There is no shortage of expat English community in Aus + NZ. If the matches were competitive and it really meant something perhaps it would attract the english crowds.
I already told you the Australian ashes is not as good as the English one or the BGT in term of Cricketting quality, You're merely commiting what is called a non-sequitor fallacy by repeatedly addressing a point never made
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this is the fallacy being commited here.
and Yes, there are English people in Australia, but cricket in England isn't as popular as in India and the Australian ashes is once again, not competitive.
Not true at all MCG Aus 2nd inngs at 91/6 and Bumrah on rampage India had a real good chance of winning that Test had Jaiswal not dropped a easy catch of Marnus. Even then starting the last session on D5 with just 3 wkts down the consensus was for a Draw. The fact that Aus did not declare overnight on D4 with the lead well in excess of 300 in itself tells you how unsure Aus was of forcing a win. As I said scorecards will not tell you all of this. Need to watch the game. Ditto with SCG where we would most certainly have pushed Aus to the edge if not for Bumrah's injury. So the matches were absolutely riveting and it was a case of each side fighting back. The ebbs and flows of Test Cricket were on full display
It can be called closed at 96-6, after that it was not close at all when a 250+ target was presented as that had literally not been chased at Melbourne since 1929 Ashes, and now further on adding that the SCG test stopped being competitive very early too, comparing this BGT to the 2023 Ashes is a direct insult to the 2023 Ashes which was one of the greatest serieses ever played in this sport, since 2021 BGT might be a competitor but this wasn't.
and once again, it's a full display of you just being ignorant toward the Ashes, here's a fact, BGT is relevant when India is strong and irrelevant when India isn't, it's no different than the Frank Worrell trophy, or the Wisden trophy, or the SA vs Aus series of 2010s, it's just Something that is relevant because the teams are the two best in the world, the moment we return to the status quo of Australia winning the Australian BGT and India the Indian one, it won't even be compareable to the Ashes.
Ashes has cultural relevance which made it relevant even when England were no match for Australia or vice versa.
Because the scale is different when you compare to large Indian and Aussie grounds to the English grounds which are tiny in comparison .... this is like comparing a full bath tub to a olympic sized swimming pool lol
The rose bowl is huge, and yeah the Australian stadiums are bigger than the English ones but the 2017 ashes was huge anyways
Massive crowds due to the expected success of the Ashes series and the limited-overs matches that follow combines with the continuing growth of the Twenty20 Big Bash League
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and that's for a non competitive series, lol.
Not based on crowds and following. Doesnt put bums on the chairs in Aus despite more than centuries worth of head start over BGT.
You wanna discuss lifetime? because 36-37 is still the biggest series ever despite being in a time when there were literally less people
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and again, 2021 ashes was just as big as the BGT that year despite being a slaughter.
Thats the thing ... Test Cricket is a far superior sport and yet it cannot compete with football which suggests that the English team has been pathetic for decades and that they play a very boring brand of cricket played by even more boring cricketers. Once they fix that ( Bazball has a decent chance of doing that ) then perhaps the Ashes rivalry can attract more people to the grounds in Aus and maybe incentivize ECB to invest in bigger stadiums.
Its laughable that England has these puny excuses that pass off as stadiums despite nearly 150 yrs of Test Cricket.
Ignoring the obvious xenophobic undertone of this comment, you wanna talk about pathetic? what's pathetic is asian cricketers feeling the need to develope entire fircle circles and racketts to fatten their pockets selling all the integrity of the sport in a moment, now that is what I'd call pathetic.
now, ignoring the fact you obviously don't know what Football is, I'm just gonna educate you a bit on this, Cricket in England is and always has been the aristocrat's game, as a game you need dozens of people, tons of equipment and so forth to even play Cricket properly with huge investment from local perspective while football is way more accessible to everyone and way more "quick fun", it's not difficult to see why football is #1 and Cricket #2 all over the world bar south east Asia.
respectfully disagree. The kinds of drama thats possible in Test Cricket is simply unmatched .... thats like comparing Junk food ( which is football ) to a proper 7 Course fancy dinner which is Test Cricket. No comparisons whatsoever.
lol, and guess what people eat more between Junk food and 5 star 7 course fancy dinners.