DanielFullard
U19 Vice-Captain
Fixated on facts and figures!
Cricket is more than game played on paper. Yet if you listened to some fans you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
Basically this thread and my rant-ish argument derives from a line of debate in the England in India thread above and concerns the tendency of some Cricket fans and even pundits/journalists to get wrapped up in streams of facts and figures and forget about what matters most….the physical playing of the sport. Admittedly, Cricket is a fact heavy game and a lot of the time using facts bolsters arguments but some people have the tendency to get carried away and end up quoting realms of figures without any substance. Facts do matter, figures do matter but sometimes I think people need to bare in mind there is more to cricket than purely facts and figures.
That is why for instance I much prefer to hear the thoughts of fans who have actually been to the games and can give a good indication of how a player is doing rather than someone who has never seen the guy play trying to argue a case based on figures alone.
I have had trouble wording this thread but hopefully I have got my point across but just to reiterate, do you think some people get carried away with facts and figures? Don’t get me wrong, facts and figures are essential to cricket and provide a more than basic outline as to how well a player is doing but sometimes I find myself getting annoyed at people who solely rely on facts and figures as the basis for their opinions. I am not pointing the finger at anyone on here and really professional magazines and newspapers are just as guilty but its one tendency amongst Cricket buffs I find quite irritating.
Cricket is more than game played on paper. Yet if you listened to some fans you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
Basically this thread and my rant-ish argument derives from a line of debate in the England in India thread above and concerns the tendency of some Cricket fans and even pundits/journalists to get wrapped up in streams of facts and figures and forget about what matters most….the physical playing of the sport. Admittedly, Cricket is a fact heavy game and a lot of the time using facts bolsters arguments but some people have the tendency to get carried away and end up quoting realms of figures without any substance. Facts do matter, figures do matter but sometimes I think people need to bare in mind there is more to cricket than purely facts and figures.
That is why for instance I much prefer to hear the thoughts of fans who have actually been to the games and can give a good indication of how a player is doing rather than someone who has never seen the guy play trying to argue a case based on figures alone.
I have had trouble wording this thread but hopefully I have got my point across but just to reiterate, do you think some people get carried away with facts and figures? Don’t get me wrong, facts and figures are essential to cricket and provide a more than basic outline as to how well a player is doing but sometimes I find myself getting annoyed at people who solely rely on facts and figures as the basis for their opinions. I am not pointing the finger at anyone on here and really professional magazines and newspapers are just as guilty but its one tendency amongst Cricket buffs I find quite irritating.