Any new converts?

[Xuhaib]

I was a proud member of 20/20 is boring society but Twenty-Twenty is now forming a place in my heart, in fact, I think I prefer it over ODI's. The standard ODI these days are just too mundane.

So any new converts to this fascinating new form of the game.

 

[Xuhaib]

lolz...and i mess up the spelling in the title.

mods please change it to 'converts'

 

[Precambrian]

I am also a convert. From "I like 20-20s" to "20-20 is killing the joy". It's bloody overkill out there, and news of having two world cups in consecutive years doesnt exactly help that.

 

[zaremba]

It's like eating icing without the cake. Fun for about 2 seconds.

 

[Xuhaib]

I am also a convert. From "I like 20-20s" to "20-20 is killing the joy". It's bloody overkill out there, and news of having two world cups in consecutive years doesnt exactly help that.

I feel 20/20 format is good enough to survive the overkill unlike Odi's

 

[Precambrian]

One aspect which really elevates 20-20 as a spectator sport is that the difference between two teams is minimal. Hence "upsets" are more likely to happen, since there is hardly any time for one side to come back after being pushed back early due to a good spell, or a short but stormy innings.

However as a student of the game, I revel in the intricacies of the game, and as such find test matches the best to follow, followed by ODIs which allow a certain degree of come-backs and strategising.

 

[Bees]

I like being able to watch about 40 TwentyTwenty matches in the space of a month, seeing all kinds of cricketers from different nations play together.

As a specatator, the IPL ignited an interest in cricket that was only fleeting in times past.

 

[Mister Wright]

I don't like watching 20/20s live, but I've come to like watching them on television. Not sure why. They'll never be my favourite form of cricket. That will always be test cricket, but once where I said, "I'll never watch 20/20," I've come to enjoy at least watching them on television.

 

[2freddie]

personally man its all just about twenty20 cricket for me...its much better then all the other forms of the game apart from possbily tests, but even they are drying up becuase all the players are ditching it for franchised runnd teams!!

 

[GIMH]

I don't like watching 20/20s live, but I've come to like watching them on television. Not sure why. They'll never be my favourite form of cricket. That will always be test cricket, but once where I said, "I'll never watch 20/20," I've come to enjoy at least watching them on television.

Well I think that the best thing about going to watch cricket live is that it's a full day out, six hours of sport in the sunshine, whereas T20 is less than half the length. But on TV it's grand because you get home from work, watch Lancs V Durham then have your tea (Y)

 

[Craig]

T20 has it's time and place for mine.

 

[nightprowler10]

It's like eating icing without the cake. Fun for about 2 seconds.

Haha, exactly how I feel. That said, will watch most T20s involving Pakistan, whereas will watch almost anybody play Test cricket.

 

[Uppercut]

I don't like watching 20/20s live, but I've come to like watching them on television. Not sure why. They'll never be my favourite form of cricket. That will always be test cricket, but once where I said, "I'll never watch 20/20," I've come to enjoy at least watching them on television.

I'm the opposite actually, love live T20. Plenty to cheer, a good three hours of your life that's pure entertainment with nothing too deep about it (although not the hit-and-giggle some would see it as.) Tests are more of an obsession, though. They're something i would get up early every morning and watch, often feeling too engrossed in the outcome to enjoy them in the same way i can enjoy a carefree T20 match. An evening at T20 is a good evening out, without caring for the form as i do tests. For that reason i prefer live T20 to TV T20.

 

[_Ed_]

Still not a fan.

I've always enjoyed the part of an ODI innings that everyone says is bland. Although I was fuming about our top-order collapses, I absolutely loved watching Oram rebuild through those middle orders. Fascinating stuff IMO.

 

[Polo23]

I prefer actually watching a battle between bat and ball, not just some untalented bloke with a good eye swinging to try and clear the boundary (think Shahid Afridi).

Cricket is supposed to be a battle between bat and ball, and you are supposed to have great powers of concetration and an incredible mind capacity to survive. 20/20 takes away all the interesting and quite brilliant facets out of cricket, and turns it into a pile of crap.

If I ever come to enjoy 20/20 i'll kill myself.

 

[Julian87]

Prefer an ODI any day of the week. Unless India are playing.

 

[Top_Cat]

I'm the opposite actually, love live T20. Plenty to cheer, a good three hours of your life that's pure entertainment with nothing too deep about it (although not the hit-and-giggle some would see it as.) Tests are more of an obsession, though. They're something i would get up early every morning and watch, often feeling too engrossed in the outcome to enjoy them in the same way i can enjoy a carefree T20 match. An evening at T20 is a good evening out, without caring for the form as i do tests. For that reason i prefer live T20 to TV T20.

This, for me too. Twenty20 is the boink-buddy, the chick you try things you wouldn't ordinary try with but, eh, because it's a short-term thing, you just enjoy yourself then forget about her.

Tests are the one you fall in love with. There's a place for both and I certainly enjoy both. Tests still well and truly number 1 for me but I still enjoy Twenty20 on the level it was meant to be enjoyed.

The advent of Twenty20 has caused to to re-evaluate my opinion of ODI's, to be honest. I used to enjoy them but there were long stretches of ODI games, in the middle overs where batsmen are just taking the singles the fielding team gives them, that I'm bored out of my mind. The first 15 and the last 10 overs of a ODI were the only ones that interested me and Twenty20 has just taken the middle bit out which I always used to avoid.

I prefer actually watching a battle between bat and ball, not just some untalented bloke with a good eye swinging to try and clear the boundary (think Shahid Afridi).

Yeah but blokes like Shahid have been the least successful at the game, something which no-one would have predicted before they kicked off. Mindless slogging won't you anywhere. It's a game with more nuances than people give it credit for.

 

[duffer]

Yeah, I watched all the IPL and the most brainless players in the tournament (Afridi, Uthappa, Gibbs etc) all turned out to be major liabilities for sides and could be directly blamed for losses. There's far more to T20's than mindless hammering of bowlers.

I enjoy them but believe they should be limited to domestic stuff and leave most of the International game to Tests.

 

[NZTailender]

Didn't like them at first but like them now. Dangers of there being overkill, but then we have to remember there was also the ODI overkill for a while there. Will be great if we could get a harmonious calendar of Tests with limited ODIs and T20s being played.

Think we should seriously have a standardised set of matches, rather than the hodge podge it is now. 2 test series should be destroyed forever

 

[Top_Cat]

Didn't like them at first but like them now. Dangers of there being overkill, but then we have to remember there was also the ODI overkill for a while there. Will be great if we could get a harmonious calendar of Tests with limited ODIs and T20s being played.

Think it's still unclear what that harmonious mix is, really. Will probably come down to crowd numbers as the determinant.

Think we should seriously have a standardised set of matches, rather than the hodge podge it is now. 2 test series should be destroyed forever

Agree with you but I know it's probably unrealistic to hope for that. 2 Test series', if that's all one of the participating boards can afford to fund, is what we're stuck with. Don't really understand, though, why India and Aus are only playing 4 Tests, though. I know its scheduling and crowd numbers haven't actually supported the event but for a showpiece series like that, should be 5 Tests.