Crucket

According to independent research, interest in cricket in New Zealand has surged. There are now more people playing cricket in NZ – 104,000 registered players – and the last season saw record attendances at international matches and television viewerage.

This is rather surprising to me considering we had our worst season in terms of performances for years – the first time we haven’t won at least one home test since 95/96. There must have been something happening this summer that turned the public on. NZCricket reckons it was the two colourful touring teams. I note though that another notable event of the 08/09 season was the birth of Crucket (b. 6 Dec. 08).