Top 5 cricket fan theories

3) Runs sell, wickets don’t

Fans would pay more to see Chris Gayle smash the ball around the park than good bowling

In accordance to the fans, people want entertainment and runs are what it lies in. Spectators shell out money to see fireworks unfold at cricket grounds. They want run fests and not low scoring games.

Today’s cricket will seldom see a wondrous spell of bowling getting the same accolades alike a blistering innings from the willow. One can’t blame the cricket associations and the curators for dishing out graveyards for bowlers for the simple reason that it’s a source of maximizing the money.

If we ask an average fan about what they would want to see between peppering of the boundary hoardings and prodigious seam and swing, the answer will inevitably be the former one.

Test cricket has been presumed to lose its sheen not because the format has gone backwards. It’s for the emergence of T20 cricket and the rise of unorthodoxy that Test cricket is losing popularity. Desperate measures of Day & Night Test cricket seems to be the only way out.