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Post by exile on Jul 22, 2023 11:26:46 GMT
It's going to rain all day in the West Midlands so this match is effectively over. Meanwhile Hampshire, Surrey, Essex and Somerset have managed to win. I can't understand why, with a first innings lead of 100+, we didn't at least try to win this game.
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Post by anyportinastorm on Jul 22, 2023 11:31:09 GMT
It's going to rain all day in the West Midlands so this match is effectively over. Meanwhile Hampshire, Surrey, Essex and Somerset have managed to win. I can't understand why, with a first innings lead of 100+, we didn't at least try to win this game. As we aren't in a title race and there was the outside chance of a relegation battle instead I think we were taking the safety first approach and the guaranteed draw points. |
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 22, 2023 11:51:43 GMT
It’s the Lancashire Way.
Ironically, I think Lancashire could be one of the last bastions against Bazball !
I love attacking cricket but I really think , much as it is good to see the Aussies being tonked, that we are seeing the start ofTest cricket becoming far too bias to the bat just like 2020 is. When someone gets lucky like Crawley did in his first 50 and gets his eye in, it becomes impossible to defend a cricket ground with 11 people. The bats are like howitzers and even a better captain that Pat Cummins would struggle to do anything. Exile rightly ribbed me the other day about one of my hobby horses and another one is that you cannot afford to spread the field completely and let the bat know that you have given up getting them out by bowling skill. However, you can put fielders anywhere and it wouldn’t have stopped Bairstow yesterday.
All this stuff about it saving Test cricket is nonsense . 2005 was exciting enough for anyone and better quality.
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 22, 2023 12:45:36 GMT
BBC website says drawn.... other results have gone our way so there is a gap of 50 points between us and the bottom team and 35 the next club up...
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Post by mickeyg on Jul 22, 2023 13:14:29 GMT
Back to back games now against Northants albeit a little over a month apart while Middlesex play Warks and Essex. 2 draws coupled with 2 middlesex defeats would probably be enough to stay up. Winning the 1st one this next week would be a good boost to be comfortably safe.
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Post by exile on Jul 22, 2023 14:25:22 GMT
All this stuff about it saving Test cricket is nonsense . 2005 was exciting enough for anyone and better quality. The current Ashes series won't save test cricket (or indeed any form of cricket) because, however exciting it may be (and I agree with Des that 2005 was better) and however much media hype there is, the plain fact is that it only has a small audience. At one point in the 2005 Oval Test Match viewing figures on Channel 4 reached well over 8 million. After the current Edgbaston test Sky TV was boasting of "record viewing figures" of..........1.17 million. Unlike the Channel 4 audience, which included large numbers of people who don't normally watch cricket, the Sky audience consisted almost entirely of existing followers of the game.
The most recent survey of children's participation in sport indicated that only 5% of 5 -16 year olds had ever played cricket of any kind. Also cricket has all but disappeared from state schools, so its future is mainly as a niche sport played by the privately educated, of whom there will never be enough to supply simultaneously both the traditional form of the game and the expanding "franchise" T20 version and who will, as they say, "follow the money". |
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 22, 2023 18:03:08 GMT
I'm watching the 2nd test Windies v India and the ground in Trinidad is half empty which illustrates the decline of Test Cricket in West Indies.
Apart from England, India and Australia all of the other test nations are short of funds and I think the effect of franchise cricket will be greater on them as they aren't able to offer the kind of salary that matches what a franchise can pay for just a few weeks work.
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Post by alanw on Jul 22, 2023 18:20:58 GMT
I'm watching the 2nd test Windies v India and the ground in Trinidad is half empty which illustrates the decline of Test Cricket in West Indies.
Apart from England, India and Australia all of the other test nations are short of funds and I think the effect of franchise cricket will be greater on them as they aren't able to offer the kind of salary that matches what a franchise can pay for just a few weeks work.
Totally agree I went to the New Zealand Sri Lanka test in Christchurch during the winter, I estimated the crowd to be 300 to 500. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2023 7:14:32 GMT
I'm watching the 2nd test Windies v India and the ground in Trinidad is half empty which illustrates the decline of Test Cricket in West Indies. Apart from England, India and Australia all of the other test nations are short of funds and I think the effect of franchise cricket will be greater on them as they aren't able to offer the kind of salary that matches what a franchise can pay for just a few weeks work. A lot to do with that is pricce of tickets fro locals also they West Indies Cricket Board built new grounds basically in the middle of nowhere |
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Post by John W on Jul 23, 2023 7:29:40 GMT
I'm watching the 2nd test Windies v India and the ground in Trinidad is half empty which illustrates the decline of Test Cricket in West Indies.
Apart from England, India and Australia all of the other test nations are short of funds and I think the effect of franchise cricket will be greater on them as they aren't able to offer the kind of salary that matches what a franchise can pay for just a few weeks work.
That's exactly how The 3 bigwigs want it to be, they want total control over the other Test nations, though ultimately India control England and Australia as well, this showed with the abandoned OT Test a couple of year's ago when the Indians scuppered back for the IPL. |
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