T20 is good for people with a small brain and are just not smart enough for test cricket, Test cricket if you love cricket is so much more interesting and only the best are good at it.
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T20 is good for people with a small brain and are just not smart enough for test cricket, Test cricket if you love cricket is so much more interesting and only the best are good at it.
T20 is good for people with a small brain and are just not smart enough for test cricket, Test cricket if you love cricket is so much more interesting and only the best are good at it.
But they are crap at test cricket just sh-t cricketersAll the best west Indian talents play t20 but anyway..
But that’s because they play hardly any FC and test cricketBut they are crap at test cricket just sh-t cricketers
But they are crap at test cricket just sh-t cricketers
But they are crap at test cricket just sh-t cricketers
It’s India who dig their heels in and refuse to playIndia and Pakistan need to sort their sh*t out and play Test cricket against each other.
It's insane. They've developed great rivalries with Australia and England over the last twenty years and their greatest rival is ignored. It's like Hawthorn refusing to play Essendon or Geelong.It’s India who dig their heels in and refuse to play
It would be the most watched test series of them all. It’s also exactly what test cricket needsIt's insane. They've developed great rivalries with Australia and England over the last twenty years and their greatest rival is ignored. It's like Hawthorn refusing to play Essendon or Geelong.
I do not care if it four days or five. As long as it allows for 30 hours play across 4 days in a day/night Test it still a Test match to me.I think test cricket should remain as a 5 day game. I think the 5th day must be seen for what it originally was for and that is to increase the likelihood of there being a result. I think curators need to make sure that games are likely to end of the 4th day or early in the 5th.
I do not care if it four days or five. As long as it allows for 30 hours play across 4 days in a day/night Test it still a Test match to me.
When you say 5th day was originally for, you should note Test cricket also had a rest day at one point too so sometimes 5th day was really a 6th day pitch. So the day numbers is less important to me. What is important to me is a Test be 30 hours play at minimum and hopefully averaging around 15 overs an hour. When some teams get it down to only 11 overs an hour then officials need to step in and do something. But thankfully that point seems to have past. West Indies at one point were only bowling 11 overs and hour which was a farce. If someone only bowls 11 overs in an hour it more an outlier now rather than a trend a team goes with.
I think you forgetting there only ever going to be a few games of day/night Test matches each season.Thats ok, but are we going to burn players out and retire and turn some away? No to longer days for me.
In what way? They play that many ODIs and that doesn’t bother them. Also less days means more rest.Thats ok, but are we going to burn players out and retire and turn some away? No to longer days for me.
In what way? They play that many ODIs and that doesn’t bother them. Also less days means more rest.
Personally I would stick to 5 day test cricket
The fast bowlers are already scrambling to manage work loads and breaking down enough. Asking them to do longer days sounds like trouble. Can see a lot of poor all rounders getting played in this sort of cricket. Can see players retiring earlier. No doubt longer days are harder on the body.
Modern fast bowlers are bowling less than they ever bowled. Yes they play more games but they never bowl at training anymore. T20 bowling is like 4 overs which is hardly even a warm up.
What on earth are they doing at training then? Pretty sure they still do. Players are complaining about bowling too many overs a day in test cricket as it is, what's going to happen if you ask them to bowl more? Pretty sure if you put forward longer days and 4 day tests the players would reject it.
When I first heard four day tests suggested a few years back, the idea was to play them Thursday to Sunday. Partly so it would finish on a weekend rather than a Monday or Tuesday, when people are at work/school. But also because you would get a rhythm going, so a cricket fan could know that on any given Thursday, a test match would be starting. At the moment it's all a bit random, which doesn't help.I do not care if it four days or five. As long as it allows for 30 hours play across 4 days in a day/night Test it still a Test match to me.
When you say 5th day was originally for, you should note Test cricket also had a rest day at one point too so sometimes 5th day was really a 6th day pitch. So the day numbers is less important to me. What is important to me is a Test be 30 hours play at minimum and hopefully averaging around 15 overs an hour. When some teams get it down to only 11 overs an hour then officials need to step in and do something. But thankfully that point seems to have past. West Indies at one point were only bowling 11 overs and hour which was a farce. If someone only bowls 11 overs in an hour it more an outlier now rather than a trend a team goes with.
The bowlers are very much told what they can and can’t do at training. It is not the players complaining it’s the sports scientist. The coaches would have the bowlers doing twice their current workloads and swear on their heart they would get less injuries if they worked harder. The sports science guys think the opposite.
I would laugh at any bowler who said they were doing it tough these days, it’s bloody Hollywood how they have it now.
Yeah, Thursday to Sunday makes complete sense.When I first heard four day tests suggested a few years back, the idea was to play them Thursday to Sunday. Partly so it would finish on a weekend rather than a Monday or Tuesday, when people are at work/school. But also because you would get a rhythm going, so a cricket fan could know that on any given Thursday, a test match would be starting. At the moment it's all a bit random, which doesn't help.
Pretty good idea at face value. Unfortunately with the five day system it won't work because they want 3 day breaks.When I first heard four day tests suggested a few years back, the idea was to play them Thursday to Sunday. Partly so it would finish on a weekend rather than a Monday or Tuesday, when people are at work/school. But also because you would get a rhythm going, so a cricket fan could know that on any given Thursday, a test match would be starting. At the moment it's all a bit random, which doesn't help.