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    I feel like the only person who likes the new ODI format...

    The MCG can remove couple rows of seats nearest to the playing area to make the outfield larger. It will reduce capacity somewhat, but it's the best thing to do, or it maybe possible to retain the same capacity by extending the stands vertically. As for other grounds, some of them should look to...
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    2019 world cup format

    Three groups of five. Top two from each make it through to a Super Six, where each team plays the qualifiers from the other two groups (the don't play fellow qualifier from their own group). You could then have top four from the super six into semis, or the top two in the final. Two weeks fro...
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    I feel like the only person who likes the new ODI format...

    I never really understood why teams don't keep a first slip (positioned slightly wider than a regular first slip) in one dayers for the entire innings, considering the number of edges that go slightly wide of the keeper. It might provide opportunity to take wickets occasionally but even more so...
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    Can Cricket Overtake Football?

    Roughly equal, maybe cricket was slightly more popular at one time but only fractionally. The two sports have taken over different seasons of the year, pretty much sharing the same fans on the whole. Today, football attracts the worst of the British, the hooligans, chavs. The dumbed-down public...
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    Can Cricket Overtake Football?

    Interestingly, with the exception of the UK, cricket is more popular than soccer in all the cricket playing countries.
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    Can Cricket Overtake Football?

    Cricket is way more popular in Australia than soccer among people of British descent. However, there is a growing immigration from traditionally non-cricketing countries there and soccer is way more popular with them, many of whom, sadly, probably do not like cricket at all. That said cricket is...
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    I feel like the only person who likes the new ODI format...

    I love the power game. However, it should be the batsmen that generate the power, not the bats. As someone mentioned in another thread, I think we need to ensure we play at least the international game with minimum boundary distance of 80 metres to all sides. If some grounds are aren't able to...
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    Who are the biggest hitters in the game?

    You are correct about James Franklin. I am not sure about Harris as I never saw him hit any really big sixes while Cairns hit so many. Hick was indeed a big hitter, as was Brendon Julian, who used to hit many massive shots for Western Australia even in the four day game.
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    Who are the biggest hitters in the game?

    My list wasn't supposed to be strictly just these, they were ones that I could think of at the time of writing. I have seen James Faulkner hit a few big sixes (the 105m and 110m back to back sixes against England last year come to mind) but I would still put him and Doni a tier below the guys I...
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    Who are the biggest hitters in the game?

    With sixes galore this World Cup, me and a friend got round to discussing the biggest hitters we've seen in the game over the last 15 years or so. There were guys like Viv Richards, Lance Cairns but they were just before our time and therefore not included. We are talking about players who hit a...
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    Cricket is shifting to the domestic game, leaving England behind

    I am getting the impression cricket's popularity and powerbase is shifting to the domestic game from the international. Cricket has always been about one nation against another as opposed to one club againt another, but I think with the T20 franchise cricket there is now a fan base developing...
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    cricket vs rugby vs baseball vs others...

    I am guessing the 3 billion figure for the rugby is a cumulative one i.e. all matches in the world cup combined. By the way, I think T20 cricket could easily spread to non-Commonwealth countries. The T20 World Cup should have twenty countries in it. It's an attractive product for people who...
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    My plans for the ODI game

    Shane Warne can come up with silly ideas sometimes. Twenty five overs a bowler too many. Spinners would hardly play a role for some teams while for others too much. Australia would have Johnson, Starc and Hazlewood do all the bowling. You can go in with three frontline bowlers and the rest all...
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    My plans for the ODI game

    I think they need to be changed to 40 overs a side. The 50 over game, which is 100 overs if it goes the distance, is too long for the modern day. I would like to see it changed to 40 overs and the need to speed up the game in terms of overs bowled per hour. We need less downtime between...
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