by Alviro Patterson » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:42 pm
Surprised this has got little publicity but 8,530 attended the final days play.
The combination of good ticket prices and Joe Root's attacking declaration encouraged the crowd to turn up in numbers. At 10.55am there was huge queues outside the cash turnstiles - from Len Hutton gates to the New Pavilion and East Stand entrance to a wall separating cricket ground and houses, it was almost shades of Day 5 against Pakistan in 2006 where Headingley was packed out.
56,005 attended the West Indies test match at Headingley across 5 days (80% of available capacity). IIRC that figure was higher than the South Africa test match in 2012. Quite impressive considering the West Indies test series was billed as a hard sell and the publicity that came with it.
Yorkshire might get stick for not filling Headingley for England matches in previous years, but it shows crowds will come to Headingley if either Yorkshire get decent test opposition, or at least low key opposition matches are played in peak summer and not in May when the weather is lousy.
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