Cricket in the United Kingdom (UK) - Statistics & Facts
Published by David Lange, Jul 12, 2019
Cricket is a sport with eleven players on each side, in which the objective is for one side to score more runs than the other side. There are many forms of the game, played over as many as five days, but each form of the game follows similar rules.
One team will start out as the fielding team, putting eleven players on the field in a configuration largely of their choosing. Two players from the opposing team, known as batsmen, will stand at opposite ends of the pitch in the center of the field, while a player from the fielding team will bowl the ball towards the batsman. The batsman will then attempt to strike the ball in a manner that allows them to score runs, either by hitting the ball towards the boundary of the field, or far enough away from the fielders that the batsmen have time to run between each end of the pitch, thus scoring runs.
Batsmen are dismissed in a number of ways, including if the ball topples the top of the stumps behind them, or if the ball comes off the bat and is caught by a member of the fielding team before the ball hits the ground. When every player from the batting team has had a turn at bat, then the teams will swap roles, and the fielding team will become the batting team, and attempt to exceed the run total of the opposing team.
The number of people playing cricket in England has decreased in recent years, from approximately 428,000 in 2009 to roughly 278,600 in 2016. Of children aged between 11 and 15 years, close to 19 percent stated having played in the past month in 2016, and around half of cricket participants were members of a club. In Wales, cricket participation appears to be twice as high among males, compared to females.
The sport of cricket is governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in England and Wales, by Cricket Scotland in Scotland and by the Irish Cricket Union in Northern Ireland. From 2013 to 2017, Sport England invested a total of roughly 20 million British pounds into the ECB, of which the majority was funded into improving cricket participation. In 2017 the ECB had a turnover of approximately 119 million million British pounds, Cricket Scotland had a turnover of roughly 2.3 million British pounds and the Irish Cricket Union generated an income of close to 6 million euros.
Cricket appears to be the sport with the largest proportion of core fans aged above 55 years in the United Kingdom (UK), with approximately 35 percent of cricket fans falling into that age group. The most interesting cricket formats for fans are test matches, one day internationals and T20 internationals, followed by county T20, county one-day and county four day matches. When it comes to format change, roughly 43 percent of fans would be interested in a move to a 2 division Test "league" and 36 percent would be interested in a move to Test matches 4 days only.
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Cricket Scotland
Number of people who played cricket in Scotland in 2014
Share of male secondary school students who played cricket in 2018
Share of cricket players that are club members in England
Profit/loss of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) 2012 to 2019
Operating profit for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) from 2012 to 2019
Turnover of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) 2012-2019
Expenditure of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) 2010-2019
Salary & wage expenditure of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) from 2014 to 2019
Number of employees at England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) 2019
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Scotland: turnover of Cricket Scotland from 2012 to 2018
Scotland: administrative costs of Cricket Scotland from 2012 to 2018
Scotland: gross profit of Cricket Scotland from 2012 to 2018
Ireland: income of Cricket Ireland from 2014 to 2018
Ireland: expenses of Cricket Ireland from 2014 to 2018, by type
Ireland: Sport Ireland high performance sport investments in Cricket Ireland 2013-19
Cricket participation England 2016-2019
Children participating in cricket in England 2010-2018
Wales: pupils's participation in cricket 2018, by gender
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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
Expenditure of the ECB in 2017
142,4m GBP
Turnover of the ECB in 2019
172.32m GBP
Expenditure on wages and salaries of the ECB in 2019
25.8m GBP
Number of Facebook followers as of April 2016
ECB: number of followers on selected social networks in the UK as of April 2016
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Turnover of Cricket Scotland in 2018
2.33m GBP
Administrative expenses of Cricket Scotland in 2018
379.9k GBP
Number of registered coaches in 2014
Scotland: number of coaches in cricket from 2008 to 2014, by type
Number of registered umpires in 2014
Scotland: number of umpires for cricket from 2008 to 2014, by type
Income of Cricket Ireland in 2018
9.7 m EUR
Administrative expenditures of Cricket Ireland in 2018
3.65m EUR
Average number of employees in administration
Ireland: average number of employees of Cricket Ireland from 2014 to 2015, by type
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Sport Associations in the United Kingdom (UK)
Sport club memberships in the United Kingdom (UK)
Sport in Scotland (UK)
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