A ten thousand word essay on Test cricket by an American

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I agree, I watched the Ashes in Australia last year, it was my first time ever that I watched a entire Test match live (I watched it on my PS3 because I don't have any access to cricket match on TV in the USA) and it was awesome because I can watch it after dinner (from 6 pm till 2 am)

So yeah, it's all the journey... if England get it done in three days :p
Do you understand the lbw law?
 

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Do you understand the lbw law?
It depends... if the ball was pitched on the pad that will surely will hit the wickets, the batsmen will be out. However the reviews add the factors such as the centimeters or whether the call will be made to the third umpire or the field umpire himself.

Am I wrong?
 

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Sort of, you're confusing the LBW law and the umpire decision review system.

LBW law has a few main criteria.
1. Ball must hit any part of the body that isn't the bat or gloves.
2. Ball must be going on to hit the stumps.
3. Ball must not land on the pitch outside the line of leg stump.
4. Ball must hit the batsman in line with the stumps, unless the batsman is not offering a shot in which case the ball hitting him outside the line of off stump (but not leg) is acceptable.

Those are the things the umpire has to decide, the review system is different.
 

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Sort of, you're confusing the LBW law and the umpire decision review system.

LBW law has a few main criteria.
1. Ball must hit any part of the body that isn't the bat or gloves.
2. Ball must be going on to hit the stumps.
3. Ball must not land on the pitch outside the line of leg stump.
4. Ball must hit the batsman in line with the stumps, unless the batsman is not offering a shot in which case the ball hitting him outside the line of off stump (but not leg) is acceptable.

Those are the things the umpire has to decide, the review system is different.
All right, thank you for clarifying the LBW rules to me, but I thought I got it when I watched the Ashes live in the USA such as Michael Beer's debut, Cook and Strauss's hot streaks in the Down Under, so it was a fun series to watch live for the first time in my life! lol
 

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All right, thank you for clarifying the LBW rules to me, but I thought I got it when I watched the Ashes live in the USA such as Michael Beer's debut, Cook and Strauss's hot streaks in the Down Under, so it was a fun series to watch live for the first time in my life! lol
Good that you were able to and enjoyed it. Nothing is quite like test cricket.

Btw, go Packers and Rays.:thumbsu:
 

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Good that you were able to and enjoyed it. Nothing is quite like test cricket.

Btw, go Packers and Rays.:thumbsu:
I agree, my friends told me that when they look at Test cricket, they said that they don't understand the rules of seeing the same action over and over like a broken record lol :p

So I like it because it's a unique kind of cricket where endurance is absolutely required to succeed in this format. For example, Brian Lara's 400* and Pup's 329* or some 10-wicket haul like Graeme Swann, Saeed Ajmal, Flintoff, Tremlett, Finn, etc.

I don't think that Test cricket will end, because the crowds still appear no matter what. However, it will be interesting to see if Ireland can succeed in Test format by playing some Test against "A" teams of several nations like England, Australia, etc.
 

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Was a pretty good write up, especially coming from someone who watched test cricket for the first time. I'm a bit a skeptical about test crickets future, and particularly India's influence and younger generation coming through.

The article got me thinking about why I love test cricket, and in the end it probably just comes down to being raised with it, like Vegemite. You can't expect foreigners to understand it or accept it. But that's partly what makes it do great. Like Aussie Rules football. I just hope test cricket survives this current revolution.
 

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I think you missed the joke.

Good article, had to laugh at Blofeld dishing out advice on the perils of the drunken message. Thought he overplayed the whole modernity thing though - his allusion to the way everything in American sport is prepackaged, so you're constantly being told how to feel, was more convincing.
 
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