WWE stars are more popular than Alastair Cook among the English kids

Sep 17, 2016 at 5:32 PM

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WWE stars are more popular than Alastair Cook among the English kids

English countryside Derbyshire chairman Chris Grant said that the findings  from a market research revealed that  English kids are more interest in WWE than cricket.

The research is conducted by  England Wales Cricket  Board (ECB) into the game’s popularity.

“More kids these days can recognise a WWE wrestler than the England captain,” Grant told BBC Radio Derby.

“Only a third could recognise Alastair and I think we’ve got to improve that.”

He further added,  “That was a fascinating statistic they gave us.”

Grant also said that people are also interested in T20 cricket as this ear belongs to ‘financially sustainable’ era for Twenty20.

English cricket is poised to get a new eight-team Twenty 20 competition, which, if approved, could start as early as 2018, in an attempt to boost the profile of the sport.

The franchise-based tournament would run alongside the existing 18 team T20 Blast and would be held at city based Test grounds, but Grant is unfazed by the potential impact on one of English cricket’s smallest counties.

“I think a lot of the negativity surrounds the fact that people feel that this will be the death of Derbyshire County Cricket Club,” he said.

“I really don’t see it that way. I think actually it could lead to 18 counties becoming stronger, a lot stronger and certainly more financially sustainable.

“The devil will be in the detail, there’s a lot of work at the ECB still to be done. We don’t know where these teams will be based, we don’t know what they’ll be called.

“In principle, I think it’s the right way to go and gives Derbyshire the best chance of preserving their first-class status long-term.”

Grant said the priority is encouraging people to play and watch cricket .

“The game has got some real challenges, participation is falling really dramatically and we’ve got to unlock a new audience,” he continued.

“At the moment there are 990,000 people in this country who have attended a game in the recent past, but there are 9.4m people who describe themselves as a cricket follower.

“We’re not really unlocking that extra 8.5m, and I think we’ve got to come up with something fresh and new to actually get them involved and get them to come and attend a game.”

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