Adam Gilchrist legendary Australian cricketer thinks the audience excitement near our team little bit low for the entire ICC T20 World Cup now, With the belief of the ace wicketkeeper-batter there was no feeling of much interest from the way crowds came out to the Australian games”.
Fans’ interest in Australia compared with an audience of India, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, The cricketer said the test between India and Zimbabwe at the MCG where 82,000 spectators did up to witness the Super 12 game, was a completely other meaning.
Although the time may say what is the purpose behind the decreasing interest among the team fans, Australians are losing their passion for national side games, a 50-year cricketer said. I think one of the main reasons for the losing their interest in the game may be Aaron Finch’s game was fall down with the opening Super 12 game of the T20 World Cup to New Zealand by 89 runs.
Australia could not progress into the semifinals, with England’s victory over Sri Lanka on Saturday putting paid to the hosts’ hopes of making the grade.
“You’ve only got to look at the crowds, the crowds were down,” the veteran of 96 Tests told SEN WA Breakfast on Monday. “There was no feeling of a huge excitement about this World Cup from the way crowds turned up to the Australian games.
“On the flip side of that, look at what was almost a dead rubber on Sunday night in Melbourne, Zimbabwe vs India and there are 82,000 people there. That’s just a whole different conversation isn’t it, that’s one of the great phenomena of sports. The Indian passion for the game continues to go to new levels. That’s something that’s really positive and exciting about cricket.”
Perhaps the most telling sign that the home fans could be losing interest in their team is the fact that only 18,672 spectators turned up at the Adelaide Oval to watch Australia’s must-win game against Afghanistan.
“Whether those crowds being down and the appetite and enthusiasm for World Cup is reflective of the current team, I’ve got no idea,” Gilchrist continued. “People vote with their feet, but I don’t know if it was too early in the summer, whether the footy (football) season was so recently completed that we weren’t ready to move to cricket mode yet.
“Any time Australia have hosted a World Cup, men’s or women’s, it’s always been at the end of the summer, so there’s a whole build-up and promotion of it and expectation for it. It felt a little bit flat in that regard around the Aussie team. We’ll see how it plays out over the summer because there’s plenty of cricket coming up,” he added
