However, it has become a summertime ritual for British cricket fans to see the men’s and women’s champions standing side by side on the Lord’s outfield with massive trophies raised in the air while fireworks burst all around them.
There is uncertainty over the tournament’s future, though, as the fourth season is coming to a conclusion and stakes in all eight teams are scheduled to be auctioned this autumn.
There is no doubt that The Hundred will continue.
540,000 tickets were sold for this year’s tournament, according to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), bringing the total across the first four years to almost two million.
Of those, over a million people watched women’s matches, and at seven of the eight venues utilized for The Hundred in 2024, attendance for women’s matches reached record levels.
Even while opinions about the tournament are still divided, the fact that families purchased 41% of the tickets this year and newcomers made up 30% implies that the competition has succeeded in its goal of introducing people to cricket.
Even still, fewer people watch TV than in years past. That might be expected, though, given that they are competing against the Olympics for two weeks in the middle of the competition.
