News Limited reports that the heads of Queensland Cricket and the Brisbane Lions have met with members of the Queensland Government’s 100-day Olympic venue review this week and urged them to abandon the ground after the 2032 Olympics. More: https://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/cricket/queensland-cricket-brisbane-lions-bosses-urge-government-to-abandon-the-gabba/news-story/2a78f5b5fc115b2b392e17d66be69cea
The second face-off between Australia and India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series scored big with viewers, reaching 5.7 million people across Seven and 7plus Sport and dominating Australian television and digital screens. The showdown at Adelaide Oval between cricket’s best teams delivered an average total TV audience of 835,000, up 59% on last year’s…
The first showdown between Australia and India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Seriescaptured the attention of the nation, reaching 6.7 million people across Seven and 7plusSport and dominating television and digital viewing. The clash at Perth Stadium between the giants of world cricket in the first of five Testsdelivered an average total TV audience of…
The 2024 #PacificChampionships were attended by more than 114,816 people across 14 matches, with an average day attendance of 19,136. (73% of capacity) Kiwis/Kangaroos 17,005 @ Apollo Project Stadium (Note Attendances in Port Moresby are Not available at this time – if you can fill the gaps please feel free to DM me) 4.38 million…
The ABC, SEN and Triple M have all extended the amount of cricket they will cover in the lead-up to the 2024-25 summer More cricket will be broadcast across the airwaves with Cricket Australia announcing an expanded suite of audio rights deals for the next seven summers. The ABC, SEN and Triple M, through its…
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Heading into the 2023-24 Summer season, Cricket found itself having to answer a number of questions – what is the BBLs place in the world with burgeoning developments in South Africa, and rumoured expansion of the IPL on the horizon. Can Test cricket remain relevant in the modern era of fast paced cricket and international…
The 2023-24 cricket season has made Seven #1 so far this summer, with a 43.2% all people commercial audience share – its highest ever share at this point in summer. Seven also ranks #1 in people 25 to 54. The three Australia v Pakistan Tests reached 8.75 million people nationally (5.8 million in the capital…
Test crickets much speculated future appears to be in good hands if the first series of the summer is anything to go by with record crowds, and excellent tv ratings, despite no Test lasting into the fifth day. The series was attended by 349,252 at an average of 29,104 across 12 match days. The total…
Welcome to another big weekend in sports news as we head into the A-league finals, and NRL Magic Round. A-league Australian Professional Leagues (APL) today announced an official partnership with SEIKO, the global precision timepiece manufacturer. Discontent provides standard backdrop to Sydney derby laden with symbolism Eurosnobs will never believe it but the current A-League…
Biggest season EVER 🏏 Australian Cricket has set a new attendance record of 2.4 million fans through the gates in 2022/23, including 𝟰𝟯𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 at the SCG 🎟️ pic.twitter.com/GvIXd7Xe65 — Sydney Cricket Ground (@scg) February 28, 2023
ABL R1 of the 2022-23 ABL season had 10,503 spectators (with three Adelaide games still to report), at an average attendance of 808 per match, using 21% of capacity. AFLW AFLW Semi Finals weekend attracted 4,915 people at an average of 2,458 per game (38% capacity). The Finals series so far has seen 19,023 people…
With little to do and not able to sleep I have compiled a graph of total revenue for the major codes in Australian Sport. All information is derived from the Annual Reports of the respective bodies. For some, we were able to go back to 2000 – and further if we wished. For the NRL,…
Its been a big weekend in sport. A-league Men Round 3 of the 2022-23 A-league Mens season saw 64,948 people attend at an average of 10,825, (36% of capacity) This is the highest drawing round, and the Melb derby is the highest crowd of the season to date. Season so far has seen 166,844 people…
Watch every Australia game and finals live and free. Home soil, defending champions, one of the best cricket tournaments in the world – it doesn’t get any better than that. Be prepared to be hit for six when cricket’s ultimate prize will be up for grabs. The 9Network will bring the biggest and best matchups…
Cricket Australia have reported a deficit of 5.5m for 2021-2022, and a comprehensive loss of 10.655m on revenue of $391.004m. Notably there was a $51m drop in the media, broadcasting and marketing sector, while match income rose 25m. Sponsorship was up slightly to 69m. The BBL averaged 500,000 viewers per fixture, streaming not included. 44…
A-league Men Code Week Day Date Time Home Away Venue Crowd Capacity %Capacity ALM 1 Fri 7/10 1945 Melbourne City Western United Aami Park 7,501 30,050 24.96% ALM 1 Sat 8/10 1700 Brisbane Macarthur Suncorp Stadium 8,521 52,500 16.23% ALM 1 Sat 8/10 1945 Sydney FC Melbourne Victory Allianz Stadium 21,840 42,500 51.39% ALM 1…
Its a little later in the day than normal but lets dive in to todays news as Nine conducts negotations with the NRL via its Media arms as Foxtel watches on. The Storm have a minor hiccup on Albury, the AFL gets a new sponsor and a Rugby Australia board member resigns – and plenty…
Its a massive day for sports news of all varieties. The 2019 Ausplay survey has been released, The Storm relocate to Albury, while the A-league prepares for August restart and theres some Rugby CEO speculation thrown in to a big news mix, 2019 Ausplay Survey The latest Ausplay Survey data has been released by Sport…
Plenty of news for followers of all codes today as Peter Vlandys takes on his broadcasters, even as sport nationwide stands to lose $200m. Racing declines to take a back seat to the AFL, and what can a new World Rugby chairman do? A-league and football THE light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel…