Cricket thread

[AndyRM]

T10 has more commercial appeal than T50. T50 of course got depreciated by The Hundred, that being yet another T20 of sorts.

How's that then? It's playground/schoolkid stuff. And totally uncompetitive: win the toss, bat second, you're likely to win. Be as well playing French cricket competitively.

 

[Beebo]

some quality T10 bowling on show here?


View: https://dai.ly/x7er8pd

He’s chucking those pies.

 

[albion]

How's that then? It's playground/schoolkid stuff. And totally uncompetitive: win the toss, bat second, you're likely to win. Be as well playing French cricket competitively.

Just like T20. 'Not real cricket'

 

[AndyRM]

Just like T20. 'Not real cricket'

The IPL and Big Bash leagues killed the notion that T20 isn't real cricket some time ago, which I may not like but there we go.

T10 is like a dream someone came up with, thought he'd take a punt on putting it forward and nearly passed out laughing when the ICC took him seriously.

 

[albion]

T20 got cricket into the Olympics and the USA. It is a close relative of T10.

 

[AndyRM]

T20 got cricket into the Olympics and the USA. It is a close relative of T10.

Cricket has been played in the USA long before T20. I know they had their summer tournament this year, which lasted for two weeks and nobody cared about.

T10 is basically T20s young children jumping around, high on sugar going "Oooohhh, can I have a go!?"

Meanwhile, things are delicately poised with Pakistan and South Africa. I reckon Pakistan will need close to 400, 350 at least to have a hope, but they're losing wickets. Good game so far!

 

[AndyRM]

270 all out in the end. Half of those will probably go to de Kock.

 

[albion]

De Kock did much better in the inaugural season final of Major League Cricket.
MLC will be massive if very the 1st season is anything to go by.

 

[AndyRM]

MLC will never be massive. The average attendance was 3,000, which is pitiful by US standards.

Even football, which has been trying for years hasn't managed to get anywhere near the support of MLB, NFL, NHL or NBA.

Might get a get a few fans but it'll be seen as a novelty and nothing more.

 

[albion]

Rofl

3,000 was fantatastic considering the stadiums are in the planning stages.

 

[AndyRM]

Not really. A total of 70,000 over 19 matches? That really is laughable.

 

[Alex321]

Rofl

3,000 was fantatastic considering the stadiums are in the planning stages.

When you consider association football, still very much seen as a minority sport in the US, got average attendances of 22,000 this year in the MLS, 3,000 really is not many. And the MLB average attendance was just over 30,000.

 

[albion]

Maybe they could have opted to shoulder carry to double capacities.
Next year they have 3 stadiums for the 2024 World Cup and I assume 2028 Olympics.

Quite a change to the old 'what a wonderful cure for insomnia' headline.

 

[AndyRM]

Looks like South Africa are going to win this pretty easily. Pakistan are such a hot and cold team.

 

[AndyRM]

Building stadiums doesn't mean it's going to be popular. It's being co hosted in the West Indies too, where cricketing popularity has been on the decline for two decades, ironically enough knackered by T20 and players preferring other sports such as football, athletics and basketball.

If a once mighty powerhouse of cricket can't get interest in the game, what chance does the USA have? None. They'll end up with has-been players looking for a payout. A model which kind of works for MLS because at least folk have actually heard of the players.

Anyway, I was having a chat about the lack of crowds with an Indian pal last night. After he'd stopped laughing at me, he pointed out that the BCCI aren't really bothered, such is the money spinner they've created with the IPL. Hard to argue with that now that he's pointed it out.

I suppose it all comes down to personal preference, but I do think the attention span argument is a poor one: folk will happily watch hour after hour of tennis, golf, snooker (off the top of my head).