attendance if we are counting it as first match. Lower or higher attendance should be seen in historical context when we have data points to compare.
 
Unbelievable that this thread has gone on for 6 pages. If anything, we are to be blamed for this. Even non Indian posters have laughed out loud over some of the posts made by the OP, including Australian posters.

Who is to be blamed? Us, and us alone.
 
After the Shoaib Malik support thread, this is my favorite one.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] Cricket Australia should burn down the new stadium since a full strength Australia and their biggest rivals could not draw anything more than 22 k at the WACA on any given day :( . Is that Indias fault too? The real issue is with the Australian cricket board being completely out of touch with what people want. Test cricket is in decline in Australia regardless of who plays and they would do very well not to build bigger stadiums for tests and not waste the money and resources on such fruitless pursuits.
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This stadium was not built for cricket. crowds of between 40-60000 fill this stadium every weekend over the winter when football is played. Its a aussie rules football stadium where they play cricket in the off season.

Same as Adelaide oval, it sells out nearly every weekend over winter with packed crowds for football for 24 weeks of the year.

Whatever the crowds at test matches makes little difference to these stadiums.
 
lol Indians on this thread that keep arguing with the OP, you lot just don't get it (LET IT GO, IT IS NOT AFFECTING YOUR LIFE, IT IS A NON ISSUE).... I have a lot more respect for Junaids now, just for getting Indians on this thread to call him names etc and arguing back over nothing making themselves look silly.....
 
Gilly said:
This stadium was not built for cricket. crowds of between 40-60000 fill this stadium every weekend over the winter when football is played. Its a aussie rules football stadium where they play cricket in the off season.

Same as Adelaide oval, it sells out nearly every weekend over winter with packed crowds for football for 24 weeks of the year.

Whatever the crowds at test matches makes little difference to these stadiums.
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The point stands, the state cricket boards do not gain as much as they've hoped for if gate receipts and other spectator expenses such as food and drink dwindle due to the low attendance
 
Adijazz1706 said:
The point stands, the state cricket boards do not gain as much as they've hoped for if gate receipts and other spectator expenses such as food and drink dwindle due to the low attendance
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It does not matter, if cricket Australia makes their money, Australian cricket is stronger with a better future. India will keep touring because it makes cricket Australia millions of dollars, compared to a Pakistani team that will net next to nothing other than a few more audience on seats and a few more burgers & chips being sold compared to an Indian tour .....
 
Adijazz1706 said:
The point stands, the state cricket boards do not gain as much as they've hoped for if gate receipts and other spectator expenses such as food and drink dwindle due to the low attendance
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The point is pointless, Big Bash is where the money is for crowds, test matches are for TV revenue.

India have never been a big crowd puller in Australia.
 
I don't think the Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis posters know just how big the AFL is in Australia like has been mentioned on this thread Australia has many sports not just one sports like Pakistan, India etc.

The AFL Grand Final in September of this year at the MCG was sold out 105,000 people and most of the grounds are packed from 24 weeks during the AFL season, so cricket is not the most popular sport in Australia.
 
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Gilly said:
The point is pointless, Big Bash is where the money is for crowds, test matches are for TV revenue.

India have never been a big crowd puller in Australia.
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That’s a complete reversal of the reality.

Big Bash gets big crowds on massively discounted $50 Family tickets, whereas the Tests as Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney deliver between them around 450,000 to 500,000 ticket sales at an average of $80 each (as opposed to 2 adults and 2 kids delivering $50 for a BBL game).

Big Bash is subsidised as a product by Test TV rights money, but $50 BBL Family Tickets are subsidised by $100 Test tickets.
 
Mamba Red said:
I don't think the Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis posters know just how big the AFL is in Australia like has been mentioned on this thread Australia has many sports not just one sports like Pakistan, India etc.

The AFL Grand Final in September of this year at the MCG was sold out 105,000 people and most of the grounds are packed from 24 weeks during the AFL season, so cricket is not the most popular sport in Australia.
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Yes, but AFL is nothing in Sydney or Brisbane where Rugby League rule!

The thing is, the big stadia in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth do well from AFL. They don’t need to open two-thirds empty for an India Test too soon after their last one.

In Perth, the current debacle will ensure that only England get to play Tests at Perth Stadium. At least Perth has a smaller option with the WACA, but for Adelaide and Brisbane the two choices are Day/Night Tests or no Test in non-Ashes years.
 
Love this thread.

One Junaids is enough for all our parosi friends here! Haha remarkable.

I do kinda feel that with the kind of hype that was in the media, we would've seen better crowds.
 
[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] or anyone, what's the attendance figure for day 2?
 
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[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] or anyone, what's the attendance figure for day 2?
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I’ve actually felt too sorry for our Indian friends to have the heart to publish it.

Day 2 was a Saturday, so no work, no school.

And whereas Day 1 - a working day, and the last day of school this year - attracted 20,786 spectators, Day 2 got in a truly pathetic 19,042 spectators.

It’s impossible to exaggerate just how pathetic the attendances for these India Tests have been.

Even when Day 2 is on a Saturday, they are only selling 19,000 tickets in a 60,000 seat ground.

While the 24,500 capacity ground which would have been perfect for India is lying empty.

The WA government was basically tricked into building an AFL stadium for the AFL on the false basis that teams like India as well as England would sell it out for 4 days.

And it’s turning out to be complete fiction: after 7 days of this Test series India has delivered 5 lower attendances than Pakistan did in the first 7 days of its Australian tour two years ago.

Cricket Australia and the BCCI seem to be trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by wheeling it out to the Aussie (and English) public far more often than it is actually welcome.
 
It's a shame because Kohli's playing a great innings. When he got to 100, only shot you saw on TV was his teammates clapping. There were empty chairs all around.
 
I’m not sure what Junaids motive is and whether he is trolling but in all seriousness it’s a shame and it’s worrying how bad attendance is for such an enthralling Test match
 
Slog said:
I’m not sure what Junaids motive is and whether he is trolling but in all seriousness it’s a shame and it’s worrying how bad attendance is for such an enthralling Test match
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You see practically empty stadiums in test cricket in India, test cricket is not about crowd attendance, it is all based on TV revenue...
 
Romali_rotti said:
You see practically empty stadiums in test cricket in India, test cricket is not about crowd attendance, it is all based on TV revenue...
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i dont care about tv revenue. More TV screens doesnt result in a great match atmosphere

and i know test attendance all over the world is pretty poor generally

ive always found tests in England and Australia (followed by SA) the most exciting and ones I look forward to. And the reason for that is that venues in these countries have good attendances for Test cricket. So its sad to see Aussie attendance is dwindling whether its due to the poor Aussie team or general malaise towards Test cricket.
 
Slog said:
i dont care about tv revenue. More TV screens doesnt result in a great match atmosphere

and i know test attendance all over the world is pretty poor generally

ive always found tests in England and Australia (followed by SA) the most exciting and ones I look forward to. And the reason for that is that venues in these countries have good attendances for Test cricket. So its sad to see Aussie attendance is dwindling whether its due to the poor Aussie team or general malaise towards Test cricket.
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Not SA. Kallis played his last inning in front of empty home stands. It was sad to see.
 
Slog said:
i dont care about tv revenue. More TV screens doesnt result in a great match atmosphere



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It's a combination of the issue with Smith & Warner along with Australia's loss in the first test, however yes I agree its good to have great atmosphere however no damage done if TV revenue keeps raking the cash both BCCIs & Cricket Australia's mission accomplished.... What's alarming to me was the near empty crowds in Indian stadiums for test matches recently, that is quite concerning imo...
 
Romali_rotti said:
It's a combination of the issue with Smith & Warner along with Australia's loss in the first test, however yes I agree its good to have great atmosphere however no damage done if TV revenue keeps raking the cash both BCCIs & Cricket Australia's mission accomplished.... What's alarming to me was the near empty crowds in Indian stadiums for test matches recently, that is quite concerning imo...
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tbh India has had poor crowds for Test matches for a while

Eng and Aus seemed to be only ones who would regularly fill up majority seats
 
Buffet said:
Not SA. Kallis played his last inning in front of empty home stands. It was sad to see.
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yea thats why I put them on third

But its still better than other countries. The crowds for the Aus tour were decent
 
Romali_rotti said:
It's a combination of the issue with Smith & Warner along with Australia's loss in the first test, however yes I agree its good to have great atmosphere however no damage done if TV revenue keeps raking the cash both BCCIs & Cricket Australia's mission accomplished.... What's alarming to me was the near empty crowds in Indian stadiums for test matches recently, that is quite concerning imo...
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Much of it is down to dumb stadium selection, you need to keep the tests in metros except Delhi you will get decent crowds, this stupid small town test fixtures are what pull the nos down.
 
So only 59,545 spectators have turned up for this test over the first 3 days. That implies a third day crowd of 19,757. Egg well and truly on the face of the West Australian Cricket Association.
 
Slog said:
yea thats why I put them on third

But its still better than other countries. The crowds for the Aus tour were decent
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The crowd for the recent Australian tour were anything but decent. There was hardly anyone watching some of the matches.
 
Last Monetarist said:
So only 59,545 spectators have turned up for this test over the first 3 days. That implies a third day crowd of 19,757. Egg well and truly on the face of the West Australian Cricket Association.
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Yep, just 19,757 on Day 3.

So, to recap:

At the time Perth Stadium was chosen, the WA Cricket Association had predicted the following attendances:

Day 1: 40,000 (ended up with 20,746)
Day 2: 35,000 (ended up with 19,042, on a weekend)
Day 3: 35,000 (ended up with 19,757, on a weekend).

So they could have played at the WACA and still had lots of empty seats.
 
Junaids said:
Yep, just 19,757 on Day 3.

So, to recap:

At the time Perth Stadium was chosen, the WA Cricket Association had predicted the following attendances:

Day 1: 40,000 (ended up with 20,746)
Day 2: 35,000 (ended up with 19,042, on a weekend)
Day 3: 35,000 (ended up with 19,757, on a weekend).

So they could have played at the WACA and still had lots of empty seats.
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Its a loss for local Australian cricket fans who misses out an ATG knock by the greatest batsman on planet earth at present. Also the overall quality of both the matches in this series has been top notch and better than anything last Ashes has to offer where Eng meekly surrendered. Though I know the reason for less crowd may be due to sand paper gate but even if we take your point that India is less appealing than Eng, SA or Pak in Australia, I wish them well. An ignoant soul would pay to see likes of Joe Root or Faf Duplesis or Imam Ul Haq over King Kohli.

So this less crowd is a loss for Australian fans...but for you to somehow imply Indians should be ashamed of it is hilarious.
 
Canford Cliffs said:
Its a loss for local Australian cricket fans who misses out an ATG knock by the greatest batsman on planet earth at present. Also the overall quality of both the matches in this series has been top notch and better than anything last Ashes has to offer where Eng meekly surrendered. Though I know the reason for less crowd may be due to sand paper gate but even if we take your point that India is less appealing than Eng, SA or Pak in Australia, I wish them well. An ignoant soul would pay to see likes of Joe Root or Faf Duplesis or Imam Ul Haq over King Kohli.

So this less crowd is a loss for Australian fans...but for you to somehow imply Indians should be ashamed of it is hilarious.
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You misunderstand.

Pakistan has played at Brisbane once in 19 years.

India has played at Adelaide three times in 7 years.

India’s problem overseas is over-exposure. They are touring more often than is sustainable for any host public.
 
Target of 60000, which was the threshold, already reached on day 3. Will end at 80000 by day 5. Great considering the WACA ground had 90000 for the last year's Ashes test.

CA chief has admitted the Aussie public not in it yet due to mismanagement of the Sandpaper scandal by previous management. This series will help repair the damage done and get the fans gradually back to stadiums.
 
Junaids said:
You misunderstand.

Pakistan has played at Brisbane once in 19 years.

India has played at Adelaide three times in 7 years.

India’s problem overseas is over-exposure. They are touring more often than is sustainable for any host public.
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Don't want to get into an arguement with you but the reason Pakistan played less in Australia because they are not a marketable team downunder. They never manage to even draw a test match there since 1996. Even likes of Ian Chappel had criticized poor performance of Pak year after year in Aust. So if you are in a notion that just bcoz Pak didnt play a test match in Brisbane for 19 years and anyone cares much about it in Australia is hilarious. Maybe migrants like yourself would queue up but local Aussies wont lose its sleep over it.

Its like BD never played a series in India because they are not good enough (at least historically). But that dont mean people here will queue up when ans if BD tours India. On the other hand Aust tours us in every alternate year. But still crowd would pay to see a series with Aust more than BD.
 
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Perth stadium looks like Dubai today. Never seen anything like in 24 years of watching test cricket in Australia.
 
Today's attendance 10,877.

Takes the total attendance over 4 days to 70K, will likely end at around 75-80000 compared to the 90000 at WACA ground last Ashes test.

Total Test attendance will be ~190000 for 2 tests with MCG and SCG to go. Should take the total number to 375000-400000 for the 4 Tests alone.
 
cricketindiafan said:
Today's attendance 10,877.

Takes the total attendance over 4 days to 70K, will likely end at around 75-80000 compared to the 90000 at WACA ground last Ashes test.

Total Test attendance will be ~190000 for 2 tests with MCG and SCG to go. Should take the total number to 375000-400000 for the 4 Tests alone.
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I’m not going to try to score points any more, I’m just going to be magnanimous in victory.

It’s very sad.

A superb Test that has been played in a stadium much bigger than the actual demand.
 
Aman said:
The attendance for the boxing day Test will be interesting.
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No, the MCG Test and Sydney Test are during the holidays, so they are a sure thing.

Plus there are tens of thousands of Indians in Melbourne.

And the series will be alive again at 1-1.

Adelaide and Perth were the two key Tests in terms of attendance, and they have both been catastrophic.
 
Junaids said:
No, the MCG Test and Sydney Test are during the holidays, so they are a sure thing.

Plus there are tens of thousands of Indians in Melbourne.

And the series will be alive again at 1-1.

Adelaide and Perth were the two key Tests in terms of attendance, and they have both been catastrophic.
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Will they ever play test cricket again?.
 
Junaids said:
I’m not going to try to score points any more, I’m just going to be magnanimous in victory.

It’s very sad.

A superb Test that has been played in a stadium much bigger than the actual demand.
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LOL The classic judge, jury and executioner trope. Be happy.
 
Junaids said:
No, the MCG Test and Sydney Test are during the holidays, so they are a sure thing.

Plus there are tens of thousands of Indians in Melbourne.

And the series will be alive again at 1-1.

Adelaide and Perth were the two key Tests in terms of attendance, and they have both been catastrophic.
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Thanks for your detailed, data-driven responses instead of just posting from emotion as many do.
 
Junaids said:
No, the MCG Test and Sydney Test are during the holidays, so they are a sure thing.

Plus there are tens of thousands of Indians in Melbourne.

And the series will be alive again at 1-1.

Adelaide and Perth were the two key Tests in terms of attendance, and they have both been catastrophic.
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Hanuma Vihary will win it for us today...wait and watch :srini
 
octavian said:
Perth stadium looks like Dubai today. Never seen anything like in 24 years of watching test cricket in Australia.
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It matters more to Indians who were desperate to be part of a Big Three than it ever mattered to Australians.
 
Today’s attendance 10,672. Test total at 80000

Total for 2 tests 193000. On course for 450000 for the 4 tests.

Add the T20 attendance of 132000, total is 327000. Across the tour, should touch 725000. Not bad for a team of nobodies who no Aussie wants to watch.
 
Boxing day test 5 days away.

As [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] keeps telling, tickets get sold 6 months in advance in Australia.

Junaid, any news about the expected crowd for the test? Can't find anything in the news reports. Any insider info? What are the hotels, restaurants and airlines saying? Does CA feel they'll have to ask BCCI to play tests at Darwin and now MCG?
 
Day 1 crowd v Pak MCG , 2004: 61552
Day 1 crowd v Pak MCG , 2009: 59222

Not sure about total number of 2016 against Pakistan, but in 2nd session it was 61,648.
 
Lot of Indians in the stadium. Could it be the magnetic personality of the batting colossus Rohit Sharma? His inclusion in the side has really drawn in the crowds :kp
 
Now [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] will come and say how the attendance at MCG doesnot matter.
 
Only 71000 in today to watch Kohli and his nobodies. Such a poor attendance.

Airlines, hotels and restaurants in Melbourne must have gone bankrupt. Waiting for CA to say we will play India only at Cannberra, Hobart and Darwin now.
 
cricketindiafan said:
Only 71000 in today to watch Kohli and his nobodies. Such a poor attendance.

Airlines, hotels and restaurants in Melbourne must have gone bankrupt. Waiting for CA to say we will play India only at Cannberra, Hobart and Darwin now.
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Most of them have been sponsored the the BCCI to save themselves from the embarrassment :vk2
 
Final figure for the day 73,516.

More people watching these nobodies today than when big names played in 2000s in Ind-Aus tests.
 
Lol you guys aren’t really a good job lolz

Boxing Day Test is an Australian tradition
 
First 15 overs tomorrow will be very important with this new ball.
 
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