The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Sports Bar => Topic started by: Snoopy on May 10, 2011, 06:36:56 AM
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Anyone else been following this? I have it on in the background most afternoons/evenings.
Still undecided if I really like this form of cricket rubschin:
Deffo prefer Test Match format.
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Shrugs:
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I'll put you down as "Undecided" then lol:
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I prefer to watch the test matches. However, like most sports, they need to generate some income in order to keep up with the others.
I do now see people in the pub watching the shorter form who would have never stayed to watch the longer format. It seems to be attracting a new following.
The game needs to move on I guess. I also think the game has benefitted from the new slogging approach, it was not that many years ago that in a limited over match that the commentators would start to 'worry' that the required run rate was "nearly a run per ball" eeek: Today that does not seem to trouble the batting side too much.
Players seem to be specialising in the different codes. I think we now have three different England captains.
More money should attract more players and hopefully the standard of cricket in general should improve.
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Totally agree!
My worry, if I have one, is that 20/20 will take over and put paid to those lazy days, sitting outside a sun-soaked pavilion, pint of bitter in hand, looking forward to a traditional lunch, bottle of red and a snooze in the same chair in the afternoon before waking up to see the after tea session.
I notice that very few of the English team (one I believe) are out there this year following on from that ridiculously long tour "down under" and with an equally difficult summer ahead. All bought about, I suspect, because the TCCB were annoyed that the Injuns got in first with their IPL so they agreed to a 7 month long tour full of meaningless "day" matches and a burst of 20/20 when our players were all knackered.
Yes indeed 3 Captains, one for each "variety" of the game. Not ideal but I can see why Strauss feels it's time to take a step back ~ he doesn't have that many years left at the top of his game.
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PS: This is what "they" have committed to over 2011/2012. Unbelievable grab for money.
2011
January - England in Australia
February-April - ICC Cricket World Cup (Asia)
May-July - Sri Lanka in England (3 Tests, 5 ODIs, 1 T20)
July-September - India in England (4 Tests, 5 ODIs, 1 T20)
October - England in India (5 ODIs, 1 T20)
2012
January-February - England in Pakistan (3 Tests, 5 ODIs)
March - England in Sri Lanka (2 Tests, 3 ODIs)
May - West Indies in England (3 Tests, 3 ODIs, 1 T20
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PPS ~ we'll never see the likes of these real sportsmen again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_cricket_and_football_players#Double_internationals
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Wasn't Nick talking about IPL yesterday........ rubschin:
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Nick, like BM, would not know a cricket bat if it bit him on the arse.
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Nick, like BM, would not know a cricket bat if it bit him on the arse.
Oh it was VPL .......... redface:
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Nick, like BM, would not know a cricket bat if it bit him on the arse.
Oh it was VPL .......... redface:
Now that they would both recognise lol: