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I enjoyed today but agree in principle cricket is becoming boring to me in the one day format especially, scores regularly over 350 in 50 over games is too high. I remember being a bairn and seeing Sri Lanka score 309 in late 90's, now thats par score. Test matches will always be the best but this increased fast paced cricket is going to end up having 5 overs a side in the year 2035.
 
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Great finisher, of his time like.

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Agree with the OP tbh, I'm not the biggest fan of slap and dash, or white ball cricket, as it were.

I'll always enjoy mullering the Aussies of course, and this ODI England side is the best we've ever had, in my life, but it's not test cricket, it's like a video game .
 
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This is just an issue with two innings games. If the first innings in a big score and the team batting second makes a pigs ear of it early on then the excitement just drains away.

Horse racing has a handicapping system to produce a close finish.

However, this kind of thing doesn't happen often, or at least close exciting finishes happen often enough to compensate. So, do nothing would be my advice.

"Hard cases make bad law is an adage or legal maxim. The phrase means that an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases. In other words, a general law is better drafted for the average circumstance as this will be more common."
 
I understand that a regular 400+ score would become dull .... anything that becomes predictable generally is.

They somehow need to find a ball that, in the right hands, gives the bowlers some assistance. At present they seem like cannon fodder
 
There was plenty for the bowlers when England bowled, turn and bounce for the spinners, a bit of swing from Willey and wood and plunks bowling heat
 
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Today was a great example of a low scoring game being better than a 400 game.

Instead of everyone trying to lash it for 50 overs it was much more tactical.
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Had to come.

:lol:. Thing is the crowd were robbed of about 40 overs actual play due to incompetence on both sides.

That it turned into a great day is down to one player, who by the way got some luck early in the innings.

Would it have been a great day if England had been rolled for 130, which could easily have happened?

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I understand that a regular 400+ score would become dull .... anything that becomes predictable generally is.

They somehow need to find a ball that, in the right hands, gives the bowlers some assistance. At present they seem like cannon fodder
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England used that ball to remove them for 200, 215 and 250 odd this series

I'm all for England scoring 400 plus then bowling teams out for 200 odd.

We've suffered loads of hammerings in the past, where people say, England must catch up and play like this or that.

Well we've caught up and bypassed some and it's now their turn to catch up.

Is that a bad thing?
 
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