Numbers on shirts for coming Ashes series

[swingdog]

Well, I wouldn't have suspected this is what made me give up watching test cricket, but there you go:

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/tes...-tim-paine-ashes-test-championship/2019-07-08

 

[Voice of the G]

I like the idea when trying to identify fieldsman but lets hope this does not lead to advertising on tops.

 

[t_94]

Yuck

 

[Van_Dyke]

 

[Ishikawa]

I am not a fan of bringing it into test cricket.

But...

I do like it in the shield as it helps identify players who I am not familiar with. Which is probably the exact thing for whom they are aiming this idea at. However, with the broadcast levels of test cricket and the minimum standards of screens/scorecards at every English/Australian ground is surely unnecessary.

 

[Richard Pryor]

everybody step back

I THINK I'M GONNA VOMIT

BLEUEURURUUEUEGUUGEHGH

 

[Richard Pryor]

I like the idea when trying to identify fieldsman but lets hope this does not lead to advertising on tops.

Sponsor logos have been on test whites for years

 

[big_e]

Well, I wouldn't have suspected this is what made me give up watching test cricket, but there you go:

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/tes...-tim-paine-ashes-test-championship/2019-07-08

You'll stop watching test cricket because of this? Rightio.

I think this is a great idea. Anything that helps spectators identify players is brilliant. It shouldn't be difficult to know who is who on the field. With numbers (and to a lesser extent names) on players shirts, combined with those numbers next to the players' names on the scoreboards, you'll know instantly who is who. And I fail to see how that is a bad thing.

 

[worbod]

everybody step back

I THINK I'M GONNA VOMIT

BLEUEURURUUEUEGUUGEHGH

But sir, the numbers are only wafer thin.

 

[1989]

I don't even like numbers on ODI shirts. Keep it classy.

Maybe the players can chat to the commentators while they are batting and fielding too.

Gotta be a place for free hits as well.

 

[Gough]

If it helps people identify players more easily and helps attract people to the game, I'm not really against it. It doesn't effect the game in any way.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Sponsor logos have been on test whites for years

They have, and I despise that but at least they aren't taking over the shirt, like footy jumpers, and some ODI kits.

I'm generally conservative when it comes to changing cricket, but this really takes nothing away (it affects the asthetics a little). Its far less of a problem than day-night Tests, modern bats, or people who want to introduce over limits in the first innings, or many other changes to the weay the game is actually played. And it may help people who drop in and out of a day's play on TV, or go to a game every now and then but aren't regular watchers.

 

[Voice of the G]

They have, and I despise that but at least they aren't taking over the shirt, like footy jumpers, and some ODI kits.

I'm generally conservative when it comes to changing cricket, but this really takes nothing away (it affects the asthetics a little). Its far less of a problem than day-night Tests, modern bats, or people who want to introduce over limits in the first innings, or many other changes to the weay the game is actually played. And it may help people who drop in and out of a day's play on TV, or go to a game every now and then but aren't regular watchers.

Could help the kids identify the players better to.

 

[Kyptastic]

People will complain about this on the first day of the first test and then move on. Non-issue.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Looks dreadful

If you don't know the players very well then you aren't watching test cricket anyway

Can't the BCCI put a stop to this somehow?

 

[Voice of the G]

Looks dreadful

If you don't know the players very well then you aren't watching test cricket anyway

Can't the BCCI put a stop to this somehow?

We want the ones" not watching" test cricket to get involved in cricket.Personally do not like it but if it helps in more people showing an interest in watching cricket including the kids all the better.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

We want the ones" not watching" test cricket to get involved in cricket.Personally do not like it but if it helps in more people showing an interest in watching cricket including the kids all the better.

Has anyone ever said they don't like tests because they can't tell who the players are?

Did people flock to Shield cricket when they brought it in there?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

If you don't know the players very well then you aren't watching test cricket anyway

Most people aren't watching.

 

[Cleavy]

doesn't bother me, as long as we have numbers 1 to 11 only

 

[Aussie_boy]

Not a fan of this but then again I don't mind the numbers on Sheffield Shield shirts, they do somewhat help identify players on dodgy streams though which isn't really a problem for test cricket.

 

[big_e]

Looks dreadful

If you don't know the players very well then you aren't watching test cricket anyway

Can't the BCCI put a stop to this somehow?

Dig up some highlights of the series vs Sri Lanka earlier this year and take note of how little the commentators knew who the SL fielders were.

 

[Richard Pryor]

I don't have much of a problem with names, it's the numbers that really irk me (not really sure why, just doesn't seem very "test cricket" to me).

 

[swingdog]

Dig up some highlights of the series vs Sri Lanka earlier this year and take note of how little the commentators knew who the SL fielders were.

That says more about the commentators than anything else.

 

[skipper kelly]

Don't care what they are wearing as long as they are playing cricket. I only watch for the cricket.

 

[Kappa]

So young kids and casual viewers can actually know who the players are, which might help attract them to becoming cricket fans.

I've been to a shield game and not knowing which players are which definitely makes the game feel far less engaging.