Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Cricket Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Cricket in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Cricket has an estimated audience of 1,492,516 people in South Africa.

#6among Sport in South Africa
#318among Topic in South Africa
#35in Sports

Cricket has an estimated audience of 1,492,516 people in South Africa. 37.5% are female, 62.5% are male, average age 38.3. Top brand affinities: SA20, South Africa national cricket team, Zimbabwe national cricket team, Mainz, Harare.

Top brand affinities include SA20, South Africa national cricket team, Zimbabwe national cricket team, with strongest over-indexing on SA20 (1.85× the country average).

Demographically, the Cricket audience skews more male with an average age of 38.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Social Media Usage.

The typical Cricket fan in South Africa is more male, around 38.3 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for SA20.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Sport

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Cricket profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.5M
in South Africa
Gender
37.5%
62.5% male
Age
38.3
average years
Country rank
#461
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+17%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Cricket fans

37.5% are female, 62.5% are male, average age 38.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

37.5%
Female
62.5%
Male
Demographic split for Cricket audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female37.5%
Male62.5%
Average age38.3
Estimated audience size1,492,516
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 38.3
average years
Age distribution of the Cricket audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1921%
20-2923%
30-3919%
40-4914%
50+22%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.3%

of the worldwide Cricket audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Cricket
CountryShare
India27.1%
United States11.3%
United Kingdom9.0%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Cricket audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Cricket audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Zimbabwe national cricket teamSports3.39×
02Jah PrayzahMusic & Radio2.98×
03NewsDay-ZimbabweNews2.73×
04Daily PakistanNews2.36×
05MainzTravel & Leisure2.31×
06Cricket clothing and equipmentSports2.19×
07South Africa national cricket teamSports2.16×
08Shona languagePolitics & Society2.15×
09Pakistan national cricket teamSports2.11×
10WicketSports2.06×
11DiasporaPolitics & Society1.90×
12ICC - International Cricket CouncilSports1.89×
13West Indies cricket teamSports1.88×
14SA20Sports1.85×
15HarareTravel & Leisure1.80×
16Bob DylanMusic & Radio1.79×
17AB de VilliersSports1.74×
18England cricket teamSports1.69×
19ZambeziTravel & Leisure1.58×
20Superleague GreeceSports1.53×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Cricket audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Cricket audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.84×
Social Media UsageJOY0.69×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.63×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Cricket audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.35×
TravellingTHRILL0.41×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.63×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Cricket. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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