>The Big Bash League has burst into the top 10 most attended sports leagues in the world.
>The late-season average of 28,279 before Sunday's two games has propelled the BBL to ninth position on the list of the world's most attended sports leagues, nudging ahead of Japan's professional baseball league (28,248) and Indian Super League football (26,376) and ensuring the Canadian Football League (24,737) and Italy's Serie A (23,001) are absent from the top 10.
>Even so, a rise of nearly 5000 spectators per game and the place in the global top 10 to date this season is another representation of the fast emerging success of the BBL.
>Top 10 most watched sports leagues (average crowds, 2015/16)
>1. NFL 68,278
>2. German Bundesliga 43,331
>3. US College Football Division I FBL 43,288
>4. English Premier League 36,464
>5. AFL 33,428
>6. Indian Premier League 31,750*
>7. Major League Baseball 30,517
>8. La Liga 28,498
>9. Big Bash League 28,279
>10. Nippon Professional Baseball 28,248
>* IPL figures are from 2014 tournament when first 20 games were played in the UAE and are unofficial.
KEK
"Test" ""cricket"" on suicide watch
wogball on suicide watch
Yurosmalls on suicide watch
>>64836914
PLEASE WATCH OUR SPORT BIG STRONG FOREIGNERS
Cant wait until NZ gets a BBL team
>leagues
can't remember the last time test cricket was played in one of those la
>>64836914
League on dead spoort watch
sauce: http://www.SmH.com.au/sport/cricket/big-bash-league-jumps-into-top-10-of-most-attended-sports-leagues-in-the-world-20160110-gm2w8z.html
>handsome and popular AFL at number 5 ahead of pakipaddle
>you now remember that rugby league is a "sport"
They literally are getting cucked by a meme cricket league lol.
>>64836959
>anime reaction image
Get the fuck out weeb
>>64836949
AFL confirmed patrician choice in Australian sports, nrlel is for lebo poofters and old people
Ive posted this before - the big bash is a joke. It goes for 6 weeks and the players dont care whether they win or lose as long as they take home a paycheck. Its more of a circus than a sport
IT'S NOT FAIR!!!
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE POPULAR IN AUSTRALIA!!!
>>64836959
Don't forget meme AFL
>>64836970
You are a seething newcunt, holy fuck.
>that massive gap from NFL to Bundesliga
>2 of top 3 are gridiron football
>MLB "dying"
also based Australian Football in top 5
props to you guys
>>64837008
Please watch our sport
>>64837008
BIG
>>64837008
we have many sports which you would enjoy watching
>>64837008
Please watch our sport
both rugbys on pooicide watch
>>64837273
> Both leagues played between March and Sept are BTFO because they weren't in the top 10 leagues in December
>>64837295
I think you should read the article, retard.
thugby on literal pooicide watch
brah I think I'm with the NFL the ref-balling has just gone too far.
thinking about getting Cricket what league and team should I follow.
>>64837322
Please watch our sport.
Support the Australian national team in international cricket in all formats.
Support New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield.
Support Sydney Sixers in Big Based League.
I hope to see you soon in /cric/, my American amigo :)
>>64837346
based goosey
How does a tiny country like Australia support so many sports leagues?
As far as I know you have leagues for:
Aussie rules
Rugby league
Cricket
Rugby Union
Soccer
Basketball
Netball
?
>>64837672
We also have a professional baseball league.
>>64837672
please watch our sports
>>64837672
V8's
>inb4
>car driving
> a sport
>>64837672
Watch our sport, big strong white American.
a bunch of cricketing hasbeens smashing the ball around I fucking love this shit
>>64837322
super rugby or the NRL might also be your thing
>>64837672
It's because gambling is a national pastime in Australia
>mfw channel 7 trying to cash in on bigbash with bigbash tennis
>mfw it was fucking garbage
>>64837799
That was called "Fast Four" and was 9, not 7.
>>64837799
>Channel 9 trying to cash in on the BBL by having KP on commentary tomorrow
kek, the other stations are on suicide watch, especially 9 I rekon who will be literally fuming that their "Summer of Cricket" was complete dogshit aside from 3 days against NZ.
Channel 10 pay like 5% of the amount for the BBL that 9 do for international cricket but the BBL will be making Channel 10 far more money than "international" ""cricket"" is atm
>>64837807
nah it was on 7 tonight or last night depending on where you live
>>64837672
Aussie Rules
Cricket
Netball
fixed that list for you my friend :^)
>>64836981
Australians haven't been interested in Greeks or Greek culture since 2001, at the latest.
>>64837322
Green Melbourne in Big Bash
Based Melbourne carrying the rest of Australia once again
>>64836914
Why can't Australia win in England lad?
MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI
If only the alleged "sports" popularly known as rugby didn't exist. Handsomely elite and muscular Australian Rules Football would be #2.
>60
Aussies literally seething until at least 2017.
KEK.
>>64846102
I went to an Aussie Rules game at the MCG once. Was one of the most incredible things i've ever seen.
>>64847205
>MCG
>>64837691
"professional"
They're paid $40k/year and they couldn't make the third cut for a MLB team.
the real laughing stock is the NRL
>>64846119
>One bad innings is somehow worse than 2 (TWO) 5-0 series in the last 10 years
I don't blame you for holding into any sort of victory though familia, you need it
>>64853338
If they get paid anything, they are professional.
So Australia has a professional baseball league.
I love to go see some great T20 at the Gabba. The Brisbane Heat are really my favorite team. Of course I am not very happy with our current ladder position. As a Big Strong American, T20 cricket really is more attractive to my sensibilities because I am so used to short, limited games like in baseball. Please watch our sport, Big Strong American.
More people watch amateur "students" play advertise ball than the English ""Premier"" League.
How far have the might fallen?
>implying in-person attendance matters
DLF MAXIMUM
>>64837672
Australia isn't a "tiny" country though.
>>64854679
>Watching skinny men jog for 90 minutes while periodically diving into the grass
topkek
>>64854559
I've seen them play.
I could make one of those teams desu. They're just some IBL that washed up on Australia somehow.
>>64859995
I wasn't commenting on the quality, just stating the fact that the ABL is technically a professional baseball league.
The USA also has professional leagues for sports that are not popular there.
>>64860414
No we don't!!!
>>64860651
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Rugby_League
>>64860725
BUNDES STRONK
>>64860414
Apparently all the NBL (National Basketball League) players are just Americans who couldn't make it big there