Cricket overtakes Football As Number 1 Sport

[BeNatural]

Apparently?

The record-breaking results of the National Cricket Census are in and it's good news for Australian cricket

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. After crunching the numbers, Cricket Australia today unveiled the record-breaking results from this year's National Cricket Census. 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.

[Soccer-Mad]

looks like lots of people enjoy a good sleep

[Sven]

Numbers are rubbish.

There are 1.8million persons playing football versus 0.96 million playing cricket.

Its almost 2 to 1 ratio.

[BeNatural]

FFA Response

[Grosso]

Numbers are rubbish.

There are 1.8million persons playing football versus 0.96 million playing cricket.

Its almost 2 to 1 ratio.

So you say "numbers are rubbish" then contribute your own numbers

[Brian the Postman]

So let me get this straight, their survey (or census) of people that play their game confirmed that of the people they surveyed they played cricket and this number was higher than Aussie rules???

[Grosso]

So let me get this straight, their survey (or census) of people that play their game confirmed that of the people they surveyed they played cricket and this number was higher than Aussie rules???

Aussie rules is only taken seriously in half the states

[PDog]

So let me get this straight, their survey (or census) of people that play their game confirmed that of the people they surveyed they played cricket and this number was higher than Aussie rules???

Aussie rules is only taken seriously in half the states

4 out of 6. More than half.

[The Bluehearts]

What four would they be?

[Wayne Kerr]

Cool story bro....