In England and Australia you can earn well at the top of the red ball game, but it is not so true elsewhere. All the Windies batters disappear at the first sniff of a rupee.
They tried the pink ball, but nothing seems to have come of it.
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They tried the pink ball, but nothing seems to have come of it.
MillionMilesAway
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In England and Australia you can earn well at the top of the red ball game, but it is not so true elsewhere. All the Windies batters disappear at the first sniff of a rupee.
They tried the pink ball, but nothing seems to have come of it.
I think that some of this is chicken and egg - some countries make money from tests and want more tests against the others who do the same. Other countries can't build the position any more.
I don't think the Windies can guarantee making a decent living playing tests so they have to gravitate to white ball.
As far as I can tell, in 2024, they have 9 tests (2 in Australia in Jan, 3 here, 2 home vs SA immediately, 2 in Bangladesh in Nov).
In the year, excluding the world cup, they have 9 ODIs and 17 T20.
Given that fragmented test schedule, it's hardly a surprise that players are going to things where they can have a 4-6 week contract.
By comparison, England have 17 tests, 8 ODIs and 11 T20s.
(obviously 1 calendar year may be distorted a bit).
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Just watched the highlights of the friendly against AC Milan, and it occurs to me that the striker leaning back as he takes his shot and sending it sailing over the bar is football's answer to the batsman fishing at a ball that's well wide without moving his feet. In both cases — just moronic. Anybody else see it like that?
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Anyone with a ticket for monday will be sweating now. A Windies collapse tomorrow wouldn't be a total surprise.
They get fully reimbursed, surely?
jimharri
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I'm sure they will. I was on about them getting to see some cricket.They get fully reimbursed, surely?
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Looking gorgeous at Blackpool this morning for the Metro Cup vs Kent. Hoping for an improvement on the midweek offering, certainly a bit more control with the ball.
Mr & Mrs. Ramsbottom say hello.Looking gorgeous at Blackpool this morning
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I would love to see how many crickets are really in it for the love of the sport and not the money, Split the white ball cricket from the Red ball cricket and have two governing bodies, So you can only play one or the other. My bet is, 90% would pick white-ball cricket for the money,
Test Cricket should be the pinnacle of the sport, The Glory and Honour of being picked to play for your country
County Cricket, Test Cricket, and ODI Cricket are sports, 20/20, and IPL and the Hundred are for entertainment.
It's a question of ever shortening attention spans, clicks for instant gratification, @ancoats — in short, they are a reflection of the way society has changed. In football, I will never, ever accept that the final of a major competition like the FA Cup, let alone a World Cup, should be decided by a penalty shootout. I just do not accept it. But people seem to lap it up. It's great on the telly, you get close-ups of people's faces in the crowd, you get the mask of grief on a player's face when he's just missed, etc., etc., etc. In short — showbiz. By the same token, I intensely dislike the Super Over, and would have much preferred England to have won the WC some other way.
Cricket in its classic form is an almost unique sport. You take five days out of your life, in the test form, to follow the ebb and flow of a single match. Even the Tour de France, which has to be the most gruelling endurance sport that humans have devised for themselves (I don't include high-altitude mountaineering or polar exploration in that judgment, of course) is in fact a series of one-day matches, or less, with a cumulative effect. But a single match that takes place over the best part of a week??! The rest of the world, and especially the Yanks, simply don't understand it.
About twenty years ago, I wrote a short piece on cricket to try to explain the fascination of it to French colleagues. We were all due to teach a piece on the Ashes by the excellent David Runciman, originally published in the London Review of Books, which I'd chosen for this particular class (it was in the wake of the astounding 2005 series). I hesitate to post it on here, because there's a bunch of people on this thread who know a whole lot more about cricket than I do (and there are one or two inaccuracies in it, in fact).
jimharri
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Hodge is the key wicket now. Get him out quickly, and there's every chance that this could (repeat, "could") be over this evening.