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Redford said:
Agree. Cricket has been in trouble for a long time and continues to lose relevance to a lot of people. I used to love cricket as a kid. Loved test cricket and one day cricket right up until the early 2000’s before the whole sport got bastardised with too many forms, too many games, too many players.

Plus, in a globalised world where kids are tuned into the best basketballers, best footballers etc in the ENTIRE world, what does Australia playing minnow countries like WI, NZ, Sri Lanka etc really mean ? Not much to me. It’s a very very marginalised sport nowadays in a proper global sense. Not sure of it’s relevance. Losing popularity overseas big time as well, not just Australia.

Appreciate the Indians love all forms and games of it, and others in Australia still do as well, but I’m part of a very large quota of people who have tuned out. Only cricket I have an interest in now is test cricket between Australia/SA/England/India.
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Amen to this. I used to live for the summer of cricket. Used to be across Sheffield Shield. Now it’s test cricket and marginal interest in World Cup shorter formats. But I prefer a test like this one then meaningless runs on a freeway. Travis Heads 90 odd is worth 250. He is a lot better player than I thought bit of Mike Hussey to him.
 
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Scoop said:
Amen to this. I used to live for the summer of cricket. Used to be across Sheffield Shield. Now it’s test cricket and marginal interest in World Cup shorter formats. But I prefer a test like this one then meaningless runs on a freeway. Travis Heads 90 odd is worth 250. He is a lot better player than I thought bit of Mike Hussey to him.
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Agree with this as well. I used to love Sheffield Shield cricket too. Always knew what teams were playing well, who was scoring what, who was taking wickets etc.

And yes, even though it was a 2 day farce, this test today was still more interesting and relevant than most of the others against all these minnow states and all the phoney, fake and contrived other forms of cricket like T20.

All up, international cricket plays to a very very narrow long term, continually competitive spectrum. Australia, India, England, SA. That’s about it. I think people question whether that’s really all that meaningful now given the truly global expansion and touch that other sports like football, basketball, golf, F1 etc now have with people. Geez, most kids now even have a favourite NFL team they follow !

Cricket’s been marginalised big time in Australia the last 25 years.
 
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Redford said:
Agree with this as well. I used to love Sheffield Shield cricket too. Always knew what teams were playing well, who was scoring what, who was taking wickets etc.

And yes, even though it was a 2 day farce, this test today was still more interesting and relevant than most of the others against all these minnow states and all the phoney, fake and contrived other forms of cricket like T20.

All up, international cricket plays to a very very narrow long term, continually competitive spectrum. Australia, India, England, SA. That’s about it. I think people question whether that’s really all that meaningful now given the truly global expansion and touch that other sports like football, basketball, golf, F1 etc now have with people. Geez, most kids now even have a favourite NFL team they follow !

Cricket’s been marginalised big time in Australia the last 25 years.
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Looks like you're out of the 'abyss' now in the US. Feast of sports to follow even if it is freezing cold.
 
Cricket has marginalised itself with way too many games which have absolutely no importance, the result is an irrelevancy.

Test cricket really is the only one that matters and rather than trying to run cricket in such a way that they use irrelevant games to fund the real thing, they need to concentrate more on the tests, give them more air.

I occasionally look up the Shield results in the paper but don't really know who is knocking on the door of test selection these days.

It is a real problem, test cricket can be a wonderful sport, even 1 day cricket has its attraction. I really have no interest in 20/20. Cricket needs to stop being afraid of test cricket.

DS
 
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DavidSSS said:
Cricket has marginalised itself with way too many games which have absolutely no importance, the result is an irrelevancy.

Test cricket really is the only one that matters and rather than trying to run cricket in such a way that they use irrelevant games to fund the real thing, they need to concentrate more on the tests, give them more air.

I occasionally look up the Shield results in the paper but don't really know who is knocking on the door of test selection these days.

It is a real problem, test cricket can be a wonderful sport, even 1 day cricket has its attraction. I really have no interest in 20/20. Cricket needs to stop being afraid of test cricket.

DS
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In the days of the newspaper, I also loved looking at the District cricket scores on Monday mornings. Paul Reiffel with the Tiges, Dav Whatmore at Prahran, Deano at Carlton etc...
 
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TigerForce said:
In the days of the newspaper, I also loved looking at the District cricket scores on Monday mornings. Paul Reiffel with the Tiges, Dav Whatmore at Prahran, Deano at Carlton etc...
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I still get the newspaper every day, delivered, maybe that's my problem!

DS
 
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Haaarrgh. Had to laugh at Elgar's pre game comments about the green mamba over in Jaapie land n how they didn't mind a bit of a green top. Got chewed up n spat out at the Gabbatoir.


While I must admit that there was a smidge of overload in the juice left in the wicket, I'm more than happy that both teams had to deal with pretty much identical conditions.
Sick to death of cricket pitches that are flat dry boring roads n the bowlers have to bust their arses to try n take a wicket or two while the batsmen pad their averages without much risk of having to work hard.
Good bowlers need the chance to be rewarded for their work once in a while n mediocre batsmen shouldn't be entitled to look like champions just for turning up.
 
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Higgsy...geez there's an old name just remembered. Great spinner for the Vics too.
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Yallop. Ray Bright. Gavin Holland as well. Ian Hewett, Arnberger, Cameron White, Albers etc

Geoff Parker played for Richmond. He’s now National recruiting manager at Port Adelaide. Geez he was a good footy player too.
 
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Redford said:
Yallop. Ray Bright. Gavin Holland as well. Ian Hewett, Arnberger, Cameron White, Albers etc

Geoff Parker played for Richmond. He’s now National recruiting manager at Port Adelaide. Geez he was a good footy player too.
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Was Ian Redpath at South Melb?
 
TigerForce said:
I wanted a County Cricket bat. :))
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Quick story..
My old man made me make my first 50 with the club's kit bat before he'd buy me one of my own. Tough, stingy bastard.:LOL:;)
When I went to the sports shop with him though & had the pick of the bats on the wall..the County stood out like a beacon with it's beautiful natural grain.
That was mine & I bloody treasured that bat.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
Quick story..
My old man made me make my first 50 with the club's kit bat before he'd buy me one of my own. Tough, stingy bastard.:LOL:;)
When I went to the sports shop with him though & had the pick of the bats on the wall..the County stood out like a beacon with it's beautiful natural grain.
That was mine & I bloody treasured that bat.
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Being a kid, it was the look and feel I loved.
 
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TigerForce said:
Didn't mind the SS ones, but I wanted a County Cricket bat. :))
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I used Gray Nicholls. I even had a 4 Scoop ! Found GN were the best balanced bats. The single scoop was revolutionary. What a bat.

But funny, I always used to reckon Duncan Fearnley’s had the best willow though. Very soft. Beautiful dead, soft feel off the bat. They were terrible around the splice though. Always breaking.
 
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Good innings by Finch to get the Renegades home. Pity he couldn't play that way for Australia towards the end.
 
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Redford said:
I used Gray Nicholls. I even had a 4 Scoop ! Found GN were the best balanced bats. The single scoop was revolutionary. What a bat.

But funny, I always used to reckon Duncan Fearnley’s had the best willow though. Very soft. Beautiful dead, soft feel off the bat. They were terrible around the splice though. Always breaking.
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Bats breaking at the neck were my sooking days....
 
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