Thread: Don't tell me I didn't try...

Originally Posted by bacicat

So, some here may know I'm an avid cricket lover - of the test match variety. Tonight I sat down to watch the T20 match between the Adelaide Strikers and the Hobart something or others. I really did try to keep an open mind...

Got to say, it was MORE disappointing that I thought it would be. I was thinking a bit of hit & giggle, I could live with that, but holy ****! WTF are they on???

Between the bull**** music blasting out and the cuts to the commentary team between every ball, I couldn't make head nor arsehole of the whole affair.

Roll on the Sydney test - TEST CRICKET RULES!!! I can live with one day matches, but geez, this 20/20 crap is just a farce.....

Anyone who likes this **** need a bullet... Sorry about that - I tried, but as they say 'It just ain't cricket'.

I think your being polite here. I was given a ticket to the 'Gabba, last year , to watch a T20 & it was the worst experience I've had ( & I went to a Sherbert concert with a young lady in the early '70's). Noise, noise, noise, people "dancing" in a boxing ring, flame throwers. I couldn't even talk to my BIL beside me for the noise.
Test cricket I love. I reckon it's the 2nd most tactical game played, after chess.
Thanks for making me realise that I'm not the only T20 hater.
Steve

Originally Posted by Saitch

it was the worst experience I've had ( & I went to a Sherbert concert with a young lady in the early '70's).
Steve

Jeezs, is T 20 that bad?

Test cricket on TV, with the ABC commentary. That would work. Bob

Big cricket fan. I umpired for 6 years as a teenager and early twenties. Sadly my enthusiasm for the game didn't result in any real talent so I umpired instead. Always watch the test matches and a lot of the one dayers but can't really take to T20.

We went to the first T20 game at the WACA which was WA v Victoria and thoroughly enjoyed it. For me it's the commentators both for the Big Bash and the internationals. I don't like hearing footy commentators trying to talk up the play and its bad enough having Brayshaw during the tests let alone listening to him carrying on in a T20.

Originally Posted by bob10

Test cricket on TV, with the ABC commentary. That would work. Bob

And we could go back to the days of having a camera at one end only.

Originally Posted by Saitch

I think your being polite here. I was given a ticket to the 'Gabba, last year , to watch a T20 & it was the worst experience I've had ( & I went to a Sherbert concert with a young lady in the early '70's). Noise, noise, noise, people "dancing" in a boxing ring, flame throwers. I couldn't even talk to my BIL beside me for the noise.
Test cricket I love. I reckon it's the 2nd most tactical game played, after chess.
Thanks for making me realise that I'm not the only T20 hater.
Steve

You beat me to it. Like chess, test cricket is a game of tactics. I like watching test cricket and the one day variety. But that 20/20 stuff is just crap. I like to play chess also, but not too clever at it. Thinking two or three moves ahead takes some skill.

I reckon we need a forum for cricket.

im watching the T20 now.
its still cricket. it just uses different tactics to test cricket
i like both