At least the cricket is interesting

[mickd1961]

I see your and Micks point
Technique has been sacrificed for entertainment
But I didn’t mind to a degree, especially the bad old days when you could see 6 bouncers and over, not massively entertaining

But I think we had a good balance in the 90s and early 00s with good attacking batsmen and some real cracking players with good solid technique

We do seem to have gone too far the other way

However other countries seem to be relishing it, India have a good mix of batsmen with good technique and flair, albeit no one with the sort of technique of a Dravid / Boycott type

Boycott scored 40 runs per 100 balls which is by no means a horrible rate for a test opener, Strauss only scored at just under 44 per 100 balls and he always seemed to be a positive opener.