Death of T20 imminent? Fad passing?

[Iridium]

If they donate $400 million out of it to the development of the minnows it will be v.v.good for world cricket

Modi would rather shoot himself in the face than do that.

 

[Themer]

Modi would rather shoot himself in the face than do that.

It has nothing to do with him any more anyway.

I hope it does die down. I think its perfectly acceptable having three formats but having too many of one type isn't going to attract more people to watch. In fact the opposite is happening as people get bored with watching the same slogathon every innings.

 

[blake]

Was very surprised when I saw that it was actually Owzat who started the thread, I had my money on Terminator for sure.

 

[pcfan123]

Why? The thread title actually makes sense. This Terminator guy is a moron.

 

[pcfan123]

Win

 

[Highlander999]

LOL and his profile says he is 20. Either he is lying or he is one weird person

 

[Ollie_H]

LOL and his profile says he is 20. Either he is lying or he is one weird person

Think he means posting type . Honestly I will be very happy when T20 cricket dies, I am all for it being there on the side with a few games here and there, but not exploited that it is at the moment.

@Angry's point of County Cricket being at saturation level, I would say it is in England, but it certainly isn't in somewhere like Australia.

 

[Highlander999]

Think he means posting type

I know fool I meant he just posts like a dildo

 

[sohum]

Test cricket has stood the test of time. As long as you have cricket you will have Test cricket. We've seen many fads come and go. Remember all that silly super max cricket or whatever it was called. I believe it was Martin Crowe who came up with that horrible concept (albeit exciting!).

The difference with T20 is that it's leading cricket into the big money territory.

I think the IPL will shoot itself in the foot pretty soon. Hopefully in a few years an equilibrium will have been reached where T20 is played mainly in the World Cup and by associate nations trying to qualify to the World Cup and by the domestic Twenty20 establishments.

 

[pcfan123]

this is the most blatant attempt at plagiarism I have ever seen. He has copies posts from Manny Pacqio and Hercules on ICF

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Mark added 0 Minutes and 20 Seconds later...

I hate seeing all the talent-less ballyvood actors and actresses associating themselves with the game of cricket to get cheap publicity. These people haven't got a clue about cricket and are nothing more than attention *****s. Continuing along the same lines, I can't stand the increased commercialisation of cricket. It shouldn't happen at the viewer's expense. A six is a six, not a DLF maximum. A catch is a catch, not a Citi moment of success. I should be able to watch the 6th ball of an over, and i shouldn't have to lean closer to the screen because it shrinks to one side to fit the stupid vodafone advert which i couldn't care less about.

I also hate this new found relevance of T20 in India. A phenomenon that is influencing young indian kids to become shot-happy front footed sloggers - kids more interested in hitting DLF maximums to get an IPL contract instead of learning the age old Indian way of batting, which is based on fundamentals of timing, placement and watching the ball 'til the last second. In 10 years time, will we see Indian batsmen playing the way Gambhir, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman do...using the pace of the ball to find the boundary, picking gaps between point and cover with effortless ease, with just a delicate push. The day i see 5 Indians batting like demented and talentless pakistanis is the day i stop watching cricket. Signs are ominous, as Saurabh Tiwary was picked in the side recently, and he might be the first of many more to come.

quoted just in case he edits it.

Mark added 2 Minutes and 40 Seconds later...

Ok this is definitely plagiarism.

He has copied one post from Hercules on ICF and made a thread on PC and this post he made right now is from a different account on ICF.

Indian Cricket Fans - View Single Post - What do you hate about Cricket ?

PLAGIARISM!

 

[darthlewis1]

If t20 ends then hopefully countrys in the sub-continent will start to get crowds like they used too and then test cricket will be alive again, but for the west-indies the future is looking grim as they seem to just be running out of talent, I'd really love them to be a world class team again.

 

[sohum]

If t20 ends then hopefully countrys in the sub-continent will start to get crowds like they used too and then test cricket will be alive again, but for the west-indies the future is looking grim as they seem to just be running out of talent, I'd really love them to be a world class team again.

Well the problem isn't relevant in India, where we manage to fill grounds regardless of the format. Pakistan obviously has non-cricketing related issues. Sri Lanka is in a financial hole and I don't think Bangladesh every filled cricket grounds. So really, the situation is no different than it was before, except that everyone has an opinion of Twenty20 and the BCCI and a medium to share it.

 

[Params7]

This thread put a smile on my face. ODI > Tests > T20s. But they all have their seasons and their place in the sport, none of them are dying. T20 is a moneymaker, ODI is the most mainstream with the World Cup and Tests is time honored and the closest thing we have to origins of cricket and will never die.

 

[tech.007]

it doent matter ....players are getting money....in t20...50...test......

 

[smssia0112]

The ICC and its members have done a terrible job managing the game over the last decade and they're paying the price. Looks like Twenty20 cricket is headed the same way as ODI cricket - overplayed and lacking in fans. As long as a form makes money the powers that be will try to push it as far as they can. Without moderation you only ensure that things spread out. Instead of filling the stadium in one off T20 Internationals, they bring in more and just spread the fans out. They overestimated and now they're struggling to fill the stadiums. Cricket is just such a sport that it's not that hard to get bored of for most of the general public. I'm noticing a serious decline in the interest of Australians in the game because it just never ends, and the traditional forms are getting very little attention. There's a World Cup every year, then there's a 7 match ODI series that never ends, and somewhere in the middle are 2 match test series between quality teams. It's just ridiculous.