Day-Night Tests - the answer to Twenty20 cricket?

[Kev]

If you want to go after school or work, say the game starts at 3 it wont finish until 9-10 some people wont get home to midnight maybe and then you have to get up at say 6am, so a lot of people wont be able to go because of that sort of stuff. I know people will say "Oh I can go on not much sleep" or something but people like me wouldn't be able to go to the cricket. I think they will probably lose younger people from test cricket then gain them from twenty20.

That's a pretty good point. I find now if I go to a day/night county game I still have to book the day off work, even for T20 although they start later, you still have to take the day off unless you work near the ground.

 

[F4rrukh]

Absolutely bad idea! Test cricket should be kept as it is now, the fun watching it now wouldn't be the same as in night for me.

 

[IanG]

Perhaps it should be tried at domestic level with the pink balls they've been road testing.

 

[McLOVIN]

even if they play at mid night,test will be boring...and T20 will be always exciting to the crowds.
they falls asleep while watching Test Cricket in Day light, they will start snoring if they play at night

 

[mattfb]

even if they play at mid night,test will be boring...and T20 will be always exciting to the crowds.
they falls asleep while watching Test Cricket in Day light, they will start snoring if they play at night

Who's they? The band wagoners that don't actually like cricket? Because Twenty20 isn't proper cricket. Test cricket is 10x better then Twenty20. Its just a joke game to get kids into cricket. Well that's what it originally was. Its gone way to far now and its ruining cricket.

 

[aussie1st]

Its just a joke game to get kids into cricket. Well that's what it originally was. Its gone way to far now and its ruining cricket.

Need to look no further for proof than India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly asked that the opening Test match against England be delayed by one day, so that captain Mahendra Singh Donhi can play in the Champions League Twenty20 final, if his team qualifies.

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=667310

What would make it even worst is if Dhoni played in the CL match rather than for his country.

 

[mattfb]

That just proves how much Twenty20 is stuffing up our game. Trying to change the date of a Test Match so a player can play in a stupid Twenty20 competition is simply dumb and if Dhoni chooses to play in the CL game than thats just disgusting. I wont applaud him and/or become a fan of his if he plays in the Test Match because thats what every player in there right mind should do.

 

[McLOVIN]

Who's they? The band wagoners that don't actually like cricket? Because Twenty20 isn't proper cricket. Test cricket is 10x better then Twenty20. Its just a joke game to get kids into cricket. Well that's what it originally was. Its gone way to far now and its ruining cricket.

every one knows its real cricket! but NO ONE cares about it when it comes to entertainment.
Test is BORING and LONG, T20, SHORT, FUN, ENTERTAINING.

T20 will spread cricket into countires like USA, CHINA. Test will never be popular in those countires. If you want cricket to grow, T20 is the way...

 

[adyhorn]

every one knows its real cricket! but NO ONE cares about it when it comes to entertainment.
Test is BORING and LONG, T20, SHORT, FUN, ENTERTAINING

You come to England or Australia and say that. In no way am I anti Twenty20, in fact I find some very entertaining, but to most fans over 20, Tests rule. And did you not see the 05 Ashes? If you call that boring you don't know anything about cricket.

 

[McLOVIN]

cricket doesnt revolve isnt around OZ, British any more. those days are OVER. :
Ppl in other places dont care about Ashes. (and no i didnt watch Ashes 05)

and thats another reason why cricket cant grow. for the big guns like England, OZ.
"oh! stripe their ODI status!" "stripe that countries Test status, they should play test"
(if it wasnt for BCCI, if any other was board in power BD would have lost their test status by now)

its always about the top teams. not all the countries can play good Test cricket you know. so they cant participate. and thats why they fall behind and feels like they dont belong. and cricket stays in 10-12 countries ...still

T20 is the reason why countries like Iraq, Hong-Kong, China, USA can come together and play cricket...

 

[mattfb]

Exactly. It wasn't made to be a popular format and destroy cricket, it was made for a bit of fun, to help get kids involved and other countries involved in cricket but Twenty20 will never ever become to main format or cricket.

 

[McLOVIN]

thats what i've trying to say. and YES, Test IS the main cricket. it cant replace with T20 or anything else, but all i was saying, T20 is/will be more popular and more ppl will enjoy it then test, no matter what time the test matches been played, day or night.

 

[mattfb]

Thats not what I was saying. I was saying Twenty20 is being used to promote cricket to different countries, so they can see what its about then start getting into it properly.

 

[smssia0112]

I personally find Twenty20 much more boring than test cricket, I've watched a few games and did not enjoy them at all, they were too repetitive for me and lacked the strokeplay and building of an innings you see in tests and even ODIs.

Everyone has a different opinion, test cricket is still the traditional form of cricket and people who aren't willing to accept test cricket aren't true cricket fans. Twenty20 is certainly having an adverse effect on the other forms.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I enjoy T20. But it's simple fun. Like a comic book. And a comic book isn't better than a good novel...

It sounds good in principal, have a T20 competition, get a lot of new nations, slowly get them into FC cricket. But how is it practically possible? A team like China or USA comes into a T20 comp, and does well, fine. But then how do we get them to play FC and Tests?

I say a minnow T20 Championship, broadcasted in all the nations taking part, with plenty of glitz and glamour. Get celebrities of those nations involved, lots of advertising, big prize money, attract large crowds.

Keep that going for a bit so that they get interested in actual FC and OD games involving their country, and then get them to play some ODIs and FCs against teams of equal/better skill. Then the Intercontinental Cup, then the Champions Trophy and the WC.

But is that practically possible?