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The Cricket Thread

kb 1984 said:
It won't be long before the Aussies blame the loss on the wicket. Yes tomorrow was sold out some very upset punters
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The Barmy Army will have 3 days to immerse themselves in Victorian culture like Flemington racecourse, Dame Edna's mansion, birth and death places of Ned Kelly, along with a Macdonalds with beetroot.
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
You can't help think it will be used to explaining away and aid the demise of test cricket £££££££
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When England tour it helps tourism in many test playing nations, particularly in West Indies where Englands followers outnumber locals in many games. My son and son in law have worked in India and noticed crowd are bigger when the home team are batting as locals want to see their star batsmen racking up big scores.
We're lucky in England that we have big communities of followers from the sub continent and West Indies to create a good atmosphere although West Indies following has declined, possibly due to strength of their teams and ticket prices.
I think the authorities should be prepared to guarantee a certain amount of overs in a day by use of floodlights, it may not be ideal but teams should not be able to short change customers by bowling slowly.
I would like to see just one form of ODI and I suppose that would be the awful T20 version, I think T20 is loaded in favour of batsmen.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
I think the authorities should be prepared to guarantee a certain amount of overs in a day by use of floodlights, it may not be ideal but teams should not be able to short change customers by bowling slowly.
I would like to see just one form of ODI and I suppose that would be the awful T20 version, I think T20 is loaded in favour of batsmen.
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Problem is, you can't play night cricket with a red ball.

Nobody has made an even half-decent pink ball for anything resembling serious cricket yet. Even Dukes haven't managed it, so the likes of Kookaburra don't stand a chance.

So you get more cricket, but it's brick. Given the way modern cricket is played, you'd be hard pressed to show that customers get less entertainment in their 70 overs than they used to in 90 overs.
 
scaramanga said:
Problem is, you can't play night cricket with a red ball.

Nobody has made an even half-decent pink ball for anything resembling serious cricket yet. Even Dukes haven't managed it, so the likes of Kookaburra don't stand a chance.

So you get more cricket, but it's brick. Given the way modern cricket is played, you'd be hard pressed to show that customers get less entertainment in their 70 overs than they used to in 90 overs.
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But its cheating just like the "game management" brick the idiots who listen to pundits on football lap up. I'm not that concerned with the standard of the ball as there is little standardisation of pitches around the world, that's something teams have to adapt to.
 
scaramanga said:
Problem is, you can't play night cricket with a red ball.

Nobody has made an even half-decent pink ball for anything resembling serious cricket yet. Even Dukes haven't managed it, so the likes of Kookaburra don't stand a chance.

So you get more cricket, but it's brick. Given the way modern cricket is played, you'd be hard pressed to show that customers get less entertainment in their 70 overs than they used to in 90 overs.
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Not sure why the day can't start earlier.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
But its cheating just like the "game management" brick the idiots who listen to pundits on football lap up. I'm not that concerned with the standard of the ball as there is little standardisation of pitches around the world, that's something teams have to adapt to.
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The lack of standardisation of pitches is precisely why ball quality has to be higher.

Pink balls don't last on pitches like those in Australia, the sport just isn't designed for that kind of environment.
 
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