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Rubbish Things About Cricket

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Cricket/test match snobs or odi/20-20 haters- if you loved cricket you would love all forms of the game

BCCI - stunting the growth of cricket and new technologies. they didn't invent 20/20 which they also initially objected too.

Average Aussies and other journey men being paid extortionate wages - when will clubs learn usually made captain too

Clubs not being able to field teams - major pet hate, particularly those teams who do it a lot. We all just want to play cricket so if cant get teams out you shouldn't be in the league to start with.

Clubs calling games off at the first sight of rain god send for the teams who can't field a team.

Getting out 1st ball. I'm sure I have more
 

SAFC 2012 said:
:lol::lol: Sad thing is hes a f***ing cracking player when he doesnt convince himself that every wicket is a mine field and stands blocking all day
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most technically gifted in the England team- looks a million dollars but fails to get those big scores on a regular basis.
 
eddyfinn said:
Cricket/test match snobs or odi/20-20 haters- if you loved cricket you would love all forms of the game
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Sorry mate, but you're wrong there.

I've been thoroughly entertained by this Test match, a proper contest where ball was on top and bat had to fight for every run. In T20 they call it a bad pitch and a bad game unless the bat is dominant, every six is cheered like a victory and another one added to the counter.

They don't have a counter for the amount of times the ball goes past the edge, do they?
 
Steak Pie said:
Sorry mate, but you're wrong there.

I've been thoroughly entertained by this Test match, a proper contest where ball was on top and bat had to fight for every run. In T20 they call it a bad pitch and a bad game unless the bat is dominant, every six is cheered like a victory and another one added to the counter.

They don't have a counter for the amount of times the ball goes past the edge, do they?
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Pretty much my view. There's no real contest between bat and ball. It's one team's batsmen against the other team's batsmen with the bowlers main duty being to serve something up for the batsmen to hit. When has a bowler ever won a game odi/t20 for his team? It always comes down to the batsmen.

It's not cricket snobbery to declare something like that as crap, because while we have test cricket, it will always be dreary as hell in comparison. That goes for any form of white ball cricket.
 
chelt_mackem said:
Pretty much my view. There's no real contest between bat and ball. It's one team's batsmen against the other team's batsmen with the bowlers main duty being to serve something up for the batsmen to hit. When has a bowler ever won a game odi/t20 for his team? It always comes down to the batsmen.

It's not cricket snobbery to declare something like that as crap, because while we have test cricket, it will always be dreary as hell in comparison. That goes for any form of white ball cricket.
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I agree, you only have to look what the ECB have done to the 40 over game this season, stricter fielding regs, changing the ball to a harder compound, allowing the heavy roller back on between innings and instructing umpires to tighten up on wides and no balls. It's all designed to have higher scoring games because that's what the ECB think will stop the dwindling crowds. Already this season average 1st innings scores have gone up by 30 runs.

The ECB seem to think the only thing cricket supporters want is to see the ball get hit out the ground, they'll end up driving the traditional supporters away from the limited overs game, and any new supporters brought in by the crash bang game will disappear once the novelty wears off.
 
Harry Lime said:
The ECB seem to think the only thing cricket supporters want is to see the ball get hit out the ground, they'll end up driving the traditional supporters away from the limited overs game,
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If they were real traditional supprters they wouldn't be at the limited overs games in the first place.

I think Test cricket is all right on the whole, but the best form of the game is the county championship, at least the way it used to be.

Never would I be tempted to part with £70+ to endure days such as the first 2 of this test, and anybody who says that was particularly entertaining is deluding themselves.
 
TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
If they were real traditional supprters they wouldn't be at the limited overs games in the first place.
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Most of us "real traditional" supporters were around when the Gillette cup and later the John Player league were the premier one day comps in the country. The emphasis back then was to still to try and play "proper" cricket, but at a faster rate than the CC game. Lots of regular 4 day supporters want to watch limited overs cricket, but not to the point where it becomes "gimmicky" cricket just to keep the fickle fans entertained.
 
How long it takes to get play back underway once the rain has actually stopped....

"30 mins for a pitch inspection, another hour to allow the ground staff to work, take lunch, another pitch inspection, play due to start in 50mins"

At which point its started raining again... :roll:

Its 2013 ffs can nothing be done about this!?

Norma Stitz said:
No test cricket on terrestrial TV
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Top shout [even though I have sky]
 
plenny of tickets available there by the looks too.

easy option for Sunday- get up , look at the weather- if ok and game looking decent then log on, buy and print off.
 
bcci

it being four if the fielder has touched the boundary- dont know why it just winds me up
 
Making teas then finding out the game has been called off as you roll into the car park. At least bait was sorted for a week.
 
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