/cric/

England 8/240
vs Sri Lanka

first for anime

atleast you used a new image I guess

cricket is gay

Just woke up lads

PLEASE

Back to /bundes/ fag

kys threadcunt

How many overs will they play today if it stays dry?

He unironically only watches t20. There is a Swiss guy who does the same thing.

At most 50 each you fucking fool.

>not understanding how ODIs work
>britbong education

Just 1 more m8

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i'm actually half-watching the test atm

Will they is an actor m8

about 90

How many are england gonna get lads? I'm going for a cheeky 280 with bairstow giving it a bit of tonk

90 overs is standard but they can extend it by 30 mins at the end to make up for lost time yesterday

so the answer is 90+how ever many they can bowl in 30 mins

>bit of tonk

You sound like a massive poofter m8

If Finn or Blanderson can hang around I'd back Basedstow tog et them to 300

At least he's not an aussie though tbqh

>half-watching
You sound like a proper poofter m8

how long is the lunch break?

>Tony Cozier

F

10 hours m8

Where's Trini bro?Are there many white Caribbeans like Tony Cozier?

40mins

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lunchtime slags time lads

saved

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based hammers

One of the trinidad lads said he hadn't seen a white girl until he island hopped as a teenager

PROGRESSIVE

ENGLAND'S
BRAVE
JONNY
BAIRSTOW

Might go to maccas lads

slags

>cropping the caption

Any one else into assjob porn?

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get a HSP lad

I don't like highly sensitive people m8

"Girl" on the left looks like a fat sack of potatoes, yuck

really need this without the shitty watermark

here

>I watched Fire in Babylon and I want to emulate that

absolutely based

here m8

Based Holding dropping elite truth bombs

Did he finally realise he's senile?

found a bigger version

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Why do Aussies have such an obsession with Elyse Toomua?

she's my gf

you are slipping to the quality level of posting shown by your compatriots on normanbook and twitter, sanjay

Lets face it no one cares about Test cricket. The crowds are shit, the TV ratings are shit, and no one wants to watch a 30 hour match. This is why no one attends the Sheffield Shield. Because watching a 24-hour game spread over 4 days is boring as bat shit.

Can you imagine if T20 was the only form of the game for 150 years and someone said:

"Hey I have an idea, we will invent a new form of cricket. Instead of the current 3 hour game which has gone for 150 years, we make it go for 30 hours, spread over 5 days. Each team bats twice and if the match isn't finished, we just call it a "no result"

Yeah, I'm sure such an exciting conept would be a winner.

T20 is the game that cricket should always have been. And a club based concept is the way to go. Hopefully, over the next coupep of decades, Tests and one-dayers are relegated to the histroy books.

Both tests and one-dayers should never have been invented in the first place. They are the "wrong" way to play cricket. It has taken 150 years for people to work out the T20 is actally the real way to play cricket. It's the game we play in backyards and in schools.

That's Poomua to you faggot

reminder that Poomua LITERALLY browses au/sp/

Goosey, you here m8?

About to hit up Icecrown Citadel if you're in

Is this game not on "our" sky sports?

Cricket is so traditional, that people just have their head in the sand.

The fact the each day of the Hobart Test drew no more than 4,000 people doens't seem to matter, to these people that have never bothered to think outside the square.

The facts are the outside Australia and England (lets face it outside of Boxing day really) people don't attend, watch or care about the long form of the game.

Shield matches are attended by two men and a dog. It's true. Deal with it. No one goes.

Why does no one go? Why? Because people are not interestd in watching a 4-day game played over 24 hours.

If T20 was jsut "cricket" and it was the only way it had even been for 150 years, we would have a fabulous thriving domestic summer sport, instead of the crap we've had for 100 years where we essentially have two international teams playing against each other for the whole summer, with no "end point" of "Grand Final" or season culmination to aspire to. Who wants to watch that? There is no point or meaning to it.

Dealing with cricket traditionalists is a bit like dealing with religious fundamentalists. They have their head stuck in the snad and have never been able to "think outside the square" about how cricket should have always been played.

I know I'm right, and over the next couple of decades, you will see that for yourselves. If you want to continue following Shield matches that no one cares about, in front of 200 people or test matches in front of 4,000 people per day, then do it. The rest of the country will be following the true form of cricket (T20) that should have bene the way cricket was invented 150 years ago. That's the game we play in schools and backyards and on the street. Only about 60 living Australians have ever played a 5 day game.

If you disagree.... "sell" your opionion to me. "Sell" to me why tests are so great, and while you are selling them to me, you had better explain why no one wants to attend them anymore.

ABSOLUMENT DEGOUTANT

>bait this obvious

not sure if pasta but I enjoy the long forms of the game including t20

I will continue to watch cricket in all forms for as long as it lasts/I live

test cricket is the premier form of the game because it is the truest test of skill, endurance and mental ability.

Test cricket is more akin a game of chess, and people who are genuine fans of the sport enjoy that aspect of it. By comparison T20 is pretty much just a fireworks display. Able to be enjoyed by people with no interest or knowledge in the subject for a short time.

Test cricket is a sport, a competition, a genuine battle between two opponents. T20 is just flukey and flashy but without substance.

Test cricket:
Batsman must maintain concentration for extended periods often in trying conditions (heat etc) because one mistake means disaster. They have to decide how much of a tradeoff to take between scoring runs and conserving their wicket. They walk a fine line between playing a good shot, and making the small mistake and getting out. Sometimes they have to be able to handle changing conditions, both good and bad. True cricket fans appreciate this skill.

Bowlers in test cricket are all about taking wickets, but depending on the state of the game, might have to do so whilst conserving runs. They have lots of time to strategically plan how to get an opponent out, a batsman who in test cricket will be fighting to keep his wicket as a priority at all costs (unless it's Haddin). They must also walk a fine line between attack and defence, they have to try and get the batsman out because a dot ball does them little good in test cricket, they bowl on all sorts of surfaces, with balls of varying condition, often for very long spells throughout a day, whilst having to maintain aggression and speed. Test bowling is a display of endurance, mental toughness, strategy, and ability.

Captains in test cricket have to assess their situation at any stage of the day. Playing conditions, match state, player injury/fatigue, team-mates strengths, oppositions weaknesses all must come into their thoughts...

They have pretty much free choice of the field at any stage of the innings and so the balance between attacking fielders to get wickets and defensive fielders to save runs is completely up to them. Strategic things like the toss and declarations etc can have huge effects on the game. They have to think about all these things, often under tough conditions for an extended time of the game. In test cricket if you aren't on it all the time, a chance could go begging.

T20:
Batsmen: Swing bat wildly at ball because getting out pretty much doesn't matter (see Bad Haddin). Bad shots go for edges through where the slips should be, pitches are flat and consistent.
Bowlers: Bowl yorkers and slower balls with the sole intention of saving runs, bowl a maximum of 4 overs.
Captains: Fielding restrictions early in the innings, and then spread the field. Bowlers can only bowl 4 overs each so no management or flexibility available to the captain.

T20 is just a shallow, empty, downright dumb mutation of cricket.

ODI are my favourite form of cricket
T20 is too big bash focused and trying to prove that cricket is a spectacle sport
Tests are just too long. You watch the highlights on the news and you literally didn't miss a bit of it. If they imposed something to keep it a little bit more active than 2 runs an over then it might be better. They could make tests better if they wanted to but they just don't care

He's not trolling, guys. He means it.

Fact is that if 20/20 cricket had started all that time ago, it would be just like baseball, i.e. good, but nothing special or unique.

The thing that sets Test and First Class cricket apart is that it's a soap opera as much as it's a sport. It is a totally unique entity in the sporting landscape.

You wanted an argument, well here it is. The crux of your argument is that if 20/20 was how it had always been, nobody in their right mind would think going to Test cricket would be a good idea. This, I agree with. But that doesn't make people in their right mind correct. Test cricket is insane, and we love it for that. Despite all of the conventional wisdom about attention spans, about what makes sport popular, Test cricket ignores it and provides something totally unique.

What I find particularly interesting is that in your little scenario, you mention that 20/20 would make cricket the second most popular sport in the world, behind soccer. Well guess what? Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world ANYWAY, and that is totally on the back of Test cricket. That is why you are wrong. Because in spite of the fact that Test cricket flies in the face of conventional wisdom, it has still been incredibly successful.

20/20, then, seems incomparable. It's a different sport. It's not worse, necessarily (it's a very young sport, and I agree with you that with time, it may develop complexities that rival other 2-3 hour games that have existed for much longer), or better, but fundamentally different. I'd be more inclined to compare 20/20 with footy than with Test cricket.

To use an analogy, 20/20 is a film, Test cricket is a season of a TV series, with each session an episode. One does not compete with the other, and they entertain in very different ways.

Yikes, Anderson will be a nightmare in these conditions

should I watch this or the italian moto gp

>italian moto gp
sounds fucking terrible

looks like a pretty flat headingly wicket to me DESU

ball's moving a lot tbf

a lot of people have got themselves out with poor shots, root and cook in particular

>test cricket is like chess

No its like monopoly drags on too long and everyone just calls it a draw at the end of a too long period of time.

Chess is fast paced and incredibly strategic game where a small one more decision early on can win or lose you the game. Every turn in chess has substance and is influential to the end result of the game. In tests you can have several overs were literally nothing happens "battle between bowler and batsman" meme is shit call it what it is a stalemate, the batsman is waiting for the bowler to make a mistake so he can get a run and the bowler is waiting for the batsman to make a mistake so he can get a wicket.

based statschink

war of attrition
low scoring matches on green tops are based

>Chess is fast paced

I have no problem with long low scoring games. I have a problem with people saying it's a battle and other bullshit when it's literally opposition waiting for the other to slip up. The "meta" for lack of a better word in test cricket is stale. The winning formula is clear and well known. The sport needs something to be injected into it to keep it alive and shake up the "meta" so we don't have these shit stalemates anymore. Just changing the scoring so that there is no draw at the end unless both teams score the exact same number of runs could be enough. Teams do seem too content with getting non results and that is a problem that is easy to fix imo

Not him

Good shot

BASED BAIRSTOW

so rare to see someone who can score runs to all parts of the ground

>The winning formula is clear and well known
this is literally incorrect

T20 and ODI cricket have been reduced to a formula, test games are always subject to the weather, meme declarations or two autists ala VVS and Dravid

>so rare to see someone who can score runs to all parts of the ground

How unfit is this englishman

He looks out of breath constantly

Looks like someone choked the life out of him

A certain bitchwide johnmeme a year ago

It's 1877, and the touring English side is about to play their first Test match against Australia. On a whim, both captains agree to codify the rules for the sport of cricket. A match will not continue indefinately until there is a winner, but will instead go for 40 overs - 20 overs per side.

This radical concept was new, but both captains agreed, that they would be the new rules of the sport.

The tour was a resounding success, with good crowds attending, with many spruiking the faster, exciting nature of the game, with the result all over in about 3 hours.

15 years later, at the conclusion of the tour 1892 tour, Lord Sheffield donated £150 to the New South Wales Cricket Association to fund a trophy for an annual tournament of intercolonial cricket in Australia. The three colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia were already playing each other in ad hoc matches of the three hour game, which now was the only way the game was played. The new tournament commenced in the summer of 1892/93, mandating home and away fixtures between each colony each season. The three teams competed for the Sheffield Shield.

This competition was a resounding success, and as the years went by Queensland, and Western Australia were added. The crowds boomed with attendances rivalling that of the newly formed Victorian Football League. People couldn't get enough of cricket. This 3-hour bat and ball sport was proving to be incredibly popular. Soon, it was mooted that new teams be added from the existing states to develop into a club competiton similar to the Summer to what the VFL was to the Winter.

but theres a very good argument to suggest test cricket is a battle, the simple fact that a single mistake can see your innings (and in many cases your test) done, creates an enormous psychological battle
While i can appreciate a lot of drawn tests (mainly the sub-continent) can be boring, they attempted to remedy that with timeless tests and by all accounts it was an abject failure

As the years went by, the tours by the English team would still be made, but they were less frequent as the English had their own successful club competiton back home which was proving to be just as popular as the Australian version. Tours were still made, but the focus of the summer, was on the domestic competition, with international matches being enourmous events, but but not the backbone of the Summer.

By the 1930's the Sheffield Shield had 3 teams from Victoria, 4 from NSW, and one each from Qld, SA and WA.

Due to the exciting nature of the game, the United States had started to play it on the East Coast due to the British Colonial influence. Someone had tried to start a sport called "baseball" there in the late 1890's but cricket was proving too popular. Canada was a similar story with the locals loving the game of cricket.

As the years went by, more and more countries started playing cricket. By the start of the 1970's more than 60 countries were regular particiapants with strong local leagues.

Fast forward to 2010, and the Sheffield Sheild is in its 119th season. There are 16 teams, with two from WA, two from SA, 3 from Melbourne, one from Geelong, 3 from Sydney, one from Newcastle, two from Brisbane, one from North Queensland, and one from Tasmania. The season goes from October through to March with each side playing 30 matches (playing each team twice) with the top 6 contesting the finals series, with the two Grand Finalists making the Champions League.

About 70 other countries have similarly strong leagues, with the American league comprising 32 teams, and being the dominant summer sport in the USA. One of the biggest issues of the day is many of Australia's better players leave the country to pursue lucrative club careers in India, America, and even Europe. A limit of how many "foreign" players can play for a club side in a different country is introduced to keep leagues like the Australian league strong.

Once every four years, a World Cup is held. Every Summer the best of the Australian cricketers come home to particpate in World Cup Qualifying matches, with these matches being held in between the domestic matches, with the big World Cup tournament itself being held in a different country once every 4 years. England are not the only touring side anymore. In fact, it is not surprising for Australia, in any given Summer of World Cup qualifying to play teams from South America and Europe. The World Cup itself it the 2nd biggest event in the world behind the Soccer World Cup.

A lucrative Champions League tournament is held annually also, which generates massive amounts of money, with the top teams in the various World Club competitions participating.

The head of the ICC in 2010-11, John Smith sits down to with the rest of the executives to discuss the future of cricket, after the season has just ended. It is April 1st, and now that March was over, the MCG is to be used for the AFL for the next 6 months. The sport of cricket was so popular around the world, that they were all pretty content with the status of things. One of the younger executives suggested an idea:

Based Dan26

Young Executive: "How about we introduce a new form of the game"

Smith: "That an intriguing idea. Personally I'm a traditionalist, and I like the traditional and only form of the sport. But what is your idea?"

Young Executive: "Well, what if we introduced a longer form of the game?"

Smith: "Longer? The game goes for three hours already. Name a sport that goes longer? A game of American Football maybe but that's it. The sport is long enough as it is"

Young Executive: "Well, what I was thinking, was what if both teams had TWO innings"

Smith: "What's the point of that?"

Young Executive: "For the novelty and excitement. And teams don't bat for 20 overs, they can just bat on and on and on...a whole day will go for 6 hours, so they could bat for two days, 12 hours, in theory."

Laughter circulates around the room

Smith: "Are you serious, young fella? And how long does the match go for?"

Young Executive: "For 5 days"

Smith: "Hahahaha.... Oh my God, you're actually serious? 30 friggin hours? But what if the match isn't decided in 5 days?"

Young Executive: "Well, we simply call it a no result. No one wins or loses"

Smith: "So, it's like a tie?"

Young Executive: "Well, not really. A tie is when scores are level. It's just a no result. I estimate a no-result might happen about one-third of the time"

Smith: "Look, I'm sorry, but is this some kind of joke? Sounds like a good way to make sure people don't turn up. Havn't you noticed that people turn up to our sport? Why would we change that. We have the best game in the world."

Young Executive: "Do you know what date it is, sir?"

Smith: "Yes, it's April the firs...oh wait... you got me! haha"

Young Executive: "April Fools! You didn't think I was serious did you! I'd have to be a moron to suggest such a preposterous idea!"

The board of the ICC had a few laughs then got back to the business of governing the World's second biggest sport, behind Soccer.

WHY IS ERANGA SO SHIT

Objectively the best shot ive ever seen a "#11" play lel

He's trying his best

He needs to try harder

test draws are dying out mate, curators can't away with roads anymore

have you even been watching cricket over the last few years? GTFO

Based jonny

I was making a cup of tea and missed it

Holy shit, this elite truth bomb

Will """test""" """"""cricket"""""" ever recover?

Chameera's line is dogshit

The death of test cricket fan fiction might be the most troubling thing I've ever read. I hope it's pasta

whipped one from outside off stump through midwicket for 4