The 100 Cricket

[Swanjaxs]

16 runs from 16 balls

 

[TheLoneRanger]

WF changed their opening batters to a fvcking worse combination.

 

[BrynCartwright]

Load of shit innit..

 

[BrynCartwright]

Test cricket is the ultimate format...

 

[BrynCartwright]

....and why...in holy fk, when we already have an established 120 ball game in the T20, do we need this useless piece of toss, sponsored by unhealthy fatty crisps...a complete load of shit...

 

[Cooperman]

Test cricket is the ultimate format...

I concur. It always will be.

 

[Cooperman]

....and why...in holy fk, when we already have an established 120 ball game in the T20, do we need this useless piece of toss, sponsored by unhealthy fatty crisps...a complete load of shit...

I turned the telly on earlier and caught a glimpse of the Fire game. The screen graphics made me turn it off.

 

[Niigata Jack]

I concur. It always will be.

Its dying a slow Death, money is in Franchise Cricket and that's where the players want to go, Harmison spoke about it on Talksport the other week saying that only England, Australia and India take test Cricket seriously.

 

[Cooperman]

Its dying a slow Death, money is in Franchise Cricket and that's where the players want to go, Harmison spoke about it on Talksport the other week saying that only England, Australia and India take test Cricket seriously.

The equivalent of IPL in NZ, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean is utter rubbish. Those competitions are not sustainable. Whereas the Lords Test, the Gabba Test, Boxing Day at the MCG will go on and on.

 

[Niigata Jack]

The equivalent of IPL in NZ, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean is utter rubbish. Those competitions are not sustainable. Whereas the Lords Test, the Gabba Test, Boxing Day at the MCG will go on and on.

That's just 3 tests!

 

[exiledclaseboy]

That's just 3 tests!

Four, there’s two at Lord’s every summer. The point is though that even the less competitive nations will always want to tour those three countries because that’s where the profile and the money is. Amd wherever England go in the world they take thousands of fans with them. Those test tours bankroll the smaller nations for years. You get nothing like that following for white ball cricket. The top players may be able to command big paydays from some of the franchises but very little of that gets to the national associations of the smaller countries. I’d imagine none of the IPL money leaves India.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Four, there’s two at Lord’s every summer. The point is though that even the less competitive nations will always want to tour those three countries because that’s where the profile and the money is. Amd wherever England go in the world they take thousands of fans with them. Those test tours bankroll the smaller nations for years. You get nothing like that following for white ball cricket. The top players may be able to command big paydays from some of the franchises but very little of that gets to the national associations of the smaller countries. I’d imagine none of the IPL money leaves India.

Watched a little bit of a Test series out in the Caribbean a couple of years ago on tv, West Indies v Sri Lanka, and on most days there were more players out on the field than spectators in the stands, and I'm not even joking.
Post covid btw lol

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Watched a little bit of a Test series out in the Caribbean a couple of years ago on tv, West Indies v Sri Lanka, and on most days there were more players out on the field than spectators in the stands, and I'm not even joking.

Yup. That’s why they rely so much on the tours from England, Australia and India and will be desperate for them to continue. Those predicting the death of test cricket don’t seem to realise that it would actually be the death of all bilateral international cricket outside of the ICC tournaments. Because white ball tours won’t happen on their own. So all we’d effectively be left with are the franchises that don’t really mean anything to anyone playing a series of idemtikit T20 tournaments all over the world at various times. And that bubble will also burst at some point. Cricket is busily hastening its own demise at the moment with all these franchise events

 

[Swanjaxs]

Yup. That’s why they rely so much on the tours from England, Australia and India and will be desperate for them to continue. Those predicting the death of test cricket don’t seem to realise that it would actually be the death of all bilateral international cricket outside of the ICC tournaments. Because white ball tours won’t happen on their own. So all we’d effectively be left with are the franchises that don’t really mean anything to anyone playing a series of idemtikit T20 tournaments all over the world at various times. And that bubble will also burst at some point. Cricket is busily hastening its own demise at the moment with all these franchise events

For me white ball cricket is practically another sport from Test Match cricket.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

For me white ball cricket is practically another sport from Test Match cricket.

I agree. I enjoy a limited overs game and I prefer 50 overs of the two formats but neither of them compare to the longest format. The hundred format will be forgotten in a few years.