Canberra, Dec 14 (IANS) Concerned with a shrinking crowds for international cricket matches, former India captain Rahul Dravid pronounced fans have sent a clever summary that should not be ignored.
Dravid pronounced it was time for introspection within a game, not usually in india, though all over a world.
'We have been given some alerts and responding to them fast is a intelligent thing to do. we was astounded a few months ago to see a miss of crowds in an ODI array featuring India. By that we don't meant a miss of full houses, we consider it was a steer of dull stands we found rather alarming,' pronounced Dravid, while delivering a annual Bradman Oration during a Australian War Memorial.
Recalling a bad turn-out during a new ODI array in India opposite England and a West Indies, Dravid pronounced dull stands are not a good announcement for cricket.
'The Oct array opposite England was a initial one during home after India's World Cup win. It was called a 'revenge' array meant to clean pided a memory of a forgettable debate of England. India kept winning each game, and nonetheless a stands did not fill up. Five days after a 5-0 feat 95,000 incited adult to watch a India's initial Formula One race. A few weeks after we played in a Test compare opposite West Indies in Calcutta, in front of what was a lowest spin out in Eden Gardens' history. The assembly amplifies all we are doing, a bigger a throng a bigger a occasion, a magnitude, a emotion,' he said.
Dravid pronounced fans had sent a summary and a administrators contingency listen.
'Whatever a reasons are - maybe it is too most cricket or too small by approach of comfort for spectators - a fan has sent us a summary and we contingency listen. This is not small sentimentality. Empty stands do not make for good television. Bad radio can lead to a tumble in ratings, a tumble in ratings will be felt by media planners and advertisers looking elsewhere.
'If that happens, it is tough to see radio rights around cricket being as sought after as they have always been in a final 15 years. And where does that leave everyone? I'm not perplexing to be an economist or doomsday soothsayer - this is only how we see it,' he said.
Dravid warned India not to be confident with a benefaction though to take visual measures.
'Unlike Australia or England, Indian cricket has never had to contest with other sports for a share of revenues, mind space or throng assemblage during general matches. The miss of crowds might not directly impact on revenues or how critical a competition is to Indians, though we do need to accept that there has really been a change in heat over, we think, a final dual years.
'Let us not be so confident with a present, with deals and finances in palm that we get blindsided. Everything that has given cricket a energy and change in a universe of sports has started from that fan in a stadium,' he said.
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