This match has brought cricket back to life in England

[Singh bling]

12 hours ago, Vijy said:

Footer first... cricket is far behind.

If Indian football team will do as good as England I think they will also surpass cricket

[kosingh]

20 minutes ago, The Hound said:

 

11.7 million watched women's soccer match between England and USA!

[Franco Vazquez]

 

[Franco Vazquez]

 

12 minutes ago, kosingh said:

11.7 million watched women's soccer match between England and USA!

Cricket had 39 million views on BBC live page. One of the highest in the website history 

[Ranvir]

Why does it have to be compared to football. 

 

No sport can surpass football where football is already well established.

 

Football requires no specialist equipment - just a ball, can be played on a variety of surfaces, involves all players at all times, is free flowing, relatively safe to play and takes less than 2 hours to complete.

 

The best cricket can do in the UK is keep up with sports like Rugby and Boxing, both of which have an image that is a lot cooler to youngsters. This win will help a lot with that but cricket needs to get rid of the image of old men in hats and striped ties watching from the Lords Pavilion.

The sight of the batsmen walking passed a bunch of old posh men when leaving the pavilion was off putting.

[zen]

The final was a great game of cricket which could help to gather more followers in countries where cricket is not the main sport (or in some cases only sport where the country could compete) 

 

Can’t compare with football, which has a global appeal. And when rivals include teams from Europe and South America. If Ind had a team that could compete with top European and South American teams, I would not be surprised to see cricket take a back seat 

Edited July 15, 2019 by zen

[Tattieboy]

1 hour ago, Ranvir said:

Why does it have to be compared to football. 

 

No sport can surpass football where football is already well established.

 

Football requires no specialist equipment - just a ball, can be played on a variety of surfaces, involves all players at all times, is free flowing, relatively safe to play and takes less than 2 hours to complete.

 

The best cricket can do in the UK is keep up with sports like Rugby and Boxing, both of which have an image that is a lot cooler to youngsters. This win will help a lot with that but cricket needs to get rid of the image of old men in hats and striped ties watching from the Lords Pavilion.

The sight of the batsmen walking passed a bunch of old posh men when leaving the pavilion was off putting.

ever been inside Chennai  ground with its very " British " private member's club MCC and you need to be invited as a member .?

[Vilander]

As the dust settles - all class the English. Deserved champions. And NZ boy what a game.

 

 

[Vilander]

Amazing take. 

 

 

[The Realist]

As soon as the football season starts in a few weeks this will be a fading memory as it should be when having won on a technicality at best. 

[diga]

What were the betfair odds for the match being tied and even the super over ending on equal terms... Someone would have made a killing if they had bet on the above

[YCCC]

7 hours ago, The Realist said:

As soon as the football season starts in a few weeks this will be a fading memory as it should be when having won on a technicality at best. 

It won't. Best day of my and every other English cricket fan's life. * football and especially the PL