>Cricket is Australia's current number one participation sport after record numbers picked up a bat and ball in 2015-16, while almost one quarter of all players are female, the National Cricket Census has revealed.
>A record 1,311,184 people played cricket across Australia in 2015-16, an 8.5 per cent increase on 2014-15 – placing cricket at No.1 as the current top participation sport in Australia.
>Women's cricket at the highest level went from strength to strength last summer with the success of the Women's Big Bash League and that success is being reflected at grassroots level, where participation reached record figures in 2015-16, growing nine per cent to 314,936 players.
>Overall, 24 per cent of all cricketers in Australia are female, with 581 girls and women’s teams playing traditional, 11-a-side cricket at clubs across the county.
>Sutherland said the record participation numbers followed record attendances and television audiences last summer. "We had a considerable 2015-16 season with more than 1.7 million Australians attending international cricket and the men’s and women’s Big Bash League, making last season the country’s most attended cricket season on record.
cricket is absolutely baffling to me, it's like they saw baseball and tried to make it even more boring and uninteresting
yes I know cricket came first and that makes this sport even more pathetic
Oliver Ward
PLEASE
Andrew Foster
cricket is comfy tbqhfam
Lucas Perry
>mfw shitcunt Greek and Italian wop cunts would arguing with the umpire after getting dismissed in local cricket
$20 anytime you see some shistos pezza cunt surname on the card there'll be some sort of unneeded on-field drama
Jordan Parker
I played against a few Hellenic teams over the last few years and they've been pretty decent blokes.
They all wore shirts that were too tight and they left about a thousand pistachio shells in the pavilion, though.
Anthony Perry
Australian Rules Football is STILL our national sport and nothing will change that, especially not participation rates.
Juan Anderson
cricket is gay
Xavier Sanders
>only one good player on the Ausfailian team >is a wog convicts will defend this
Ryan Cox
T20 cricket is pretty entertaining. Test cricket is the worst though, it lasts for 5 days.
David Cook
>national sport >is COMPLETELY irrelevant in the 1st and 3rd most relevant states in the country
kek
KEK
K E K
Ethan Howard
no. games last DAYS.
Asher Wood
t20's are the same duration as a spicswing game my Big and Strong friend
Alexander Davis
Test cricket is the perfect sporting contest ever crafted.
Caleb Sullivan
gr8 ba8 ma8
Hudson James
>implying a millennial user like myself cares about either sport.
Josiah Thomas
Terrible internet speeds really has deluded you guys down unda.
Oliver Watson
>implying cricket won't be dead in 25 years
Jackson Powell
>devoting more time to a boring sport only indians care about
Sad!
Jason Johnson
t. goan Alberto Barbossa
Kayden Edwards
>only Indians care about Apparently not.
Luke Reed
I meant besides us, no one else really cares.
You guys need to branch out too, soccer is easy to learn and other poor countries are good at it.
Hudson Wilson
t10 will save cricket
Nicholas Butler
>2nd most popular sport in the world >played on every continent >will be the most popular sport in Germany within 20 years
Nolan Hill
>tfw afghanis were laughing at the players physiques in a WC qualifying match pls no bully
Brandon Sanders
Why do you keep doing this? It's weird.
kek, there's got to be 11 good players out of a billion there
Bentley Smith
>most popular sport in Germany in 20 years The people invading Germany aren't South Asians but Arabs and Africans. They don't even know what cricket is besides the chirpy bugs at night.
Isn't tennis the most popular sport? I know literally nobody who plays cricket and a dozen or so who play tennis competitively.
Robert Perez
How?
Poor cunts don't play tennis.
Justin Perez
genuine question
when was the last time you left your house?
Cooper Rogers
Here NZ 80% play cricket are indian/paki
Sad really
Asher Morris
what's sadder is they still can't get into the NZ team
Daniel Sanchez
> literally the sport invented to keep crickets fit over the winter
Cooper Jenkins
SO Germany really doesn't give a shit if you are arab or not anymore. Open border policy for all brown people.
Joseph Barnes
Yesterday why? Who the fuck still plays cricket anyway?
Blake Hill
You guys didn't have weight rooms or jogged? You literally had to invent a new sport because those other things didn't pop into your head about the subject of staying fit?
Logan Nelson
pls no bully
Blake Bell
it just that inventing a new sport ti stay fit seems a tad over complicating the issue.
James Cox
Remember at the time this was invented gyms weren't on ever corner and weightlifting and cardio programmes barely existed outside of boxing and competitive weight lifting.
It's only been the last 20-30 years that gyms have become mainstream here. No one I knew used to goto the gym.. nowdays everyone does.
Bentley Myers
Just admit you guys didn't use gyms because you hate Greeks.
Caleb Walker
Yet Australia is still fucking trash at it, humiliated by poo in loo's little brother Sri Lanka.
tip top fucking kek
Parker Thompson
Holy shit Germany pls start becoming even more cuck so we can start seeing you play ODIs and shit
Jack Ramirez
it'll just be a different shade of UAE what i really want to see is 6ft+ 150+ german fast bowlers desu
Henry Young
Wogs BTFO! :D
Jacob Scott
Picked up a cricket catalogue in the letterbox today, m8s. Nostalgia hit me for six. >that cold wet feel when you accidentally piss in the box >the mocking laughter of your teammates when they all have Kookaburra and Gray-Nicholls bats and you're rocking an SS Jumbo >getting dropped further and further down the batting order >where did all the time go, m8s, where did all the time go?
Kevin Parker
>National Cricket Census
Angel Martin
desu soccer and rugby (and thus american football) only became proper sports so that cricketers had something to play in the winter.
Carson Howard
>The National Cricket Census was conducted by independent researcher Street Ryan – who is also responsible for similar auditing of Australia’s other major participation sports, including AFL, NRL, ARU, basketball, hockey and golf – and measured participation over the last financial year, with a ‘participant’ defined as someone who takes part in at least four sessions of a formal cricket program.
nice try
Mason Murphy
Went to my first Boxing Day test match last year. Two beers in and I fell asleep. Never agaiin
Isaiah Campbell
>against the West Indies, a team most Sydney grade sides would beat you're own fault for being an idiot tbqh
Jordan Stewart
t. Will 'Willy' Williamson
Justin Johnson
>test cricket
Adrian Martinez
Based T20 is putting the sport on its shoulders and bring in the millenials.
Test cricket will soon be exclusively played in golden oldies grade. Or better yet, banned altogether.
Oliver Sanchez
Yeah I know I'm an idiot for watching a shit sport
Landon Collins
Do they actually have 'Portugese' people in Goa?
Zachary Martinez
hahaahahahahaha
Liam Cook
Not many I suppose. Just a handful of actual Portuguese. Nowadays Goa is controlled by the Russian and Israeli mafia (and the odd Nigerians).
Jaxon Bell
>P-P-P-P-Please notice me Mr Big Strong Chinamen
kys threadcunt you pathetic piece of literal dog shit
Julian Myers
It's time to end your miserable masquerade of """""football"""""
Nathan Williams
I went to school with an Indian guy from Goa who had a Portuguese name for some reason
Did they cuck you guys by giving you European names?
Andrew Campbell
>The Census also revealed a 28 per cent increase in multicultural participation, a 40 per cent increase in Indigenous participation and 70 per cent increase in disability participation from the last census.
you are absolutely seething right now
Bentley Edwards
>t. Bilal Mallah
Caleb Lopez
Cricket seems pretty gay, it's considered the closest thing to baseball which is also really gay. Basically both are for cock smokers
Tyler Turner
Indian Christians and Muslims have an identity crisis. They have Arab and Portuguese (western) names and they deny the fact that they have the same roots as all the other Indians. Tbf to the Christians it's mostly the muzzies of the subcontinent who go "WE WUZ PERSO-ARABIC AND SHIT".