Whats better. One day cricket or big bash cricket?
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I don’t think most people are saying it isnt okay to enjoy it, even if they don’t . What some people understandably have an issue with is the way indistinguishable t20 leagues are taking over the cricket calendar.
Interest in non WC ODIs was waning long before T20 turned up.
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Franchise T20 Champions League. Stuffed if I know how to arrange it if the same player plays for multiple teams though.
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They've overcooked the golden goose with Big Bash for me
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it was crap having multiple entrants from the same comp, but that's where the money is. should be winners from each comp.
I don't mind this idea at all.
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At least we still get the home summer Test series on free to air television.
I thought I was old and conservative when it comes to cricket - it's nice to know I'm not the only cricketing curmudgeon around here.
If Bigfooty was around then, people would have gone off their rockers about ODIs invading into the space that should be left for traditions like the New Year's Test.
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The recent ODI against NZ reinforces my point.
20/20 cricket simply doesn't have the scope for recovery from batting collapses that 50 over cricket does.
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I assume by scope you mean number of ways to recover as opposed to opportunities to recover. As in T20 cricket you can definitely recover from a batting collapse but the formula is essentially just keep hitting. For example, Australia recovered several times from early batting collapses through Stoinis and Wade during the recent World Cup. You're chasing less runs so its easier to get back in to a position where you give yourself a chance. Well maybe not easier but quicker I guess.
This is not a comment of my enjoyment of either form of the game just simply a comment in regards to that particular point.
It's not just you mate. I don't know anyone over the age of 12 who is interested in twenty twenty.
Yeah but now blokes like Eoin Morgan are hitting sixes off the last ball to win games of cricket.
One of the big problems with that (apart from being even more T20 crowding out the calendar) was players who qualified under multiple teams. It was basically that if you qualified with an Indian team, you played for the Indian team.
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I've long since stopped watching ODIs - I think the WC hosted in AUS/NZ was the last ODI I watched. Then there were the years when I only watched the WC ODIs. The endless procession of meaningless "Best of X" ODI series finished me.
Conversely, I'll watch pretty much every ball bowled of the Summer Tests.
Big Bash, yeah I do watch the odd game. Mostly die to it's convenient prime time placement on FTA. But I do tire of it quickly. It gets very same-y. So by the time the Sydney Test has packed up the pink for another year, I'm pretty much finished with BBL. Have never watched any of the finals in any year.
I liken T20 to chocolate mud cake. When some appears you tuck in and think its great. But when it appears every night, you get very bored of it very quickly
Conversely, I'll watch pretty much every ball bowled of the Summer Tests.
Big Bash, yeah I do watch the odd game. Mostly die to it's convenient prime time placement on FTA. But I do tire of it quickly. It gets very same-y. So by the time the Sydney Test has packed up the pink for another year, I'm pretty much finished with BBL. Have never watched any of the finals in any year.
I liken T20 to chocolate mud cake. When some appears you tuck in and think its great. But when it appears every night, you get very bored of it very quickly
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Why can't odis die? And T20s
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Because Test cricket cannot survive on it's own globally
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It's a sad things ODIs are generally boring and T20s are luck based
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I predict in 5-10 years time there will only be around 5 test playing nations.
Australia, England, South Africa, India, New Zealand
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I mean all 3 of those actually make money from tests
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The rest don't
(Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe regularly play to empty test crowds)
