Ten years ago, almost to the very day/week, Australia’s Big Bash League was born – a response to the astonishing popularity of the radical short-form format in England, where sell-out crowds flocked to see this new spectacle. If truth be told, Australia was slow to the T20 party. The BBL was unveiled in 2011 by Cricket Australia – eight years after England introduced the crash-bang-wallop format to the world, and four years after an experimental T20 game in Brisbane between Queensland and New South Wales drew an enormous crowd.
Nice work. Spot on with the watching demographic.