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Post by Neshead on May 24, 2017 18:19:43 GMT
County cricket is just pointless. One man and his dog turn up to watch, and theres only one country in the world that still watches test cricket and thats us. Love the one day stuff though, the IPL is fucking crazy.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on May 24, 2017 18:24:47 GMT
Anyone else think cricket is shite? Try going to the test match at Headlingley this year. I guarantee you'll love it.
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 18:43:44 GMT
County cricket is just pointless. One man and his dog turn up to watch, and theres only one country in the world that still watches test cricket and thats us. Love the one day stuff though, the IPL is fucking crazy. County cricket is important because that's how you select England players. Without County cricket the England team wouldn't exist. Test match cricket is popular in England, South Africa, India and Australia. So "the big 4" if you like. 90,000 at the MCG watching a Boxing Day test match is always good to watch!
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Post by Lofty on May 24, 2017 18:46:15 GMT
Anyone else think cricket is shite? Try going to the test match at Headlingley this year. I guarantee you'll love it. I watched some of that stuff (20/20 or summat?!) where it's over quick so every fucker is going for 6's and that was OK. That test stuff that drags on for days and people are just milling about and the batsmen just go safe bores me to tears.
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Post by Neshead on May 24, 2017 19:01:36 GMT
County cricket is just pointless. One man and his dog turn up to watch, and theres only one country in the world that still watches test cricket and thats us. Love the one day stuff though, the IPL is fucking crazy. County cricket is important because that's how you select England players. Without County cricket the England team wouldn't exist. Test match cricket is popular in England, South Africa, India and Australia. So "the big 4" if you like. 90,000 at the MCG watching a Boxing Day test match is always good to watch! Sorry mate you're wrong, the one day game props up the test game. Look at the crowds in India and Australia especially when not playing us. The stadiums are pretty much empty, i know i've watched test cricket for years and seen it's demise. The ashes still get huge crowds but thats it. And i like watching test cricket, well the highlights, cos a full day is dull apart from being able to have a good sesh on the beer.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on May 24, 2017 19:06:27 GMT
County cricket is just pointless. One man and his dog turn up to watch, and theres only one country in the world that still watches test cricket and thats us. Love the one day stuff though, the IPL is fucking crazy. County cricket is important because that's how you select England players. Without County cricket the England team wouldn't exist. Test match cricket is popular in England, South Africa, India and Australia. So "the big 4" if you like. 90,000 at the MCG watching a Boxing Day test match is always good to watch! You're about right. West Indies games are sparsely populated. Pakistan don't play at home so it's impossible to say. Sri Lankans haven't got a rich history of test cricket and prefer the short game. Test cricket is still a good product and well worth watching. Long may it continue as a tight test match beats a one day game every time.
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Post by Hobhead on May 24, 2017 19:10:06 GMT
South Africa in the box seat right now but a couple of quick wickets will change everything.
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Post by Hobhead on May 24, 2017 19:30:56 GMT
Get de Villiers now and it's ours.
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 19:55:09 GMT
County cricket is important because that's how you select England players. Without County cricket the England team wouldn't exist. Test match cricket is popular in England, South Africa, India and Australia. So "the big 4" if you like. 90,000 at the MCG watching a Boxing Day test match is always good to watch! Sorry mate you're wrong, the one day game props up the test game. Look at the crowds in India and Australia especially when not playing us. The stadiums are pretty much empty, i know i've watched test cricket for years and seen it's demise. The ashes still get huge crowds but thats it. And i like watching test cricket, well the highlights, cos a full day is dull apart from being able to have a good sesh on the beer. Overall, yes but In this country I would put test match cricket ahead of one day cricket. Until recently we've always had a poor one day team whereas we've always been pretty decent at test match cricket and have always prioritised test match cricket. Whether it's dull or not is of course a matter of opinion. Personally, I prefer a test match over a one day game, although Im cricket mad so I watch both.
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Post by Hobhead on May 24, 2017 19:57:50 GMT
That's it. It was ours before but that's it now. Chalk one up in the win column.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on May 24, 2017 19:58:21 GMT
Sorry mate you're wrong, the one day game props up the test game. Look at the crowds in India and Australia especially when not playing us. The stadiums are pretty much empty, i know i've watched test cricket for years and seen it's demise. The ashes still get huge crowds but thats it. And i like watching test cricket, well the highlights, cos a full day is dull apart from being able to have a good sesh on the beer. Overall, yes but In this country I would put test match cricket ahead of one day cricket. Until recently we've always had a poor one day team whereas we've always been pretty decent at test match cricket and have always prioritised test match cricket. Whether it's dull or not is of course a matter of opinion. Personally, I prefer a test match over a one day game, although Im cricket mad so I watch both. The Ashes game at Edgbaston in 2005 was one of the greatest sporting contests ever. Beats any 20/20 game there has ever been
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 20:02:57 GMT
Overall, yes but In this country I would put test match cricket ahead of one day cricket. Until recently we've always had a poor one day team whereas we've always been pretty decent at test match cricket and have always prioritised test match cricket. Whether it's dull or not is of course a matter of opinion. Personally, I prefer a test match over a one day game, although Im cricket mad so I watch both. The Ashes game at Edgbaston in 2005 was one of the greatest sporting contests ever. Beats any 20/20 game there has ever been The 2005 ashes series was what got me into cricket. I was only about 8 or 9 at the time but I still remember it very well. I don't think we'll ever see a series as good as that one again.
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 20:04:47 GMT
Who remembers the Cardiif test match in 09 when we had Monty and Anderson batting at the end to save it?
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on May 24, 2017 20:10:48 GMT
Who remembers the Cardiif test match in 09 when we had Monty and Anderson batting at the end to save it? Yep. We should've been dead and buried in that one.
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Post by Neshead on May 24, 2017 20:13:43 GMT
Overall, yes but In this country I would put test match cricket ahead of one day cricket. Until recently we've always had a poor one day team whereas we've always been pretty decent at test match cricket and have always prioritised test match cricket. Whether it's dull or not is of course a matter of opinion. Personally, I prefer a test match over a one day game, although Im cricket mad so I watch both. The Ashes game at Edgbaston in 2005 was one of the greatest sporting contests ever. Beats any 20/20 game there has ever been Easy to remember that series. Name another memorable one, preferably not an Ashes series. I like test cricket, i was brought up on it but the demise of test cricket mirrors the changes in society. People want quick fix excitement these days, a game that can go 5 days and not have a positive result appeals less and less.
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Post by Attentive Onlooker on May 24, 2017 20:25:00 GMT
Start the car!!!
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 20:28:23 GMT
The Ashes game at Edgbaston in 2005 was one of the greatest sporting contests ever. Beats any 20/20 game there has ever been Easy to remember that series. Name another memorable one, preferably not an Ashes series. I like test cricket, i was brought up on it but the demise of test cricket mirrors the changes in society. People want quick fix excitement these days, a game that can go 5 days and not have a positive result appeals less and less. The Pakistan series last summer was an excellent series. Finished 2-2 with excellent cricket from both sides. The one where we beat India on their own patch a few years ago was also another good series. There are loads I can name. i'll admit that with the smaller nations it's not a popular form of the game but I think you underestimate how popular it is amongst the bigger nations (England, South Africa, India, Australia). Although I can understand the logic in using the attendances as a guideline, in this instance it is actually a very flawed method to use. What you've got to remember is that a test match goes on for 5 days and most folk can only afford to watch one of those days live. You could have an attendance of 20,000 at a one day game and only 10,000 at a test match, so on first thoughts it would seem that the one day game is twice as popular from looking at those figures. However if you have 10,000 people over the course of 5 days that's potentially 50,000 people who have turned up to watch a test match, which is more than the 20,000 that turned up for a single one day game. Can you see what I'm saying? In this country, it's always been Test match cricket first and I would say it's the more popular from the 2.
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Post by Neshead on May 24, 2017 20:40:37 GMT
Easy to remember that series. Name another memorable one, preferably not an Ashes series. I like test cricket, i was brought up on it but the demise of test cricket mirrors the changes in society. People want quick fix excitement these days, a game that can go 5 days and not have a positive result appeals less and less. The Pakistan series last summer was an excellent series. Finished 2-2 with excellent cricket from both sides. The one where we beat India on their own patch a few years ago was also another good series. There are loads I can name. i'll admit that with the smaller nations it's not a popular form of the game but I think you underestimate how popular it is amongst the bigger nations (England, South Africa, India, Australia). Although I can understand the logic in using the attendances as a guideline, in this instance it is actually a very flawed method to use. What you've got to remember is that a test match goes on for 5 days and most folk can only afford to watch one of those days live. You could have an attendance of 20,000 at a one day game and only 10,000 at a test match, so on first thoughts it would seem that the one day game is twice as popular from looking at those figures. However if you have 10,000 people over the course of 5 days that's potentially 50,000 people who have turned up to watch a test match, which is more than the 20,000 that turned up for a single one day game. Can you see what I'm saying? In this country, it's always been Test match cricket first and I would say it's the more popular from the 2. test match cricket is bigger than one day in this country due to our history in the game, but the there is no disputing the fact we are the only country that even remotely sells out test matches. The relevant cricket boards have tried everything to muster interest but even first day crowds in all cricket playing countries bar us are poor, apart from when we play Australia in Oz.Even the aussies when they aren't playing us struggle to sell tickets. I remember reading a couple of years ago when the big bash crowds in Oz were outselling the Australia international one day ticket sales quite easily. How you change it i don't know, but it just doesn't generate the income that one day cricket does.
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Post by Nice boy on May 24, 2017 21:06:31 GMT
The Pakistan series last summer was an excellent series. Finished 2-2 with excellent cricket from both sides. The one where we beat India on their own patch a few years ago was also another good series. There are loads I can name. i'll admit that with the smaller nations it's not a popular form of the game but I think you underestimate how popular it is amongst the bigger nations (England, South Africa, India, Australia). Although I can understand the logic in using the attendances as a guideline, in this instance it is actually a very flawed method to use. What you've got to remember is that a test match goes on for 5 days and most folk can only afford to watch one of those days live. You could have an attendance of 20,000 at a one day game and only 10,000 at a test match, so on first thoughts it would seem that the one day game is twice as popular from looking at those figures. However if you have 10,000 people over the course of 5 days that's potentially 50,000 people who have turned up to watch a test match, which is more than the 20,000 that turned up for a single one day game. Can you see what I'm saying? In this country, it's always been Test match cricket first and I would say it's the more popular from the 2. test match cricket is bigger than one day in this country due to our history in the game, but the there is no disputing the fact we are the only country that even remotely sells out test matches. The relevant cricket boards have tried everything to muster interest but even first day crowds in all cricket playing countries bar us are poor, apart from when we play Australia in Oz.Even the aussies when they aren't playing us struggle to sell tickets. I remember reading a couple of years ago when the big bash crowds in Oz were outselling the Australia international one day ticket sales quite easily. How you change it i don't know, but it just doesn't generate the income that one day cricket does. I don't think it's bigger in England due to our history. It's more to do with the fact we have prioritied test match cricket (probably due to the Ashes) and most of our best cricket has come in the test match arena. Like with anything, you pay for the better product. You're right in that T20 franchise cricket is very popular and generates a lot of revenue but given how different it is to international cricket (players from different countries playing together etc) it's a different discussion all together. In terms of international cricket- for the big nations, test match cricket is still in demand. Look at the test match attendances when we played South Africa in their own yard, add the total amount up over the entire match (all 5 days) and compare that number with the one day attendances and I'm not sure you can say the one day form is more popular, certainly amongst the big nations anyway. Obviously though, Cricket is more than just 4 countries and the talk about "test match cricket dying" is more to do with the lack of interest from the rest of the nations. For the big ones though, the demand and interest is there.
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Post by Hobhead on May 31, 2017 20:39:30 GMT
Just watching a bit of defenceless creature slaughter:
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