Large following which is reducing due to TV coverage and shonky domestic competitions, though way down the list in terms of popularity by participation and mainly played by people with massive anger issues and massively disorganized at all levels. Tis a strange one
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Where does Cricket rank in the national sports hierarchy?
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Linky please..... interested by that.
The payment thing is my own supposition because they estimate that 800,000 watch the London Marathon and athletics doesn't feature.
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@Josh
I think it may have more to do with...English cricket scene
Scottish cricket scene
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Frozen wasteland for 3/4 year and the other 1/4 is just death by midges
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Thats because we all die of heart disease at 16 no?
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but have yet to decipher cricket
Like cycling, you have to get into it to understand what's happening. And then it can be very exciting - of course, because if it weren't no-one would do it or watch it.
You should try watching an entire test match, preferably whilst doing something else. It does draw you in. It's the equivalent of Baseball in the US. You go to chill out, eat, drink, and occasionally cheer. And then if you are lucky you get a brilliant finish.
Also like cycling, it's good to follow at work with a live feed on in the background for when something interesting happens. Even more fun if you work with lots of Indians cos most of them will be following it and you can join in the discussions over a chai.
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In terms of sports bulletin coverage it seems mostly football, with a bit of cricket and an annoyingly large amount of tennis.
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Can't turn it off the tv quick enough ..unless I need something to send me to sleep ..
So pleased that SKY have a seperate channel for football now .Posted 1 hour ago # -
My grandad used to watch it on ceefax or teletext
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It's very regional.
Football number one by miles, but tends to be more suburban and urban and not posh.
Rugby Union is posh boys in the South East but in the South West it's farmers and such.
Cricket is at least number three but more evenly spread. It's all about counties with places as far apart as Yorkshire, Hampshire and Somerset pretty hot. It's also very big among British Asians. Not big in cities or among the working class.
All other sports are enthusiasts sports for people that participate or have participated, except tennis which only exists for two weeks of the year.
Foreign sports like ice hockey and cycling are for IT types who were too shy to play rugby at school.
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I'd put it at number two after football in terms of national consciousness followed by rugby in third although there's probably not much in it for 2nd and 3rd place.
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There's a cricket club in feegie park FFS! One of the most deprived areas of Scotland.
....and Sports Direct at Glasgow Fort sells loads of baseball bats but very few baseballs.
The Easterhouse Dodgers would like to arrange a "Frendly" with the Feegie CC
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fasthaggis said » @Josh
I think it may have more to do with...
English cricket sceneThat village (Tilford) is on my regular offroad riding routes, lovely place.
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@ Fasthaggis - That top piccy is one of my local cricket greens and its lovely, the pub isn't all that good sadly.
I see cricket as a dying sport amongst the mainstream watchers of sports.
I guess it's fairly cheap to broadcast and hence it's still on radio & telly. My sister listens to test matches on the wireless FFS!!!! It will always have a place in British peoples hearts but mainly as a day out in the sunshine. Cricket must appeal to pensioners, lots of free time to spent day after day staring at a tv screen or radio and even after 5 days of playing, its still a draw. Snooker is even worse, about £200 to broadcast a weeks worth of live coverage but it keeps the pensioners quiet.
I would expect American football to overtake cricket in terms of attendance figures before too long, it seems very popular in urban areas.
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My sister listens to test matches on the wireless FFS!!!!
your sister is doing it right.
we might not have an empire anymore, but hopefully the sun never sets on where you can listen to TMS on long wave
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I see cricket as a dying sport amongst the mainstream watchers of sports.
I agree in terms of whitey, but around the Midlands and North West it's very popular among Asians, and it's not at all the John Major leather on willow sort of stuff.
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I see cricket as a dying sport amongst the mainstream watchers of sports.
Only because the ECB have ******* it into a cocked hat by selling it exclusively to Sky / BT.
I'd have cricket on all the time if I had a sky subscription, but I haven't.
Can't even get highlights on terrestrial now...
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the point of TMS is you don't listen to it. You have it on while doing whatever it is you do and it just worms into your consciousness enough so you know what's happening, and can tune your ear in when necessary. Like Blowers spotting a bus on the Harleyford Road, or a particularly grubby pigeon, or Oh Look! A splendid cake, being carried by a lady in a hat.
And with that I'll hand you over to Aggers.
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Also, like rugby union, it’s a bit of an upper class sport. That said, I used to play at a fairly rough comprehensive school in Bolton.
I was at a comprehensive school in a rough part of the west of Scotland and we had a cricket team. A great sport. I do remember hearing a statistic once that said there were actually more people played cricket in Scotland than in England (per head of population) though can't find anything to actually prove that. I do remember Freuchie winning the Village Cup though back in the 80s, something even Ambridge have never managed.
And Test Match Special on longwave is just the most British sports programme ever.
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