The latest Border-Gavaskar Trophy was attended by a document variety of Indian followers, Cricket Australia has introduced.
The India versus Australia collection noticed a six-fold improve on ticket gross sales from folks dwelling in India from the earlier Border-Gavaskar Trophy hosted by Australia in 2018/19. Cricket Australia mentioned that over 6,000 travelling followers purchased tickets from India. This was along with those that bought tickets by way of family and friends in Australia.
A complete of 8,37,879 folks attended the collection, the fourth most for any Check collection in Australia and the very best for any non-Ashes collection. Practically 5 per cent of all ticket buying followers travelled for the matches from abroad, CA mentioned. Along with attendance information being set at venues throughout the nation, no less than eight periods averaged over two million viewers with 40 periods averaging greater than 1 million viewers.
India topped the checklist of worldwide ticket gross sales for this Australian cricket summer time, surpassing the UK and USA. The Boxing Day Check on the Melbourne Cricket Floor was an enormous hit amongst Indian followers, with over two-thirds of tickets offered to Indian travellers for this Check alone.
“We’re delighted that Australia has develop into a pre-eminent vacation spot for Indian cricket followers fuelled by the big curiosity within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy collection. The eagerness of Indian supporters helped improve the electrical ambiance at each floor throughout the summer time. We’re dedicated to deepening our relationship with cricket followers everywhere in the world and enhancing the fan expertise for each native and travelling followers alike. The growing variety of travelling Indian followers this summer time highlights Australian cricket’s more and more essential function in facilitating tourism and commerce outcomes for governments and companies throughout Australia,” mentioned Joel Morrison, Cricket Australia’s Government Normal Supervisor Occasions and Operations.
Indian cricket groups will return to Australia subsequent summer time, with the lads’s staff that includes in a 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is in October-November 2025, and the ladies’s staff in a seven match multi-format collection in February-March 2026.
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