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danieldwilliam) wrote2024-07-01 11:02 am
danieldwilliam) wrote2024-07-01 11:02 am
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On the Intersection of Indian Demographics and Test Cricket - Part 1
So India have won the Cricket T20 World Cup.
There followed some / many comments on the socials (from Indians judging by user names) that there were a lot of excitable but ignorant young Indian cricket fans who were too young to properly appreciate that the IPL was not the same as cricket and that the IPL had a very clear idea in mind of what appeals to young Indian cricket fans and prepared their wickets accordingly and that was different from the nuances of what other people appreciated in different formats or different parts of the world.
Which in some ways is just older people being older people and younger people being younger people with a kernel of truth about the IPL.
But it prompted me to look at the demographics of India. The population pyramid looks like a bishop's mitre.
Media age is 29. (China's 38, UK is 41.) 25% of the population are between 0-14 years old. Which is a young country.
I'm not surprised they don't yet appreciate the joy of Test Cricket.
There followed some / many comments on the socials (from Indians judging by user names) that there were a lot of excitable but ignorant young Indian cricket fans who were too young to properly appreciate that the IPL was not the same as cricket and that the IPL had a very clear idea in mind of what appeals to young Indian cricket fans and prepared their wickets accordingly and that was different from the nuances of what other people appreciated in different formats or different parts of the world.
Which in some ways is just older people being older people and younger people being younger people with a kernel of truth about the IPL.
But it prompted me to look at the demographics of India. The population pyramid looks like a bishop's mitre.
Media age is 29. (China's 38, UK is 41.) 25% of the population are between 0-14 years old. Which is a young country.
I'm not surprised they don't yet appreciate the joy of Test Cricket.