On Nine, cricket ratings continue to fall as a somewhat boring season continues. With the Aussies winning every match this season so far, it’s just a little too one sided.
What ever happened to the old days when we had three teams compete in a tri-series one day series over summer? Now, it seems that cricket no longer makes sense with 5 matches against Pakistan - which Australia won all of, then another five against the West Indies - looks like we will win those as well, with a random 20/20 thrown in here and there.
There just seems to be no order to it, and both the live audiences at the games and TV ratings are in steep decline. Even the test series this season were two separate three game series instead of one of five tests.
The other problem Nine has with ratings as a result of cricket coverage, is that the show after the cricket - last night the movie Lethal Weapon 4 - starts when the cricket finishes as opposed to its advertised time. In the case of last night, it was well over an hour early, meaning anyone who planned to watch the movie or record it to watch later would have been stuffed if they did not know how the cricket had gone.
Surely Nine would have been better off filling the one hour with a couple of episodes of Two and a Half Men or a CSI repeat? Anything would be better than such a major divergence to the program.
