my comment in response to Sambit Bal's article
Make Test cricket more elitist and still Test cricket will wither and die if they continue to play the game on the roads that masquerade as wickets these days.
If I have to watch a game on a road, I would rather waste 3 hours of my life watching a game with a definite result instead of spending 30 hours watching a bore fest.
And that is what Test cricket these days is.. Administrators want to maximize revenues ( gate, TV etc) and so would much rather the Test go the distance. Heck, the administrators at Cardiff did not even try to hide this fact when talking of the type of wicket that would be rolled.
And then there is the ICC with its own "blue print" for what is a good wicket. The Kanpur wicket gets called for having "excessive turn" when what we witnessed was a tight 3 day contest.
Deny people a contest and they will divert thier attention to something else.
T20 gives them a contest in an abbreviated time span. Test Cricket doesnt.
Good luck then saving Test cricket!
Friday, July 31, 2009
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6 comments:
Spot on. It's intensity of the contest that grips the crowd. Close drawsm like the one in Cardiff, is always better than predictable lop-sided wins like the ones Aussies were accustomed to in their heydays.
Homer,
Now a days really there is lack of people who actually come to witness cricket on stadium that's why they are starting Day-night so that people who don't get time in day time can come in night.And I have heard that ECB has included a Day Night Test series in their FTP with Bangladesh next year.
Som,
But Cardiff was a snoozefest till the last session of the last day. Hardly a crowd magnet!
Cheers,
Cricktonblog,
The Day Night test cricket idea wont fly. Mark my words!
Cheers,
Homer I agreee with you 100%.
Also enjoyed your last article on the test pitches.
But isn't laying the blame on India (partuclary the BCCI) much simpler?
Mankad,
Blaming India ha always been the case, irrespective of the matter on hand.
Maybe it is time for the BCCI to stick a finger at the ICC by unilaterally defining the nature of the wicket, ICC standards be damned.
Thanks for your comments and welcome to the blog.
Cheers,
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