slowfinger
International Debutant
This has been bugging me for a bit, haven't been on CW for a while also. But I fear that cricket hasn't got the exploding factor as it had all those years back. I mean, India (main host of WC), the stadiums aren't filled, Pakistan supporters aren't going berserk and there hasn't been a real promise of an ATG for a while. A lot of money has been shoved into 20/20 which isn't right and exciting anymore. It hasn't really been a contest of ball and bat as it has been and teams always adopt a defensive technique into the game whilst fielding. I don't think proper money has been invested into the game and I fear we need to sort it out soon. I typed cricket into Google and I found 141 M results whereas Baseball has 217M hits and Basketball has 267M hits. Football has 942M hits. Cricket is supposed to be the second most popular sport in the world. Moreover I feel more excited to spend 2 hours at the Foottie game rather than going to a 50 over game. If T20 could be like the Premier League (Football England) and have 20 teams or so competing in T20 format, then we have the Pro40 and the Tests as cups or friendlies then I think it would be more suitable and fun. There are also too many fixtures, so maybe instead of 20 teams have 5/6 teams and have divisions and like a top league and then go like that?
Maybe its just me but I think we need to discuss this.
Sorry if we already have but it slightly unnerves me. I think we have already discussed various formats but this is as a whole.
Thanks
Maybe its just me but I think we need to discuss this.
Sorry if we already have but it slightly unnerves me. I think we have already discussed various formats but this is as a whole.
Thanks