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After having watched the Australian innings last night, I found myself becoming rather bored (as did most of you by the sound of the Aren't T20s Exciting thread). I didn't watch a single ball of the Indian innings. And to be honest, didn't even care about the result. It felt meaningless. Almost as if the game being a bit of fun reflected on the way I felt about the result.
Now this is coming from a 20 year old, who loved watching the big bash, I thought the Fox Sports team did a great job with that, I have watched T20s live and find them rather entertaining. But last night did nothing for me.
Firstly like everyone else I will take shot at the channel 9 team. Their hyperbole and pumping up went up three-fold from the Test matches. Now like many others I find them very hard to listen to during the Test matches, but last night rose to a whole new level of idiocy. The shouting and carrying on into the microphone caused a turn off more so than excitement, it was unbearable. It was all just over the top. Don't even mention the 'moneyball' rating, FFS any bloke in that side could hit a six, I don't care what the chances are of a player actually hitting one, because even though David Hussey hit a couple over the rope, he could barely get the rest off the square for the rest of the time, not that impressive if you ask me. They made a mockery of it last night.
Now to what I wanted to say, I am finding more and more, that I can sit through a whole five days of Test cricket, be it watching it if I can or listening to it if I don't have the chance. I can watch a ODI from start to finish no troubles. But T20 I am finding it's all getting a bit boring, it is the same thing over and over again, bowlers being given no leeway whatsoever so the batsmen have the greatest chance of hitting sixes for the viewers, batsmen hitting sixes is just not the same any more, it isn't a skill, with big bats, attempted yorkers into half volleys or pacemen putting pace on the ball for the batsmen, you can be Chris Martin (well maybe) and be able to hit a boundary or a six.
Test cricket and for a lesser part ODIs are much more skillful and thus why I believe particularly for International cricket's sake, T20 are a waste. I love the fact they have given the young guys a crack. But International cricket is about the most skilful players in your countries playing one another. So while T20 has some of it's own skill set, the ramp shot, the yorker, the full ball outside off, the slower ball that are applied all the time nowadays I don't find this entertaining, the novelty wore off.
Give me Ed Cowan battling a 50 on a green top pitch against quality quicks over a 50 blasted off a few balls by a bloke with a big bat. That is true skill, which is why Big Bash batting form never translated into Test form.
/End Rant
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Now this is coming from a 20 year old, who loved watching the big bash, I thought the Fox Sports team did a great job with that, I have watched T20s live and find them rather entertaining. But last night did nothing for me.
Firstly like everyone else I will take shot at the channel 9 team. Their hyperbole and pumping up went up three-fold from the Test matches. Now like many others I find them very hard to listen to during the Test matches, but last night rose to a whole new level of idiocy. The shouting and carrying on into the microphone caused a turn off more so than excitement, it was unbearable. It was all just over the top. Don't even mention the 'moneyball' rating, FFS any bloke in that side could hit a six, I don't care what the chances are of a player actually hitting one, because even though David Hussey hit a couple over the rope, he could barely get the rest off the square for the rest of the time, not that impressive if you ask me. They made a mockery of it last night.
Now to what I wanted to say, I am finding more and more, that I can sit through a whole five days of Test cricket, be it watching it if I can or listening to it if I don't have the chance. I can watch a ODI from start to finish no troubles. But T20 I am finding it's all getting a bit boring, it is the same thing over and over again, bowlers being given no leeway whatsoever so the batsmen have the greatest chance of hitting sixes for the viewers, batsmen hitting sixes is just not the same any more, it isn't a skill, with big bats, attempted yorkers into half volleys or pacemen putting pace on the ball for the batsmen, you can be Chris Martin (well maybe) and be able to hit a boundary or a six.
Test cricket and for a lesser part ODIs are much more skillful and thus why I believe particularly for International cricket's sake, T20 are a waste. I love the fact they have given the young guys a crack. But International cricket is about the most skilful players in your countries playing one another. So while T20 has some of it's own skill set, the ramp shot, the yorker, the full ball outside off, the slower ball that are applied all the time nowadays I don't find this entertaining, the novelty wore off.
Give me Ed Cowan battling a 50 on a green top pitch against quality quicks over a 50 blasted off a few balls by a bloke with a big bat. That is true skill, which is why Big Bash batting form never translated into Test form.
/End Rant
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