I have seen the light.

[rahuldravidfan]

That post basically shattered the head of the nail.

Twenty20 cricket, is simply overkill. I understand that it's all very exciting for spectators to watch as there are numerous boundaries every game, but the cricketing schedules were in overdrive already with both Test matches and One Day Internationals being played. They were struggling enough already as it was. So yes, Twenty20 is overkill.

What might be overkill for some, might be a source of income and way of life for some. Have you imagined of being a predicament like Kamran Khan? The challenge of being a Tino Best? Sustaining a family, paying mortages and living a self-sufficient life like Dan Vettori told a few months back? Having to choose between country & club just because your country's board has issues with the Indian board?

If people like it and the players want it, why do we have to be so outspoken and speak on the behalf of people who we have no business deciding for?

Its Mickey Mouse cricket and people have seen enough of Disney cartoons.

Didn't people chew their nails when Pakistan required 12 runs off the last over to win the WT20 in 2007? Didn't every T20 hater and "pundit" who criticized no ends the format end up falling in love with it after India won the WT20? Did you see the pain in the eyes of Younis Khan when he told all countries to tour Pakistan after they won the WT20 in 2009?

People like watching T20. Crowds like it, players love it, everyone's happy. Why are we not? All the T20 haters are the first ones to start threads out here and once the tourney is over, they start criticizing the format again. Why do we have to behave like hypocrites?

 

[SciD]

what's wrong if the guy now loves T20 cricket.

Are you paid money by Test cricket association to turn people away from T20 cricket.

 

[Howsie]

what's wrong if the guy now loves T20 cricket.

Are you paid money by Test cricket association to turn people away from T20 cricket.

Who's this aimed at?

 

[SciD]

Who's this aimed at?

Everyone who is hell bent on proving loyalty to Test cricket.

 

[MaD]

I don't give a crocodiles ass!
T20 is my favourite, it's the most exciting, I can't be screwed to watch a test
match for 112341435 hours

 

[Howsie]

0.3 Sharma to Hayden: No ball 1: Sharma digs in a short one, it was too high and Hayden couldn't hit it for six, therefore a no ball must be called

0.2 Sharma to Hayden: Six, another one, wow what a start

0.1 Sharma to Hayden: Six, what a start, Hayden starts with a six

Get's pretty boring tbh.

BTW Sharma and Hayden were just the first two player's to pop into my head

 

[SciD]

Sharma will go for that bowling against Chris Martin as well.

 

[rahuldravidfan]

what's wrong if the guy now loves T20 cricket.

Are you paid money by Test cricket association to turn people away from T20 cricket.

Hahaha. You MUST get reps for that answer :laugh

Positive ones from me, negative ones from ppl who think scoring 12 runs off 3 balls is "boring" !

I don't give a crocodiles ass!
T20 is my favourite, it's the most exciting, I can't be screwed to watch a test
match for 112341435 hours

Great answer. Expect a sharp reply from cricketdude. Some people can't really handle the heat

 

[SciD]

Hahaha. You MUST get reps for that answer :laugh

Positive ones from me, negative ones from ppl who think scoring 12 runs off 3 balls is "boring" !

Numerous threads have ment that this debate is getting boring here. everyone knows who is in which team.

 

[Howsie]

Numerous threads have ment that this debate is getting boring here. everyone knows who is in which team.

Yeah pretty much what I was thinking, I don't hate 20/20 cricket, I just don't watch the IPL or like it very much, annoys me when people get fussed over why I hate it, most people here know why I do.

 

[rahuldravidfan]

Yeah Sid. The debate is getting so boring. Its damn one-sided. Everyone loves T20. T20 haters are the first ones to start threads going gaga about their teams & fav players' performances. And as soon as the tournaments end, they do a complete u-turn and start criticizing pretty much everyone under the sun. :sarcasm

Now thats what I call being hypocritical and boring. Have an opinion, stick to it. It shouldn't be like a merry-go-round

 

[Owzat]

Too much of anything, especially forced down your throat as if it is as essential to living as water, will put people off. Too much, too fast (not gradual) and too big for its boots.

As for the game itself, too runs orientated, too short and thus too lacking in time for any tactical nuances to take effect. How much can a match twist and turn in 40 overs?!?!?!? I went to the Test where Rob Key scored 221, England scored something like 400 runs in the day and it was boooooooorrrrrrrrringgggggggggggg. The contest between bat and ball has been turned into a contest of who can hit the most sixes, the most runs etc.

For me the most entertaining cricket is when batsmen have to FIGHT for their runs, sometimes even have to decide whether to just try and survive or take the attack to the bowler if he's moving the ball about and conditions help the bowlers. So what if T20 gets a result, it isn't just the result factor but how it was achieved. Sure bowlers can bowl well in T20, but the game is just too short, too fast and too pointless. I like ODIs with 50 overs, but not so much when the runs dominate that too. Tests can be good, but if only they'd give a bit more to the bowlers instead of making it so the pitch lasts five days (for the love of ?????)

You can have T20, but please could people who love it keep quieter about it and stop trying to persuade those who don't that they should, have to and it's somehow "the future of cricket". Because if it is "the future of cricket" then I can see it making cricket extinct, I doubt cricket will last as much of a sport if it only lasts 40 overs a time. That would be like football turning to 30 minute matches.

It wasn't broke, and T20 was a pretty poor attempt to fix it anyway. It's real design was to draw people who might otherwise not be interested in cricket, not to become the direction cricket takes. You can't deny the impact it has made, but let's give it a chance to last long or fade before we try to change everyone's views on it. Who knows, those trying to force it on the rest of us may well be as bored with it by the time the rest of us get close to finding it appealing

 

[Howsie]

Yeah Sid. The debate is getting so boring. Its damn one-sided. Everyone loves T20. T20 haters are the first ones to start threads going gaga about their teams & fav players' performances. And as soon as the tournaments end, they do a complete u-turn and start criticizing pretty much everyone under the sun. :sarcasm

Now thats what I call being hypocritical and boring. Have an opinion, stick to it. It shouldn't be like a merry-go-round

Who does that?

 

[rahuldravidfan]

Hint - You know him very well

 

[Howsie]

Would probably just be easier to throw out a name tbh, unless your making up stuff up again to back up your weak arguements