Alex Bowden from King Cricket thinks the main reason for poor Test match crowds is that tickets are too expensive. Not everybody agreed with him in the comments, but Bowden seems convinced prices are too high and has asked his readers to help him gauge the cost of a day at the cricket.

If you go to a match this year, try and keep a rough tally and put it in the comments of this post giving the following information. We’ll make this page accessible from the sidebar when it’s slipped down the page a bit.

Ground: Lord’s, Old Trafford, Edgbaston etc
Match type: Test match, international Twenty20, County Championship etc
Travel: Cost per person
Ticket: Cost per person
Food: Anything you spent at the ground
Drink: What you’re willing to admit you spent at the ground
Miscellaneous: Anything else you may have bought during the day
Total: Cost per person

I am not sure if Bowden has concrete plans on what he wants to do with the information he gathers.

He doesn’t strike me as someone to use his right to petition or something like that, but his is one the best known blogs out there (he also regularly writes for wisdencricketer.com and cricinfo.com) and does seem a bit more serious in his writing these days, so who knows what this might lead to?

But first of all, he needs your input. So if you have been to a game recently – or planning to see one soon – remember to help him out.