Dick Rockett
International Vice-Captain
It's the active form of a verb that also means a small body of flowing water.I don't even know which word it's filtered there tbh
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It's the active form of a verb that also means a small body of flowing water.I don't even know which word it's filtered there tbh
You like the kinky **** too eh?It's the active form of a verb that also means a small body of flowing water.
Who doesn't??You like the kinky **** too eh?
'1 test series every four years'? It is a bilateral thing so only a year lapses between the end of the Australian and the beginning of the English,
2005
2006 - 7
2009
2010 -11
Listen, you requested that I elaborate on my disagreement with four day tests and I have certainly given it. No use getting stroppy now.
Interesting inputs from fred and it deserves more thoughtful input than what kennedy and strawman are offering. I'd confidently say test cricket is dead in countries like SL, WI, PAK(also due to other reasons). NZ and SA(it has other issues anyway which puts its long term future in question) get minimal interest in test cricket from majority of sports fans in their countries. India is unpredictable, it doesn't get big crowds for tests but their players like Kohli still have star power which might draw the crowds now and again. Basically test cricket is healthy in only England and Australia. I read that the host boards actually lose money when they host a test series between non big 3 countries, it's actually a sad state of affairs, cricket is actually one of the most expensive games to play and I'm not sure how cricketers from developing countries will be able to compete with developed countries like AUS & ENG in an expensive game like Test cricket as the gap is widening between the cricketers from the rich boards and the poor ones. In 20 years I predict Ashes to be the only form of test cricket to be played.
I already addressed your second point in an earlier post I made; so:
So not only are you reducing the days from five to four which knocks off a day of ticket sales that you need to make up with higher attendance on other days, you're also introducing cheaper half-day tickets that cannibalise full-day sales and hoping that it still has a positive effect on your bottom line. Even if we're only looking at the immediate financials and ignoring everything else, you'd need some very good data to back up the idea that net sales would increase, to say the least.
There's also nothing stopping introduction of part-day tickets to existing 5-day test matches btw, if they're such a good idea. Presumably a few cricket boards would have looked at this in the past, and yet such part-day tickets are a rarity.
You also still haven't addressed that it's a marathon day for players.
Huh?It's not every 2yrs (average) when the tests in Australia don't sell out as you claim. If you can point to a 4th day crowd at the MCG with 90,000 people I'll be happy to concede you're right but until that time your choice of using a couple of tests every 4 years as the norm is simply laughable. Reality is the best you will do is a decade ago and that would just be another outlier anyway.
Huh?
There is no doubt that days 4 and 5 sell extremely well, England or Oz. Watch the footage.
I cannot give you day-by-day stats because, A/ Wisden does not provide them, B/ fifth days and sometimes fourth days do not always happen, but I can give you the grand figures from 2013/14 Ashes,You said Day 4 sells out. It doesn't. End of story. Give us some crowd figures for the last few Ashes series in Aus so we can laugh at you some more.
You could make your points without being a flog about it all. Maybe.Thanks for your kind words and thank you for taking the time to use your brain for intelligent thought on the matter. Something that has been sadly lacking from some on this thread.
What about the other 98% of test matches... you want to protect that tiny bit of magic?Removal of a fifth day would have removed some of the greatest moments in test cricket, the end of the (1st) tied test, the 'Miracle of Headingley '81', the final wicket at Edgbaston '05. Some of the most glorious moments of test cricket - basically the reason people live for this wonderful sport - would not have happened.
Test cricket in Australia, England and India does not need revival. It's the rest of the world that needs it.I cannot give you day-by-day stats because, A/ Wisden does not provide them, B/ fifth days and sometimes fourth days do not always happen, but I can give you the grand figures from 2013/14 Ashes,
Gabba: 122, 910
Adelaide: 153, 530
WACCA: 83, 760
MCG: 271, 865
SCG: 131, 713.
763, 778 saw The Ashes in 2013-4.
How would chopping the fifth day off improve the above figure?
Once again, a bit of decorum would be nice. At the moment I'd say most people are laughing at you, and wondering when you'll be banned.You said Day 4 sells out. It doesn't. End of story. Give us some crowd figures for the last few Ashes series in Aus so we can laugh at you some more.
It isn't but it's a pretty obvious indication.I'm not sure why stadium attendance seems to be everything when it comes to discussing Test cricket's popularity.
For an ordinary punter like me it is, but the folk that matter are way more interested in TV viewing figures.I'm not sure why stadium attendance seems to be everything when it comes to discussing Test cricket's popularity.