******Cricket Thread******

[waspish]

In the late 19th and early 20th century, cricket was big in the US, mainly due to immigration from Britain. USA applied for test status, but MCC turned them down declaring test matches were for the British Empire only. Hence the growth then of baseball.

Test cricket wouldn’t take of over there anyway! If they just had a 20/20 league and 20/20 international team it could work a 3/4 hour game is shorter than some Baseball and nfl games..

 

[KS55]

Test cricket wouldn’t take of over there anyway! If they just had a 20/20 league and 20/20 international team it could work a 3/4 hour game is shorter than some Baseball and nfl games..

I think Americans would love white ball cricket but there is huge competition for attention in US sports.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Firstly congratulations to all, it's a great achievement and a testament to the level England have achieved in white ball cricket but as a Pakistani fan, its devastating to suffer few cricket heartbreaks in a row because cricket means the world to us, like football means to english but we have a young talented team who provides flair and entertainment in their own unique way and hopefully will go one step further next time

 

[Bluewonder]

Firstly congratulations to all, it's a great achievement and a testament to the level England have achieved in white ball cricket but as a Pakistani fan, its devastating to suffer few cricket heartbreaks in a row because cricket means the world to us, like football means to english but we have a young talented team who provides flair and entertainment in their own unique way and hopefully will go one step further next time

Well said, and congrats on a great tournament after a poor start.

It was wonderful seeing England back in Pakistan last month. Long may it continue.

 

[Slipper One]

Thank goodness they did. Imagine what the sport might have been had they been on the decision making committees?!

Well, we can start by making those three sticks a bit bigger and that paddle thing much wider.

That's a long way to hit a six, so the boundary can be closer and if the outfielder can catch the ball anywhere, even in the stands or the car park before it hits the ground, then that's also out.

If the outfielder catches the ball after only one bounce, then that would be extra points for the catching side.

All catchers wear big cupped gloves on both hands.

If the batter hasn't run after three consecutive bowls to him, then he HAS to run regardless.

Underarm or overarm bowling is permitted.

The catching positions need considerably dumbing down. All these names like 'fine leg', 'midwicket', 'square leg' are just too confusing, so change them all to numbers. Position 1, 2, 3 etc and then you could modify them. For example, 3 could also have additional options of Deep 3 or Close 3 for instance, or split the outfield into quadrants with numerical catching points in Quadrant 1, 2, 3 and 4. "Jones is the catcher at Q1-3" and then it would be possible to spend the next five minutes rattling off all the statistics for catching at that particular position. That would make it so much more interesting.

A 3 minute advertising break every 10 minutes would be a necessity.

The final is always played as a best of seven games.

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Just a few simple ideas to improve the game.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Well said, and congrats on a great tournament after a poor start.

It was wonderful seeing England back in Pakistan last month. Long may it continue.

Yes it was great to have them here, full houses in all 7 games but I'm more of an old school, i prefer test over bilateral t20s so personally i am really looking forward to the test series with eng which is starting next month i believe and i only enjoy tournament T20 cricket and may be one icc tournament an year is a way to go as it allows associate nations get the limelight and tournament cricket is far more interesting than bilaterals

 

[waspish]

Oh more cricket forgot about these games! Just looking at our score doesn’t like enough and short by at least 40/50!

We know the Aussies now will want to make a point after England are the best one day team ever lived! A wicket or two now will change the feeling but the team..

 

[andyhinch]

Oh more cricket forgot about these games! Just looking at our score doesn’t like enough and short by at least 40/50!

We know the Aussies now will want to make a point after England are the best one day team ever lived! A wicket or two now will change the feeling but the team..

Was up early so watched it from the start, only one winner here, were just no good at white ball cricket ;-)

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Our bowling attack looks weak

 

[dadnlad]

Was up early so watched it from the start, only one winner here, were just no good at white ball cricket ;-)

Just turned on all that information at bottom of screen apart from what score their chasing well done