‘I think people saw the best of the BBL this season’: League’s GM feels condensed season purpose behind rising numbers

An common of 15,892 attended the non-finals Big Bash League 12 video games, whereas that quantity soared to over 25,000 for the 5 finals.

The 2022/23 season noticed a rising curiosity within the league and should as effectively have been its finest ever model per Alistair Dobson, Cricket Australia’s GM of the BBL.

“We feel like a shorter season is going to be even better again. I think people saw the best of the BBL this season, being able to bring it back by a week or so – the end of season – will allow the overseas players to stay a bit longer, and will hopefully enable the best players to take part and I think in this situation we’d love fans to be really desperate to see as much BBL as they can,” Dobson informed  SEN 1170.

Dobson additional added, “I think crowds are always going to be your key health metric, I think the strength of the broadcast comes off the energy for the crowd. We have some metrics we put around that and this season was the equal most number of close matches ever in the BBL.”

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“They’re all the indicators, but ultimately from our perspective crowds are the key and we were delighted with the way our clubs were able to connect with our fans and bring people into the grounds.”

A serious takeaway from the analytics comes from the truth that the ultimate video games didn’t function the likes of Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne, who joined the Australia Test squad in India.

Dobson added that with the presence of the worldwide Australia stars, the match can be a good larger success. “Getting the best players out there is always part of the mix of the BBL season and if we can find a way for the biggest name Australian players to get out there we always will”.