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[pcfan123]

Dunno, but Im considering getting it, esp for the next Ashes. I think MacLovin has it

 

[srikarr12]

Just get a IP masker and away you watch all your IPL to all you americans........

 

[ballers101]

There's just no pleasing you is there? First you complain that Test crowds are empty and when I show that they aren't, you point to some abstract scenario. I mean if you're going to compare Test crowds, they have been diminishing ALL OVER THE WORLD for the last two decades. The IPL is a relatively new phenomenon. Should we get rid of ODI cricket as well? I mean clearly ODI's are more popular around the world on average, unless you are talking about big ticket series' like The Ashes or India-Australia. In fact, South Africa wasn't even able to fill up Test crowds a couple of years against decent opposition (I think it was England) during their traditional Boxing Day Test Match. This was before the IPL so claiming that the IPL is solely responsible for diminishing cricket crowds is completely and utterly fallacious. In India, if there's an international cricket match, there'll be people at the game. Doesn't matter if it is a Test, ODI or T20. In fact, I myself went to the Mumbai test against Australia a few years ago (2004?) and it was packed.


Ah, I see, here we go. So when you were a kid, growing up and playing crickets, you and your buddies always played 5-day, 2-innings per match games, right? I mean none of those 10-15 over scraps that you could play in the evening between lunch and dinner. I guess you guys were all NOT TRUE cricket fans back then. And then you suddenly matured to like only Test cricket? Cricket is cricket. The competition between bat and ball isn't tied to the form of the game. You can have Test matches that are dominated by batsmen and you can have T20 games that are dominated by bowlers. It all comes down to many different factors, including the pitch and weather conditions and of course the quality of the players involved. The game that is being played is still cricket--in fact it is more representative of the type of cricket that is played by the common cricket fan--not one who is pursuing the game on a professional level.

I really don't know why you think only one version of cricket must be the one that every true cricket fan has to watch or be subject to denigration from people with an elitist point of view like yourself.


Ah, the personal insult! "I can't prove that Twenty20 is a lesser form of the game so I'm going to pretend like you don't like Test cricket". Buddy, I've been watching cricket for close to 2 decades, now. When I first started following cricket seriously, Test cricket was quickly losing ground to ODI's. You know how Test cricket was revived? Not by blacklisting ODI's. It was revived as teams evolved. It was revived as the Australian juggernaut emerged. It was revived through epic series' such as the 2001 India-Australia affair and the 2005 Ashes. If Test cricket is to survive the test of time, it needs to continue to provide such encounters. Right now, Test cricket is as healthy as it has been in ages. There is a real tussle for the top side in the world with India, Australia, South Africa and England all capable of beating each other home and away, with the likes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand not far behind.

Twenty20 CAN coexist with the other forms of the game. In the same way that we found a way to balance ODI's and Test cricket, we will find a way to balance Test cricket, ODI's and Twenty20. The Ashes and the 50-over cricket world cup are still the premier events in the world calendar. A player would still rather win The Ashes and the World cup than win an IPL ring.

In short, stop pretending like your elitist views are facts. There are plenty of people in the world who are able to tolerate and appreciate the various forms of the game for what it is--cricket. Behind the glitz, glamour and money, it is still a contest between bat and ball and I still stay awake till the wee hours of the morning to watch a good contest--whether it is the deciding Test of the Border-Gavaskar trophy or a nail-biting encounter in the IPL.

T20s can coexist with other forms of cricket, really you honestly believe that. Well if that's your opinion then I will respect that but my opinion that if people find T20s more entertaining then they start to forget Test Match cricket. I was stating my opinion because it is difficult for anyone to like cricket as a whole, especially when every single form is so unique. I said this and I will say it again, ODIs and Test match can work well together because its only 2 different forms of cricket.

If you have a 3rd where no matter what happens a team is most likely to always be in the game then people's attention will turn to T20s. The reason being because it is new and it's very exciting, I never said that T20s aren't exciting, I said that T20s aren't cricket. Not only that but by trying to implicate T20s into a tour of the country eventually a team would just be playing one or two T20s they could have a series. By doing this then you are putting the rest of the forms in even more danger. You say that T20 can coexist with Test and ODIs when many people say that there all different how is it possible for a person to watch. 3 runs per over, 5 or 6 runs per over to 8 runs an over. It's difficult you cannot expect the average person to like all three, so the solution is that one of these forms will fail, either now or eventually.

Now because of the reaction by fans around the world, they believe after watching tons of great IPL 20/20s that T20s will only become larger. So, either Tests get weaker or ODIs get weaker, well let me see, the World Cup is the largest cricket event and I don't believe that any cricket fan won't be watching the 2011 World Cup. So the solution will be that Test cricket will eventually start to get weaker, right now its in great shape because India just became Number 1 after so many years of Australia being the best. However, even with this Test cricket is going to get weaker, that's my opinion and I think that the IPL is showing too much emphasis on T20s.

The whole comment on if I would play 10 over cricket matches, has no relevance to the topic at hand. Now first off we wouldn't play Test Matches but we would play unlimited overs till all wickets are gone. The difference is that we would lose our wickets pretty quickly so time was never a factor. Now I never said that I only like Test match cricket, I love ODIs its just like I said before 20/20s is going to kill Test match cricket in my opinion.

Also, the thing that is very irritating about 20/20s is that you can never know the outcome because anything is possible in the game, any team can win on any given day. It adds a little spice but it also kind of shows skill sometimes isn't a factor which makes the game overrated, because like I said before, Pakistan is the best T20 team in the world however, it has no meaning unless they show actual skill the games.

So what's the solution, have the IPL made into a domestic league where they also play 4 day first class matches along with One Day games. Just like the English Domestic League, you allow the English players and whoever to go back to English League or Australian League. While the IPL continues just like these domestic leagues do as well.

 

[pcfan123]

Why dont you guys (ballers and sohum) publish a novel and then tell me when the movie comes out

 

[drainpipe32]

:laugh That pretty much sums this thread up

 

[-D-S-B-]

Wow, someone's keen:laugh
Those posts must have taken half the day!

 

[rahuldravidfan]

So much passion on display in this thread