Four-day test cricket

[honestbharani]

You are all dumb **** s. The answer is to have a non-overs limit contest at one end and a T20/LO contest at the other end. We can get rid of all the dumb "end" names as well. It will be simply the "Test End" on one side and the "T20 End" on the other side. And it will actually be the "end" of ODIs.

 

[Daemon]

What if Stokes gets arrested in between two weekends of an Ashes Split Test (tm)

There will be no Ashes Split Test (tm), because the Ashes are a big enough money spinner as it is.

This is to help the lesser nations such as NZ, who make a loss of half a million on every Test they play.

 

[Top_Cat]

What if Stokes gets arrested in between two weekends of an Ashes Split Test (tm)

haha, I kinda love this. Play Sat/Sun then give the known lads a tab at the local after Thursday selection night prior to the second half of the game.

 

[weldone]

Has to play in hand cuffs

with his wife

 

[TheJediBrah]

with his wife

poor **** is married? No wonder he's acting up

 

[cnerd123]

with his wife

10/10 humour

 

[weldone]

10/10 humour

In the good old days, that would surely fetch a like from you. How have you changed *****?

 

[G.I.Joe]

Daemon's split test (tm) concept is sound.

A radical alternative to the official 4 day proposal could be to keep the 5 days, but make each day even longer—potentially 100 overs each. This sounds ****oo, but hear me out.

Here's how it goes—"Day 1" of an Ind-Aus Test has them play at Chennai. The teams split the day's 100 overs into two innings of 50 overs for each team, and the side scoring more runs wins the "day".

Day 2 is played along similar lines at Kolkata, Day 3 at Indore, Day 4 at Bengaluru, and Day 5 at Nagpur. The team that wins the most "days" wins the Test match.

But then there's simply too much travelling and off time in between the days of the Test match, and spectators in a city probably won't pay to see just 20% of the game, so I reckon this is not even close to being acommercially viable model for the cricket boards.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Here is a radical proposal: keep test cricket the way it already is.

 

[Starfighter]

*faints dead away*

 

[Daemon]

Here is a radical proposal: keep test cricket the way it already is.

hah, get a load of this guy

 

[vcs]

In the good old days, that would surely fetch a like from you. How have you changed *****?

He's greedy for his own now.

 

[Prince EWS]

Daemon's idea would be interesting for something that was more of a league structure than a series structure. You could get used to your cricket side playing every weekend, like people do with their teams in other sports.

Maybe it could have saved four-day domestic cricket as a consumer product. If only!

 

[Bijed]

In the good old days, that would surely fetch a like from you. How have you changed *****?

I think that time Fred Tetanus started handing out hundreds of likes made him suffer some kind of existential crisis and damaged his like-giving ability

 

[stephen]

Daemon's split test (tm) concept is sound.

A radical alternative to the official 4 day proposal could be to keep the 5 days, but make each day even longer—potentially 100 overs each. This sounds ****oo, but hear me out.

Here's how it goes—"Day 1" of an Ind-Aus Test has them play at Chennai. The teams split the day's 100 overs into two innings of 50 overs for each team, and the side scoring more runs wins the "day".

Day 2 is played along similar lines at Kolkata, Day 3 at Indore, Day 4 at Bengaluru, and Day 5 at Nagpur. The team that wins the most "days" wins the Test match.

But then there's simply too much travelling and off time in between the days of the Test match, and spectators in a city probably won't pay to see just 20% of the game, so I reckon this is not even close to being acommercially viable model for the cricket boards.

 

[cnerd123]

I'm glad GI Joe is back but his lack of an avatar makes me feel he isn't fully committed to his return.


I feel it's like dating a girl whom at first you thought it would just be a quick fling which is a lot of fun whenever you do get to meet but you know it's probably not going anywhere and it isn't going to last, but then you continue to keep seeing each other over and over again, andnow you're confused because it's been like 4 months and she hasn't added you back on social media yet and you don't know where this is going but you don't want to be that guy who suddenly gets all clingy on her and wants to know if you two are exclusive now and if this is a 'relationship' and you're 'boyfriend-girlfriend', so you hold off on asking any further questions and just enjoy her company whenever you get it. You don't want to ruin a good thing but the anxiety and uncertainity is also killing you slowly.




Goddamit GI Joe are we back together now or are we not.

 

[honestbharani]

And that answers weldone's question of why there are so few ***** likes these days....

 

[TheJediBrah]

I'm glad GI Joe is back but his lack of an avatar makes me feel he isn't fully committed to his return.


I feel it's like dating a girl whom at first you thought it would just be a quick fling which is a lot of fun whenever you do get to meet but you know it's probably not going anywhere and it isn't going to last, but then you continue to keep seeing each other over and over again, andnow you're confused because it's been like 4 months and she hasn't added you back on social media yet and you don't know where this is going but you don't want to be that guy who suddenly gets all clingy on her and wants to know if you two are exclusive now and if this is a 'relationship' and you're 'boyfriend-girlfriend', so you hold off on asking any further questions and just enjoy her company whenever you get it. You don't want to ruin a good thing but the anxiety and uncertainity is also killing you slowly.




Goddamit GI Joe are we back together now or are we not.

Or when the girl you're seeing keeps calling the police every time you go on a date with her. It's not my fault she doesn't want to go anywhere fun together and i have to follow her when she's out with her friends or wait outside her windows at night to spend time together.

 

[cnerd123]

Or when the girl you're seeing keeps calling the police every time you go on a date with her. It's not my fault she doesn't want to go anywhere fun together and i have to follow her when she's out with her friends or wait outside her windows at night to spend time together.

I feel like this applies less to my feelings for G I Joe and more for your feelings to HB tbh

 

[jimmy101]

Daemon's idea would be interesting for something that was more of a league structure than a series structure. You could get used to your cricket side playing every weekend, like people do with their teams in other sports.

Maybe it could have saved four-day domestic cricket as a consumer product. If only!

Alas, I don't think anything could have saved FC cricket as a consumer product. List A's on the other hand...