T’krikkit

So he got a century then😁
Anyway great result and a 10 wicket haul for Carse.
Very encouraging and much improved. More of the same please.

Tricky to get 100 when only chasing 104...

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

Tricky to get 100 when only chasing 104...

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Cricket thread and Tricky gets in it! Is their no limit to his infiltration?? 🙄

Hasn’t got any better with the Champions Trophy then. Bit embarrassing really. Feel sorry for Jos Buttler, leaving the captaincy under a bit of a cloud. It hasn’t worked out and we need a real rethink regarding 50/limited over cricket, but no one should forget JB’s achievements and I hope this isn’t the end of him as an international batsman.

(a) Salt needs to rethink his 50 over approach (b) Smith experiment at #3 looks to be a failure (c) in Indian subcontinent the reliance on 2 injury prone quicks is not strategically sound (d) missing a Plunkett like quick for middle overs control - maybe Cause will develop here (e) who succeeds Adil Rashid - won't be of same quality for sure (f) Livingstone wasted at 7

But where are the next group of players coming from. No one plays domestic level 50 over cricket much mainly due to the introduction of the execrable 100: and now that has been sold off to external investors that's not going to be scrapped any time soon.

I can only see the marginalization of the 50 over game, which, as a fan, I've always liked. It's not all the crash and bang of T20 nor the sometimes turgid test arena. It's still a result in a day game which retains the disciplines of tight bowling and solid batting, rather than slogging and defensive wide bowling.

So 50 overs seems sadly doomed as an international format. Thanks to TV, money, advertisers, greed, call it what you will. It's another victim of the monetisation of sport and generations of supporters who want instant gratification. The sport has truly been americanised.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

(a) Salt needs to rethink his 50 over approach (b) Smith experiment at #3 looks to be a failure (c) in Indian subcontinent the reliance on 2 injury prone quicks is not strategically sound (d) missing a Plunkett like quick for middle overs control - maybe Cause will develop here (e) who succeeds Adil Rashid - won't be of same quality for sure (f) Livingstone wasted at 7

But where are the next group of players coming from. No one plays domestic level 50 over cricket much mainly due to the introduction of the execrable 100: and now that has been sold off to external investors that's not going to be scrapped any time soon.

I can only see the marginalization of the 50 over game, which, as a fan, I've always liked. It's not all the crash and bang of T20 nor the sometimes turgid test arena. It's still a result in a day game which retains the disciplines of tight bowling and solid batting, rather than slogging and defensive wide bowling.

So 50 overs seems sadly doomed as an international format. Thanks to TV, money, advertisers, greed, call it what you will. It's another victim of the monetisation of sport and generations of supporters who want instant gratification. The sport has truly been americanised.

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Hence my dwindling interest in anything other than Test Cricket which many find boring but imo is still the No 1.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

(a) Salt needs to rethink his 50 over approach (b) Smith experiment at #3 looks to be a failure (c) in Indian subcontinent the reliance on 2 injury prone quicks is not strategically sound (d) missing a Plunkett like quick for middle overs control - maybe Cause will develop here (e) who succeeds Adil Rashid - won't be of same quality for sure (f) Livingstone wasted at 7

But where are the next group of players coming from. No one plays domestic level 50 over cricket much mainly due to the introduction of the execrable 100: and now that has been sold off to external investors that's not going to be scrapped any time soon.

I can only see the marginalization of the 50 over game, which, as a fan, I've always liked. It's not all the crash and bang of T20 nor the sometimes turgid test arena. It's still a result in a day game which retains the disciplines of tight bowling and solid batting, rather than slogging and defensive wide bowling.

So 50 overs seems sadly doomed as an international format. Thanks to TV, money, advertisers, greed, call it what you will. It's another victim of the monetisation of sport and generations of supporters who want instant gratification. The sport has truly been americanised.

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Spot on. Especially your thoughts on the virtues of the 50 over game.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

(a) Salt needs to rethink his 50 over approach (b) Smith experiment at #3 looks to be a failure (c) in Indian subcontinent the reliance on 2 injury prone quicks is not strategically sound (d) missing a Plunkett like quick for middle overs control - maybe Cause will develop here (e) who succeeds Adil Rashid - won't be of same quality for sure (f) Livingstone wasted at 7

But where are the next group of players coming from. No one plays domestic level 50 over cricket much mainly due to the introduction of the execrable 100: and now that has been sold off to external investors that's not going to be scrapped any time soon.

I can only see the marginalization of the 50 over game, which, as a fan, I've always liked. It's not all the crash and bang of T20 nor the sometimes turgid test arena. It's still a result in a day game which retains the disciplines of tight bowling and solid batting, rather than slogging and defensive wide bowling.

So 50 overs seems sadly doomed as an international format. Thanks to TV, money, advertisers, greed, call it what you will. It's another victim of the monetisation of sport and generations of supporters who want instant gratification. The sport has truly been americanised.

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Got it in 1. Cricket is missing real superstars today, that 90s/00s Aussie team would dominate, and I don't see any up and coming 05 ashes team on the horizon. A good opportunity for the smaller nations, maybe we'll see a resurgence of the West Indies.