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Armaan said:
Try embrace it mate, you'll enjoy it loads :)
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I can't take to it. I played an awful lot of cricket when I was younger and took my coaching qualifications too. I am a cricketing snob. 20:20 rewards sloggers and bang average medium pacers who do little with the ball.
 
jimharri said:
They seem to have a lot of issues with the people running cricket back home. And Mark Nicholas and Shane Warne copping for some flak as well.
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Yup... Sammy said they did not have Jersey when they arrived in India.. They had 0 support from board
 
Crazy game. England went from 1/10 to 90/1 in 3 balls!!
Great entertainment
Congratulations to the West Indies
 
Manchester_lalala said:
The t20 cricket World Cup final, smarty pants. I can put my life on it being proper cricket, unless I was watching a different game to you.
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It's a bastardised form of cricket. It's not proper cricket if you can win a game without bowling a team out. It's a game designed to entertain the masses who have a low attention span and require constant stimulation.
 
Manc in London said:
It's a bastardised form of cricket. It's not proper cricket if you can win a game without bowling a team out. It's a game designed to entertain the masses who have a low attention span and require constant stimulation.
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I agree totally with your sentiment mate, we are a dying breed however, I love test cricket, cricket in its purest form, the clue is in the title, a true test of ability. We are fighting against the tide though, T20 is here to stay and is getting more popular, it seems only England and Australia have any time for test cricket these days. I would hope 50 over cricket will be the one to go if a format has to be dropped but I fear for the future of anything but crash bang wallop cricket.
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
I agree totally with your sentiment mate, we are a dying breed however, I love test cricket, cricket in its purest form, the clue is in the title, a true test of ability. We are fighting against the tide though, T20 is here to stay and is getting more popular, it seems only England and Australia have any time for test cricket these days. I would hope 50 over cricket will be the one to go if a format has to be dropped but I fear for the future of anything but crash bang wallop cricket.
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Test cricket is crippled by it's lack of a real competition. Instead you just have the rankings, but does anyone really know how that's worked out, especially with different teams playing different amounts of games? There is only really the Ashes as a proper contest where you seem to be playing for something significant. They really need to figure out some kind of competitive structure for test cricket if they want it to survive, as no other sport that I can think of goes by the random "everyone just play as many games as you want and them some guy with a calculator tells you who is the best in the world" style of competition.
 
BigOscar said:
Test cricket is crippled by it's lack of a real competition. Instead you just have the rankings, but does anyone really know how that's worked out, especially with different teams playing different amounts of games? There is only really the Ashes as a proper contest where you seem to be playing for something significant. They really need to figure out some kind of competitive structure for test cricket if they want it to survive, as no other sport that I can think of goes by the random "everyone just play as many games as you want and them some guy with a calculator tells you who is the best in the world" style of competition.
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I agree, the ICC have been trying to sort out some sort of competition for it for years now, but they cant seem to get an agreement. As India has so much power in the game now, and they are only interested in T20, then it seems a none starter. A real shame
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
I agree totally with your sentiment mate, we are a dying breed however, I love test cricket, cricket in its purest form, the clue is in the title, a true test of ability. We are fighting against the tide though, T20 is here to stay and is getting more popular, it seems only England and Australia have any time for test cricket these days. I would hope 50 over cricket will be the one to go if a format has to be dropped but I fear for the future of anything but crash bang wallop cricket.
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Problem starts with ICC, all they care about is money and not the state of cricket, and with minimal test cricket we cant expect new generation to develop love for it
 
Problem is you want more countries playing cricket.. The t20 being 3 hour game is best bet for cricket to increase its footprint... I cannot see test cricket helping to globalise the game
 
neel said:
Problem is you want more countries playing cricket.. The t20 being 3 hour game is best bet for cricket to increase its footprint... I cannot see test cricket helping to globalise the game
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That is a poor excuse for letting the oldest form of the game die. Its about money, nothing else, if the ICC can get China and USA interested they dont care about anything else, they are bastardising the sport to chase the money.
 
Manc in London said:
It's a bastardised form of cricket. It's not proper cricket if you can win a game without bowling a team out. It's a game designed to entertain the masses who have a low attention span and require constant stimulation.
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I don't mind test cricket, but it can get boring. A near enough empty stadium with no astmosphere, five day test match which ends in a draw, shite. T20 you know what your going to get majority of the time. It is proper cricket to me, im pretty sure twenty overs will be the most played throughout England.
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
I agree totally with your sentiment mate, we are a dying breed however, I love test cricket, cricket in its purest form, the clue is in the title, a true test of ability. We are fighting against the tide though, T20 is here to stay and is getting more popular, it seems only England and Australia have any time for test cricket these days. I would hope 50 over cricket will be the one to go if a format has to be dropped but I fear for the future of anything but crash bang wallop cricket.
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Glad to hear I am not the only one. Agree with everything you say.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
I don't mind test cricket, but it can get boring. A near enough empty stadium with no astmosphere, five day test match which ends in a draw, shite. T20 you know what your going to get majority of the time. It is proper cricket to me, im pretty sure twenty overs will be the most played throughout England.
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If you play cricket midweek it is and always has been T20 cricket, its all that has ever been played, but on weekends when most people play, it is no way near the most played.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
I don't mind test cricket, but it can get boring. A near enough empty stadium with no astmosphere, five day test match which ends in a draw, shite. T20 you know what your going to get majority of the time. It is proper cricket to me, im pretty sure twenty overs will be the most played throughout England.
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Test cricket is played in empty stadiums? Not in England and Australia they are not. Have you tried getting tickets for a test match? 20:20 games, bar IPL and England are hardly sell outs.

The main reason for decline in test cricket audiences in India is because they are not that good anymore.

I cannot remember the figures but the majority of test matches do not end in a draw, and often finish within 4 days.
 
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