Cricket - Twenty20
02 June 2009, 10:40 PM
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Cricket - Twenty20
Time for the teams to drag out the pyjamas and hit the ball as hard as they can without a thought for tactics 
Cricket for those with no attention span
It does hold a certain attraction, not least for the fact that it's a cup that Australia probably won't win
Cricket for those with no attention span
It does hold a certain attraction, not least for the fact that it's a cup that Australia probably won't win
03 June 2009, 12:59 AM
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I just dont know who's going to win this, maybe SA or Ind, with Eng being the dark horses.
Normally you'd look forward to a World Cup but tbh it's just getting in the way of the Ashes !!
Normally you'd look forward to a World Cup but tbh it's just getting in the way of the Ashes !!
03 June 2009, 01:00 AM
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Test Match cricket used to be my favourite form but with more and more flat pitches being produced and no fast and 'lively' ones any more I much prefer Twenty20 and the one dayers. If Test Match cricket is to get back to its glory days it needs to liven up the pitches and all the teams (especially the West Indies) need pace attacks as good as those of 10+ years ago. Until they do Twenty20 will continue to be the in thing.
03 June 2009, 06:56 AM
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I'd beg to differ, in the W.I they will always prepare a track that gives their woefully inadequate side a chance of the draw, and ocassionally in Pak and Ind they will have ridiculous tracks where each team will amass 600+ and the game is dead after 3 days,but in the main I believe most pitches are now prepared for a result, especially in the past 10-15 years. Previous to then a lot of tracks were dead and there were more draws.
Test Cricket is still where it's at imo, admitedly the majority of the general public will never be able to sit through all 5 days so the short form of the game is where the money and the sponsors will be because it will always attract bums on seats.
I enjoy all three forms of the game but I remember the last one day world cup, towards the end it was getting to be too much and I needed a test match just to get back to the basics.
I can see 20/20 taking up a 2 innings format one day maybe 25 overs each innings.
Good to see KP back, albeit against Sco but he was hitting it well and looked refreshed
Test Cricket is still where it's at imo, admitedly the majority of the general public will never be able to sit through all 5 days so the short form of the game is where the money and the sponsors will be because it will always attract bums on seats.
I enjoy all three forms of the game but I remember the last one day world cup, towards the end it was getting to be too much and I needed a test match just to get back to the basics.
I can see 20/20 taking up a 2 innings format one day maybe 25 overs each innings.
Good to see KP back, albeit against Sco but he was hitting it well and looked refreshed
03 June 2009, 08:45 AM
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Fair enough but I remember watching test matches where the ball would rise off a length and wizz past the batsman's ears having them ducking and diving all over the place. That doesn't happen any more because the safety aspect has gone over the top and pitches are rolled flat as a pancake. I think this reflects on what bowlers today can be compared to the likes of Ambrose, Walsh, Donald, Akram, Younis, Dev, Hadlee, Alderman etc? None I can think of. Plenty of fast bowlers out there but none of them get the ball to go like the aforementioned and for me much of that is down to the dull lifeless pitches. I'm a bowler at heart not a batsman and for me seeing the likes of Ambrose and Walsh steaming in was about as good as it could get.
03 June 2009, 09:25 AM
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I remember going to see Trueman and Statham as a pair, and, later, Lillee and Thompson...........Thommo was probably one of the most lethal bowlers I've see, on his day, quicker than anyone, and all off a short run-up.
I'd really like to see Simon Jones fit and back in the England line-up.
I'd really like to see Simon Jones fit and back in the England line-up.
03 June 2009, 09:50 AM
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Good point, I also think the batsmen are protected with whats considered a bouncer these days, plus you can only bowl two a over and one an over for 1 dayers and 20/20 
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Looks like the West Indies have given up already
They are only helping to build up our boys confidence before The Ashes which isn't a bad thing.
Looks like Symonds has been sent home for "discipline" reasons and won't feature in The Ashes. They already have a weak squad and this just makes our chances look better and better
They are only helping to build up our boys confidence before The Ashes which isn't a bad thing.
Looks like Symonds has been sent home for "discipline" reasons and won't feature in The Ashes. They already have a weak squad and this just makes our chances look better and better
04 June 2009, 02:06 PM
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He wasn't selected for the Ashes 16
The guy has some serious issues, and serious debts, but I think he was stitched up by Cricket Aus, he had a big pay packet in India and they called him up for the one day series against PAK which was a bit out of the blue, on the morning of the Ashes selection Ponting is all over the media lording him up and you'd think it was a shoes in.
3 hours later sorry mate you're not wanted, work that out, seems personal to me.
A popular story down here is, there was a charity auction and one of the lots was a day sea fishing with Symonds on his boat, they say the mystery highest bidder was Symonds as he didn't want to take anyone out lol.
He has his demons sadly.
Mind you the general feeling from the locals is the team is shit and Ponting' a crap captain and an unpleasant bloke which suprised me even with all those runs he's not held in such high esteem as I you have imagined.
I think I'll have a patriotic £5.00 on England
and IND smashed PAK £5.00 on India for some interest 
The guy has some serious issues, and serious debts, but I think he was stitched up by Cricket Aus, he had a big pay packet in India and they called him up for the one day series against PAK which was a bit out of the blue, on the morning of the Ashes selection Ponting is all over the media lording him up and you'd think it was a shoes in.
3 hours later sorry mate you're not wanted, work that out, seems personal to me.
A popular story down here is, there was a charity auction and one of the lots was a day sea fishing with Symonds on his boat, they say the mystery highest bidder was Symonds as he didn't want to take anyone out lol.
He has his demons sadly.
Mind you the general feeling from the locals is the team is shit and Ponting' a crap captain and an unpleasant bloke which suprised me even with all those runs he's not held in such high esteem as I you have imagined.
I think I'll have a patriotic £5.00 on England
and IND smashed PAK £5.00 on India for some interest
06 June 2009, 12:56 PM
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I am still a bit shell shocked. When I find the man that Broad from the kids netball team and put him on the England Twenty20 team I will be having words.
06 June 2009, 01:59 PM
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07 June 2009, 01:20 AM
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yep have to admit that prat ponting got his **** handed to him on a plate. see what happen when you lay off the ganja. gale was superb and that 6, **** me, dhl will be returning it tomorrow
With such big hitters they never even started 
07 June 2009, 10:21 PM
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You know me, I do it for the Arsenal games, say we are going to get a drubbing and then we go and put in a great performance I didn't get the Pakistanis today, hopeless fielding and lacklustre batting when they are normally very good - they obviously don't like the cold weather like the Windies 
We played much better as well but would never have expected it to be that easy 
I didn't get the Pakistanis today, hopeless fielding and lacklustre batting when they are normally very good - they obviously don't like the cold weather like the Windies We played much better as well but would never have expected it to be that easy