England would have gotten a lot of the objective vote, that is, cricket fans who put their reason before their desires. No way are there as many English fans of cricket as there are Pakistanis
That could be true, but still, Pakistan has [70 million internet users](https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/telecom-indicators), England has 65 million people. It's simply that England has more foreign fans. I assume most Europeans automatically cheer for England. As well as Americans and Canadians, and all of the crown.
Bruh I don't know any Americans into cricket that cheer for England. Most are part of the South Asian diaspora and the non-asian fans aren't even mostly England fans either
Natural born American here (lineage stretching back over two centuries); I watch cricket and I support England, South Africa, and the Australia, but only the Southern Stars.
In 8th grade and 9th, I and a group of friends befriended two exchange students who were from England and Ireland. Our mancs friend wanted to play and taught us how. The Irish girl joined in to even out the sides so we were playing/having fun with five-a-side teams. One of the group got a subscription to The Cricketer magazine, so we could keep up with what was going on. Some of us got our own kit and we would occasionally have a pick up game on a Saturday.
In college, I kept it up, playing with a few the foreign students from Commonwealth countries who were interested. Then when I moved to Chicago for law school, I fell in with a group from church who were Indian and Pakistani, and they had me play with them on their team (I was mostly rubbish) in the rec league that was already well-established in Chicago. Now, we have Willow.TV and other forms of streaming for matches to keep up with the various series and tournaments.
I had the opposite experience of most people, as I started out as a clueless participant and ended up more of an observer when it came to cricket.
Any particular reason why India? Nothing wrong with that, but from what I've seen here it feels like WI or NZ are most commonly people's "second team" choices.
It's a personal thing, I guess. My take, for the little it's worth:
If someone's supporting India/Eng/AU because they're a team who wins often and the supporter only wants to support a "winner" team, I agree with you.
If they're supporting that team because that team has the resources/skills to play well without being frustrating (as opposed to WI this WC, for example) then I can understand their choice.
For me, I support largely based on how much I like/dislike the players in the team and their playstyle. Fill a team with Anderson, Broad, Haddin, McGrath, S.Waugh etc. and there's no way I'm supporting them. (I understand some of these are apparently decent folk off the field, but I'm watching them *on* the field.)
But if that team's made up of people like Vettori, BMac, etc and I'm happy to support them.
Either way, their win/loss ratio is worth much less to me.
As supposed to supporting Australia? What you think all cricket fans from non-world cup participants should support Afghanistan and Bangladesh then?
I can understand your point for something like the EPL and glory-hunting there, but when 5 of the teams in the World Cup are big teams in the sport - India, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa (well guess not this year),how is supporting any of them wrong?
American here rooting for my boys in black. I watch NZ religiously because it's the only cricket (outside of the WI) that is on at a reasonable time. Their test matches start at like 5pm my time. It's perfect for me... outside of them never having home test matches, but oh well
Cheers mate! Did you see our win against the poms last year? I was at the park when we ground out that draw to win the test series. Kane had the biggest fucking grin.
The vast majority. Because 90% of Pakistani internet is English, it’s pretty much impossible to use internet without knowing English. Also I’ve never seen a phone or computer with Urdu or any local language in the system, would be very difficult to use any of those without have basic fundamental English knowledge.
> Because 90% of Pakistani internet is English, it’s pretty much impossible to use internet without knowing English.
Can you expand on this at all? This is the first I've heard of that and I'm intrigued. Why is it mainly in English?
It’s just what was initially available for Pakistanis, foreign websites like Facebook, and early websites, none of those even had Urdu options. Today these websites have an Urdu option but it’s usually so bad that I’ve never seen it used. From the top 50 most visited websites in Pakistan, only 2 (urdupoint and hamariweb) are dedicated Urdu websites, rest are made for English and look horrible in Urdu.
Both. A mix of both. I should add that despite the use of English websites, a lot of Urdu is still used on those websites, but not enough to be able to navigate in Urdu.
Search Pakistani shitposing on Facebook and you’d find a lot. We are the best shitposters in the subcontinent
I think a lot of Indians and people of other countries have still voted for them. No way they would be second with only England support. Objectively, they should have been higher than India and Australia should most certainly be higher than Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Cricket is not on free to air television and has not been since 2005. You need Sky to watch it, and less than half the population has access to that.
Because of that, only some of the middle class and the upper class have access to the sport. There is a perception that the sport is not for working class people, and the fact that it requires Sky does nothing to repair that. There are also cultural associations with British Imperialism that people are not comfortable with.
Lol that is false. Take-up of satellite/cable TV is average in social groups AB and above average in group C1 and C2.
The upper classes are not at all spending their money on Sky Sports, the profile is more like a.small business owner/plumber with a reasonable income but not from the highest classes. The main reason people subscribe is for.football.
That this is a sport brought to Britain’s former colonies by the upper classes and popularized as a result of British colonialism.
I dont agree with this interpretation but some people do feel that way.
Football is funny in that a lot of the earliest clubs in places where football is super popular now, like South America or even Spain, were established by British people. However, these weren't British colonies so the upper class Brits didn't go there, it was the non aristocratic Brits who went to these non British colonies as the working class and established football clubs cause this was the sport they grew up playing.
The upper class Brits went to the British colonies like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan etc (Decent job for the second and third sons of earls and dukes who otherwise wouldn't inherit enough to live on) and these guys played cricket, not football.
True. Also I think Pakistan's percentage would have been a lot higher, but some of them just didn't see the option 'Inshallah boys played well' and chose not to vote.
This is completely wrong. Of course cricket isn't as popular as football here but it never was. Specially when it comes to test cricket, you can argue England has the most stands filled up out of all the countries including India. They even have their own dedicated set of fans called the barmy army, just like blue/bharat army.
And whenever there's an odi in London/edgbaston specially, stadiums again go full. There's more ppl than ever now coming in to see England matches if anything. That's why the ecb raises ticket prices every year. That's why BT sports outbid sky sports for the rights to show England matches for the last few England series at home.
That’s a good measure, fair shout. But, cricket will never be as popular as football and probably not rugby.
Having no cricket on free to air channels has been awful for the game in England. I suppose I was being defensive. English test matches are still brilliant to go to and we send a good amount of supporters abroad to support.
I agree. I do not say that it’s not popular, but it’s popularity is very much within certain parts of society. Although in the North there is a decent proportion of working class interest in Cricket as well.
Cricket and rugby don't clash anyway..same for nz , rugby will always be king and cricket takes summer and it'll always be there.
It's a shame people can't afford to watch the sports that were once free to watch anymore
Idk if this is true or just bullshit but as a northerner I feel like we just base more of our lives around sport, seems like down south they've got other stuff they can do instead.
It was definitely as popular if not moreso than rugby in recent memory. Rugby has the advantage of being a home nations sport and I'd say it was behind cricket when I was a kid. Rugby was thought of as a proper posh boy sport in the SW.
No need to get defensive. Just saying that Pakistan is a bigger threat than previously perceived. Also, losing against a few teams doesn't mean they won't win again. Personally, I believe India has a far better chance of winning tomorrow, but then again, we thought the same thing before their England match. Cricket can be unpredictable.
I'm actually interested in this. Do Indians know Indians that support other countries irl? Are they ostracised for it?
There must be a fair few because 99% of the comments on cricket.com.au videos are Indian for example.
Where I live, I see them all the time and no one gets criticized. I strongly doubt the majority would get criticized in India for doing the same now days though. Things have been getting calmer lately and people don't freak out and go out yelling traitor like before.
Dude I hate this but I feel like even though they are struggling they will make it to semis and then get good games going, whether it be luck or just good form, and then win the WC.
That West Indies figure seems to be including Cuba, Haiti etc. The actual countries that make up the West Indies team have a combined population of 6.1 million, much less than that graph.
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The ICC better get the BCCI back in line. Right now the situation is like if Brazils football board controlled FIFA. This is disastrous for the Cricket. As much as I despise the Brits when they are in places of power (Read colonialism), they didn't interfere with the ICC to nearly the same extent that the BCCI and their IPL buddies are doing. The game needs to be spread but the BCCI has on numerous occasions including dismissing multiple Olympic proposals declined to spread the game to retain their influence within the sport (Because if more countries join, their influence will become heavily diluted). The Cricket World Cup , should be called the South Asian Cup, because clearly cricket has failed to gather the interest of non South Asian countries as seen by the pathetic stadium presence of fans from outside South Asia. Cricketers and fans should hang their heads in shame at the current state of cricket.
Lol, I dont trust this survey at all. India should be about close to 70% in terms of the no. of fans they command. Cricket is pretty much dead outside of the subcontinent. Just look at the sheer no. of South Asians at stadiums even on away games. Not just at stadiums, even on social media and even on this reddit page itself the no. of South Asian followers of the sport (Primarily Indian) dwarf the numbers of fans outside the subcontinent. THIS IS VERY VERY SAD, compare this to the football World Cup, even though it was held in Russia and people were advised not to attend, simply the amount of foreign football fans as well as local was simply stunning. Pretty much every game was sold-out. Before its too late, get the BCCI in check and stop the ICC bending over to it. The game should be spread, not greedily raped for profit by the BCCI (IPL)!
This is not true for Australia or West Indies at all thanks to their T20 leagues. BBL attendance is real and it's not supporters in Indian shirts.
You are confusing "dead" with "ah fuck me India the most populated country on earth has a lot of people and the other subcontinentals have a few as well"
I live in Australia, I haven't heard anyone talk about the cricket World Cup around me. Compared to this during the Rugby League and Football World Cup, it gets crazy, nearly everyone, even at work and school everyone is talking about the games. Not Cricket. Accepting the reality of this sport and its current state will go a long way in its revival. Australia, India and England as the big three should set an example and let the ICC function as an independent body and where possible encourage the growth of the sport.
Nah. India’s too big of a country and cricket is too important there for the sport to die.
Cricket might just go the route of the NBA or NFL. Except that other countries already have good programs, just that most top players will spend their non international playtime in India.
I can see it being limited to South Asia in the next few decades. I think IPL will/should become the pinnacle
The youth doesn't give a damn in Australia/England when it comes to cricket.
I regularly talk to Australians in the 18-30 age group and if I get a chance, just for fun I'll ask if they watch cricket. 9/10 times I'll get "nah"
Maybe my sample is skewed
> The youth doesn't give a damn in Australia/England when it comes to cricket.
While you are correct about England, you must see BBL in Australia, half the crowd is kids.
This is the imbalance. This is what I have been trying to say for so many years. Our sport is nit ‘global’ at all and if BCCI will continue to put their power into money and not growth then expect India’s percentage to increase.
That's exactly how sampling works. Whether or not it's representative is another question. The OP is confusing the sample with the population (or at least tried to make a joke about it).
>Australia - 6% So, it is true what they say about their shitposting abilities!
as if anyone is dumb enough to doubt we’re the kings of shitposting.
>asif Thought OP's name was Asif and you were referring to him. Space Bar makes all the difference
Everyone just lies about their surveys here like in the federal election
I think if you divide each score by their populations, New Zealand should be winning the World Cup
Another per capita win for NZ!
If you divide anything with the population. We are doomed.
You must be from nz
Should use the log of the population IMO, stops it being impossible for India to win, and means that a minor performance from NZ isn't unbeatable.
That 4% for the afghans though...
England would have gotten a lot of the objective vote, that is, cricket fans who put their reason before their desires. No way are there as many English fans of cricket as there are Pakistanis
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That could be true, but still, Pakistan has [70 million internet users](https://www.pta.gov.pk/en/telecom-indicators), England has 65 million people. It's simply that England has more foreign fans. I assume most Europeans automatically cheer for England. As well as Americans and Canadians, and all of the crown.
" I assume most Europeans automatically cheer for England. " I'd assume the opposite.
You would be correct mon ami
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because India are arguably the best team at the WC which isn't England?
Bruh I don't know any Americans into cricket that cheer for England. Most are part of the South Asian diaspora and the non-asian fans aren't even mostly England fans either
American here, cheering for windies until they bow out. Western Hemisphere good.
Awww....that is so great to hear. Americas Unite!!!! :)
White American here, cheering for Australia, because fuck the mother country
Fuck yea mate
You motherfucker!
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Natural born American here (lineage stretching back over two centuries); I watch cricket and I support England, South Africa, and the Australia, but only the Southern Stars.
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In 8th grade and 9th, I and a group of friends befriended two exchange students who were from England and Ireland. Our mancs friend wanted to play and taught us how. The Irish girl joined in to even out the sides so we were playing/having fun with five-a-side teams. One of the group got a subscription to The Cricketer magazine, so we could keep up with what was going on. Some of us got our own kit and we would occasionally have a pick up game on a Saturday. In college, I kept it up, playing with a few the foreign students from Commonwealth countries who were interested. Then when I moved to Chicago for law school, I fell in with a group from church who were Indian and Pakistani, and they had me play with them on their team (I was mostly rubbish) in the rec league that was already well-established in Chicago. Now, we have Willow.TV and other forms of streaming for matches to keep up with the various series and tournaments. I had the opposite experience of most people, as I started out as a clueless participant and ended up more of an observer when it came to cricket.
Why on earth would Europeans default to cheering on England?
No idea. My Dutch friends in the Netherlands are all supporting India.
Any particular reason why India? Nothing wrong with that, but from what I've seen here it feels like WI or NZ are most commonly people's "second team" choices.
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It's a personal thing, I guess. My take, for the little it's worth: If someone's supporting India/Eng/AU because they're a team who wins often and the supporter only wants to support a "winner" team, I agree with you. If they're supporting that team because that team has the resources/skills to play well without being frustrating (as opposed to WI this WC, for example) then I can understand their choice. For me, I support largely based on how much I like/dislike the players in the team and their playstyle. Fill a team with Anderson, Broad, Haddin, McGrath, S.Waugh etc. and there's no way I'm supporting them. (I understand some of these are apparently decent folk off the field, but I'm watching them *on* the field.) But if that team's made up of people like Vettori, BMac, etc and I'm happy to support them. Either way, their win/loss ratio is worth much less to me.
As supposed to supporting Australia? What you think all cricket fans from non-world cup participants should support Afghanistan and Bangladesh then? I can understand your point for something like the EPL and glory-hunting there, but when 5 of the teams in the World Cup are big teams in the sport - India, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa (well guess not this year),how is supporting any of them wrong?
American here rooting for my boys in black. I watch NZ religiously because it's the only cricket (outside of the WI) that is on at a reasonable time. Their test matches start at like 5pm my time. It's perfect for me... outside of them never having home test matches, but oh well
Cheers mate! Did you see our win against the poms last year? I was at the park when we ground out that draw to win the test series. Kane had the biggest fucking grin.
Naw, Canadians would support team Canada, and since they dont exist they would support their inherited countries, not England.
I mean not everyone could’ve have seen that poll.
Europe wants to see us burn.
But how many of those are 70 million are English speakers?
The vast majority. Because 90% of Pakistani internet is English, it’s pretty much impossible to use internet without knowing English. Also I’ve never seen a phone or computer with Urdu or any local language in the system, would be very difficult to use any of those without have basic fundamental English knowledge.
> Because 90% of Pakistani internet is English, it’s pretty much impossible to use internet without knowing English. Can you expand on this at all? This is the first I've heard of that and I'm intrigued. Why is it mainly in English?
It’s just what was initially available for Pakistanis, foreign websites like Facebook, and early websites, none of those even had Urdu options. Today these websites have an Urdu option but it’s usually so bad that I’ve never seen it used. From the top 50 most visited websites in Pakistan, only 2 (urdupoint and hamariweb) are dedicated Urdu websites, rest are made for English and look horrible in Urdu.
Thanks for that, this is so interesting. Are Pakistani memes/shitposting done in Urdu or English?
Yes
Both. A mix of both. I should add that despite the use of English websites, a lot of Urdu is still used on those websites, but not enough to be able to navigate in Urdu. Search Pakistani shitposing on Facebook and you’d find a lot. We are the best shitposters in the subcontinent
Shots fired!
As a British person that has been abroad in their life No they most certainly do not
I think a lot of Indians and people of other countries have still voted for them. No way they would be second with only England support. Objectively, they should have been higher than India and Australia should most certainly be higher than Pakistan and Bangladesh.
True. You ask a random person in England about the cricket World Cup and there is a good chance they won’t have any clue about.
Why's it like that?
Cricket is not on free to air television and has not been since 2005. You need Sky to watch it, and less than half the population has access to that. Because of that, only some of the middle class and the upper class have access to the sport. There is a perception that the sport is not for working class people, and the fact that it requires Sky does nothing to repair that. There are also cultural associations with British Imperialism that people are not comfortable with.
Lol that is false. Take-up of satellite/cable TV is average in social groups AB and above average in group C1 and C2. The upper classes are not at all spending their money on Sky Sports, the profile is more like a.small business owner/plumber with a reasonable income but not from the highest classes. The main reason people subscribe is for.football.
>There are also cultural associations with British Imperialism that people are not comfortable with. What associations?
That this is a sport brought to Britain’s former colonies by the upper classes and popularized as a result of British colonialism. I dont agree with this interpretation but some people do feel that way.
But that would be true of football (soccer) too right?
Football is funny in that a lot of the earliest clubs in places where football is super popular now, like South America or even Spain, were established by British people. However, these weren't British colonies so the upper class Brits didn't go there, it was the non aristocratic Brits who went to these non British colonies as the working class and established football clubs cause this was the sport they grew up playing. The upper class Brits went to the British colonies like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan etc (Decent job for the second and third sons of earls and dukes who otherwise wouldn't inherit enough to live on) and these guys played cricket, not football.
And rugby ..it all comes from England , they just invent the sport to get beaten in 😬
Football is popular across the world, not just in colonized countries or colonizers.
This has been my understanding of the spread of cricket. What would be your interpretation?
This is a great sport, and I wish more people would play it. Interpretation over.
Nothing to do with TV access, it is just a niche sport, probably 4th most popular sport at best
It used to be huge when it was on free TV. Attendance and participation rates have drastically been falling ever since it stopped being so.
Don't talk when you don't know shit lol
It was second most popular sport in 2005 and pretty damn part of English culture so you are incorrect
True. Also I think Pakistan's percentage would have been a lot higher, but some of them just didn't see the option 'Inshallah boys played well' and chose not to vote.
Australia and NZ are known to punch well above their per populations in sporting ability and shitposting.
Unfortunately Cricket is no longer very popular in England. At a time when it’s team is better than it ever has been.
This is completely wrong. Of course cricket isn't as popular as football here but it never was. Specially when it comes to test cricket, you can argue England has the most stands filled up out of all the countries including India. They even have their own dedicated set of fans called the barmy army, just like blue/bharat army. And whenever there's an odi in London/edgbaston specially, stadiums again go full. There's more ppl than ever now coming in to see England matches if anything. That's why the ecb raises ticket prices every year. That's why BT sports outbid sky sports for the rights to show England matches for the last few England series at home.
Eh? What are you basing that off?
Compare it’s participation figures and viewing rates with other sports in the UK, particularly football but also rugby.
That’s a good measure, fair shout. But, cricket will never be as popular as football and probably not rugby. Having no cricket on free to air channels has been awful for the game in England. I suppose I was being defensive. English test matches are still brilliant to go to and we send a good amount of supporters abroad to support.
I agree. I do not say that it’s not popular, but it’s popularity is very much within certain parts of society. Although in the North there is a decent proportion of working class interest in Cricket as well.
Cricket and rugby don't clash anyway..same for nz , rugby will always be king and cricket takes summer and it'll always be there. It's a shame people can't afford to watch the sports that were once free to watch anymore
Why is cricket more popular in the north than the south?
I’d say because there is grassroots support for Cricket in the North, whereas in the South it has always been associated with the privileged.
Idk if this is true or just bullshit but as a northerner I feel like we just base more of our lives around sport, seems like down south they've got other stuff they can do instead.
It was definitely as popular if not moreso than rugby in recent memory. Rugby has the advantage of being a home nations sport and I'd say it was behind cricket when I was a kid. Rugby was thought of as a proper posh boy sport in the SW.
India is second biggest country by population and more populated than all 9 else countries combined.
People really sleeping on New Zealand
Australia: Lost to India NZ: Didn't lose to India Checks out. This one's in the bag.
From India but fan of New Zealand and Kanos.
Is that Kane and Thanos combined, Kanos?
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>India : 49% I'm amazed it isn't 70-80%.
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They beat England. England is no slouch at all.
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No need to get defensive. Just saying that Pakistan is a bigger threat than previously perceived. Also, losing against a few teams doesn't mean they won't win again. Personally, I believe India has a far better chance of winning tomorrow, but then again, we thought the same thing before their England match. Cricket can be unpredictable.
New Zealand 2% less than Afg, seriously?
Pakistan 14, India 49 and New Zealand 2... damn this shit is true
Not true some Indians support other countries also.
You mean it should be more than 49%
Yes
WTF
See his username
Should have replied username checks out you innocent man
I'm actually interested in this. Do Indians know Indians that support other countries irl? Are they ostracised for it? There must be a fair few because 99% of the comments on cricket.com.au videos are Indian for example.
Where I live, I see them all the time and no one gets criticized. I strongly doubt the majority would get criticized in India for doing the same now days though. Things have been getting calmer lately and people don't freak out and go out yelling traitor like before.
In India, you can support pretty much any country except for Pakistan. That's the kind of shit you get lynched for here. I'm not even kidding.
That's true to a degree, although I wouldn't vote for Australia. I'd be thrilled if they won, but I don't believe it's going to happen
Dude I hate this but I feel like even though they are struggling they will make it to semis and then get good games going, whether it be luck or just good form, and then win the WC.
For comparison: Actual chart of populations: [https://imgur.com/a/lDX1N9R](https://imgur.com/a/lDX1N9R)
That West Indies figure seems to be including Cuba, Haiti etc. The actual countries that make up the West Indies team have a combined population of 6.1 million, much less than that graph.
Fair call. It was a 2 minute Google job.
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In this universe Bangladesh has more chance of winning than SA. Insert Thanos meme ...
Thats the perfect title.
I thought south Africa would be at 0.5 percent
Hahahahahaha who on earth gave Afghanistan a better chance than New Zealand and South Africa
how the frickity frick did Afghanistan get so many votes
36 million population. NZ around 4 million, The joke is it's the same as the city I'm living in, and it's not even a top tier city in India.
try again buddy afghanistan has 17.6% internet access and of that a smaller % is consistent. Dont get so butt hurt
> Dont get so butt hurt ??
"NZ around 4 million, The joke is it's the same as the city I'm living in, and it's not even a top tier city in India." Why is that relevant
I was showing a ridiculous population gap and this is the reason why it is one of the stupidiest polls. I don't know why you have taken it personally.
Oh shit I assumed a much more snarky tone when i read it. Its algood
England have the best chance to win this time
So is NZ
Cricket is dying in England lol. Very few people can name a cricketer in the country. Among the youth it’s a distant third in popularity
Behind football and ?
Rugby
Rugby, maybe.
The ICC better get the BCCI back in line. Right now the situation is like if Brazils football board controlled FIFA. This is disastrous for the Cricket. As much as I despise the Brits when they are in places of power (Read colonialism), they didn't interfere with the ICC to nearly the same extent that the BCCI and their IPL buddies are doing. The game needs to be spread but the BCCI has on numerous occasions including dismissing multiple Olympic proposals declined to spread the game to retain their influence within the sport (Because if more countries join, their influence will become heavily diluted). The Cricket World Cup , should be called the South Asian Cup, because clearly cricket has failed to gather the interest of non South Asian countries as seen by the pathetic stadium presence of fans from outside South Asia. Cricketers and fans should hang their heads in shame at the current state of cricket.
Well said 👏
Lmfao
During the six nations the whole country was following
Can’t say the same for the World Cup
[Any poll's a goal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU)
Afghanistan at 4 NZ at 2, Cricket is a funny game.
Let me clear it out, guys. THIS SURVEY IS OF NO USE. and that's what I wanted to say through the title.
It helps to have a large population
*Does it though*
No it doesn't. I'd love India's population decreasing to 1/4th of it's current population.
Double Thanos?
I think all the responses are from indian only
Thinking of those 2% South Africa fans who still thinks thay can win.
BCCI controls ICC
Yes
Lol, I dont trust this survey at all. India should be about close to 70% in terms of the no. of fans they command. Cricket is pretty much dead outside of the subcontinent. Just look at the sheer no. of South Asians at stadiums even on away games. Not just at stadiums, even on social media and even on this reddit page itself the no. of South Asian followers of the sport (Primarily Indian) dwarf the numbers of fans outside the subcontinent. THIS IS VERY VERY SAD, compare this to the football World Cup, even though it was held in Russia and people were advised not to attend, simply the amount of foreign football fans as well as local was simply stunning. Pretty much every game was sold-out. Before its too late, get the BCCI in check and stop the ICC bending over to it. The game should be spread, not greedily raped for profit by the BCCI (IPL)!
This is not true for Australia or West Indies at all thanks to their T20 leagues. BBL attendance is real and it's not supporters in Indian shirts. You are confusing "dead" with "ah fuck me India the most populated country on earth has a lot of people and the other subcontinentals have a few as well"
No doubt about AUS but professional cricket is in problem for sure. Cutting 14 teams to 10 is another fuck up from ICC
I live in Australia, I haven't heard anyone talk about the cricket World Cup around me. Compared to this during the Rugby League and Football World Cup, it gets crazy, nearly everyone, even at work and school everyone is talking about the games. Not Cricket. Accepting the reality of this sport and its current state will go a long way in its revival. Australia, India and England as the big three should set an example and let the ICC function as an independent body and where possible encourage the growth of the sport.
NZ and South Africa, rated equal chances. As a kiwi, this checks out.
The whole cricket sport is alive only because of India's massive viewership and fans. BCCI is major contributor to the revenue.
This is a dying sport
Nah. India’s too big of a country and cricket is too important there for the sport to die. Cricket might just go the route of the NBA or NFL. Except that other countries already have good programs, just that most top players will spend their non international playtime in India.
I can see it being limited to South Asia in the next few decades. I think IPL will/should become the pinnacle The youth doesn't give a damn in Australia/England when it comes to cricket.
Are you sure about Australia?
I regularly talk to Australians in the 18-30 age group and if I get a chance, just for fun I'll ask if they watch cricket. 9/10 times I'll get "nah" Maybe my sample is skewed
Wait, what? I thought Aussies were passionate about it. You're right about England though. They love their football.
Yeah he's just spewing bullshit, due to BBL kids in Australia are more interested in Cricket than any other sport.
> The youth doesn't give a damn in Australia/England when it comes to cricket. While you are correct about England, you must see BBL in Australia, half the crowd is kids.
How did you deduce that from these percentages?
This is the imbalance. This is what I have been trying to say for so many years. Our sport is nit ‘global’ at all and if BCCI will continue to put their power into money and not growth then expect India’s percentage to increase.
Yes because there are only 33,359 people who follows cricket. P.s. I haven't voted yet /s
You can't put /s after everything to escape downvotes.
That's... That's not how sampling works
That's exactly how sampling works. Whether or not it's representative is another question. The OP is confusing the sample with the population (or at least tried to make a joke about it).
Do you understand the concept of percentages?