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What is your relationship with cricket right now?
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harsh.ag
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Do you have rooh afza in your drinks break?
trundler
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Haha, I had my 3rd glass of rooh afza when I came back home.
When we do have drinks breaks, sometimes there's tang too.
I probably feel that the simultaneous rise of T20s and social media played a huge role in sharp decline of my interest in the game.
Even today for me an India vs Zimbabwe ODI game from the 90s is far more watchable than say Kohli vs Starc in a test match.
P.S: I love watching Ranji Trophy if I get a chance to. The simplicity and tranquility makes it watchable for me.
Even today for me an India vs Zimbabwe ODI game from the 90s is far more watchable than say Kohli vs Starc in a test match.
P.S: I love watching Ranji Trophy if I get a chance to. The simplicity and tranquility makes it watchable for me.
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NUFAN
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I struggle with context a bit. I often downplay performances and rankings due to the JAMODIs, T20 leagues and favourable batting conditions so I tend to put an asterix beside a lot of the International cricket thats on.
Big events like a world cup or an ashes in england are massive though and i get really excited about these.
Big events like a world cup or an ashes in england are massive though and i get really excited about these.
h_hurricane
International Vice-Captain
End of youth and parenthood takes me away from the game a bit, not to say about T20s. However,childhood memories,sheer love for the game and a passion for statistics brings me back. There is just no game like cricket.
Teja.
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I sort off miss the days when we had an average side which was expected to be lackluster with one or two mercurial players who could really turn it on and change the game single-handedly. Cricket is less stressful but considerably more boring for me.
I started watching test cricket when I was 9, at my grandma's place and the India tour to Australia 03-04 was on and watched every ball, I remember being enthralled but it was a fundamentally lonely experience because nobody I knew IRL really gave a **** about the tests outside of the results or some random exciting passage of play. Then, I remember being in my mid-teens, had just joined CW and had the time to follow all international cricket ball-by-ball and ****post in tour threads. The love was just obsessive and all-pervasive and that seemed like the standard in CC. Those were some great ****ing times and was probably the peak of my cricket fandom days.
Now, I tend to get excited about WCs and Indian test series against nations which have the potential of being close either way but don't really get wound up about losing. Reading/discussing about said cricket on CW is a huge part of that experience for me. It;'s like christmas season with cricket being the food and y'all being the people, both of which are important for the atmosphere. I'll probably watch considerably less cricket if/when the forum dies because it'd take me back to when I was 9 and alone at my grandmothers, cheering on Sachin while he was making that boring ass 241 with only forward defensive strokes in Sydney, with my uncle popping in thrice a day to ask the score.
I started watching test cricket when I was 9, at my grandma's place and the India tour to Australia 03-04 was on and watched every ball, I remember being enthralled but it was a fundamentally lonely experience because nobody I knew IRL really gave a **** about the tests outside of the results or some random exciting passage of play. Then, I remember being in my mid-teens, had just joined CW and had the time to follow all international cricket ball-by-ball and ****post in tour threads. The love was just obsessive and all-pervasive and that seemed like the standard in CC. Those were some great ****ing times and was probably the peak of my cricket fandom days.
Now, I tend to get excited about WCs and Indian test series against nations which have the potential of being close either way but don't really get wound up about losing. Reading/discussing about said cricket on CW is a huge part of that experience for me. It;'s like christmas season with cricket being the food and y'all being the people, both of which are important for the atmosphere. I'll probably watch considerably less cricket if/when the forum dies because it'd take me back to when I was 9 and alone at my grandmothers, cheering on Sachin while he was making that boring ass 241 with only forward defensive strokes in Sydney, with my uncle popping in thrice a day to ask the score.
Flem274*
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ever since leaving uni all those years ago its been harder to maintain but i still keep coming back. i cant really justify staying up all night to watch a test anymore.
i think i loved the game more in the 2007-2014 period. it was probably unhealthy. cw has definitely kept me in the game. i follow the overseas teams far less than i used to, have no idea what happens in odis outside of nz games or world cups and don't really care to.
honestly i can see myself drifting away. rugby in particular is fast capturing my heart again more and if/when nz get crap again or nzc shelve test cricket i'll stop. if nzc stop caring about test cricket then i don't see any reason to care about cricket. t20 is fun but it's not engaging like other sports, so while i'd tune in for some popcorn i just won't care anymore.
much like the relationship you know is a poor choice but it's just too good right now to say no, i know that eventually nzc and later cricket in general will stop giving af about test cricket in favour of evolution aka all the money.
i think i loved the game more in the 2007-2014 period. it was probably unhealthy. cw has definitely kept me in the game. i follow the overseas teams far less than i used to, have no idea what happens in odis outside of nz games or world cups and don't really care to.
honestly i can see myself drifting away. rugby in particular is fast capturing my heart again more and if/when nz get crap again or nzc shelve test cricket i'll stop. if nzc stop caring about test cricket then i don't see any reason to care about cricket. t20 is fun but it's not engaging like other sports, so while i'd tune in for some popcorn i just won't care anymore.
much like the relationship you know is a poor choice but it's just too good right now to say no, i know that eventually nzc and later cricket in general will stop giving af about test cricket in favour of evolution aka all the money.
jimmy101
Cricketer Of The Year
Hear, hear.