Should ODI cricket go?

[Xuhaib]

As a 90's kid I have a special attachment with odis. The ODI WC for me is still the pinnacle of the sport but the more I think about it the more it makes sense to me that this format is past its sell date now.

The cricket calender with the introduction of T 20 and its subsequent franchise leagues have over crowded things with tests being the original and most true format of the game needs to be preserved while the commercial attractiveness of T 20 and franchise cricket means we will see more and more of this format being played so it makes sense atleast to me that odi format has to be sacrificed for the long term health of the game.

Thoughts?

 

[CricAddict]

BD is finally good at something and you want it to go?

 

[Shri]

needs to go back to one new ball.

there is a leather manufacturing process to obtain white leather so that the leather does not need to be painted white

if they look into that and just make white balls that do not chip away and change color in 40 overs, balance between bat and ball will be restored and the game will become interesting again

because at the moment, classical finger spinners who do not chuck are basically not part of the game and neither is reverse swing

ban the two new balls and people will make an effort to watch odi cricket again

 

[Aritro]

BD is finally good at something and you want it to go?

The ODI Super League table should be used as the ultimate measure of cricketing achievement IMO

 

[Shady Slim]

needs to go back to one new ball.

there is a leather manufacturing process to obtain white leather so that the leather does not need to be painted white

if they look into that and just make white balls that do not chip away and change color in 40 overs, balance between bat and ball will be restored and the game will become interesting again

because at the moment, classical finger spinners who do not chuck are basically not part of the game and neither is reverse swing

ban the two new balls and people will make an effort to watch odi cricket again

yeah this is huge imho

nothing in it for bowlers except what they can do out of the hand, consequently tilting the game massively for the batsmen works for T20, because that's by and large adrenaline rush cricket for people with short attention spans and casual and new fans (categories overlap). ODI cricket on the other hand as it currently stands blends the worst of T20 (that being a contest essentially of batting teams) with the most mainstream unattractive trait of the longform (length), with neither the short sharp adrenaline hit that makes T20 bearable nor the balance and intrigue which makes test attractive.

 

[Starfighter]

Kookaburra pulled off a massive marketing coup when it convinced cricket that the correct response to the low quality of their product was to buy twice as many of them.

 

[honestbharani]

The ODI Super League table should be used as the ultimate measure of cricketing achievement IMO

The inaugural champions would carry more weight than the inaugural WTC winners AFAIC.

 

[davado]

yes it should go. Its obsolete.
Except for chicks.
By the way why are 50% of women cricketers lesbians?
well i can understand the attraction. Ashleigh gardner for example. But if those odds transferred to the wider population, the species would be in trouble


ouble

 

[GotSpin]

yes it should go. Its obsolete.
Except for chicks.
By the way why are 50% of women cricketers lesbians?
well i can understand the attraction. Ashleigh gardner for example. But if those odds transferred to the wider population, the species would be in trouble

This is a red hot post

 

[Magrat Garlick]

See this is what y'all get for encouraging that ****

 

[srbhkshk]

yes it should go. Its obsolete.
Except for chicks.
By the way why are 50% of women cricketers lesbians?
well i can understand the attraction. Ashleigh gardner for example. But if those odds transferred to the wider population, the species would be in trouble

What is your opinion on lesbians who play reverse sweeps?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Kookaburra pulled off a massive marketing coup when it convinced cricket that the correct response to the low quality of their product was to buy twice as many of them.

haha I reckon there's a version of this in every industry

 

[Shri]

What is your opinion on lesbians who play reverse sweeps?

it is simply a sweep to them

 

[davado]

What is your opinion on lesbians who play reverse sweeps?

ive got no problem with lesbians, i just think its weird so many of them play top level cricket. And of course my opinion of reverse sweeps are known

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The ODI Super League table should be used as the ultimate measure of cricketing achievement IMO

NZ 9 from 9. England 12 from 18. Forget counting boundaries and give us our rightful World Cup.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Hating ODIs is mostly a function of when you got into the game. Growing up through the 90s, every ODI was an event. I'm not sure if that's because everything's an event at that age, but teams certainly used to turn their best players out for games. I believe it's only somewhere in the late 00s that the concept of rotation crept into the game, not surprisingly at about the same time T20s came to prominence.

I still like ODIs, preferably in a multi-nation format whenever possible (quandrangular and upwards). I've liked these recent games in England despite them not being very competitive. It's a nice change of pace; I like how you can dip in and out at various stages and have live cricket at the back of your mind through the day.

I don't really hate T20s anymore either. They are what they are and they make money. It's still cricket at its core and at a far higher level than I was ever capable of playing at so **** it, no point complaining.

 

[subshakerz]

End meaningless bilateral ODI series. They dilute the quality. Restrict ODIs to just tournaments

 

[shortpitched713]

I like the idea of "a day at the cricket". It reminds me of a time where leisure was an actual concept and thing that a man could aspire to, before the modern age of "go now, go faster, all the time, now die".

So I have no love for 20-20, and will always prefer ODI to it.

 

[Daemon]

I prefer T20s to ODIs. Don't think I've had the time/patience to sit through an entire ODI since the WC final (even if it's just on in the background), something I regularly do with even Tests.

 

[shortpitched713]

I remember the days I could get proper projects done while listening to the cricket. Nowadays with this 20-20 lark, I can hardly fire up the old pipe, before the match is already half over.