by Aidan11 » Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:49 pm
A much talked about subject. This season there have been plenty of empty seats. Is International cricket dying in this country?
Well this evening I did something I haven't done in ages - I watched my 1970's cricket test matches DVD. When England played Lord's (yes Lord's) in their test series in 1974 there were loads of empty seats. It was different for the Aussies which seemed to bring full houses but India - with some big names in those days - did not seem to be a big draw.
When a modern day test match ground with a capacity of say 17,000 only brings in 15,000 on a particular day, the talk seems to be about the 2000 empty seats. Maybe we should stop being negative and be glad of the 15,000 who did turn up. After all it is a big number.
So let's not worry about who doesn't turn up cos 15,000 is still a decent crowd. As I've seen for myself, empty seats at an English test match venue are nothing new.
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