Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
If Tests are sacrosanct, so are ODIs IMO.
From your posts so far I'd guess I'm a different generation to you though. My lot are far more prone to take ODIs more seriously than the lot I'm suspecting you belong to.
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Is ODI status been given out too easily?
- Thread starter Craig
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From your posts so far I'd guess I'm a different generation to you though. My lot are far more prone to take ODIs more seriously than the lot I'm suspecting you belong to.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm 34. I was brought up on a mixed diet of Tests, ODIs and various kinds of county cricket. I've always felt that Tests and first class cricket are on a completely different plane to one day cricket. Which is not to say that one dayers can't be fun and can't be good matches - they can - but as a general rule, and with a limit of 5 days, the longer the format the better as far as I'm concerned.
I suspect there isn't a massive generation gap - or indeed a huge difference in outlook - between us.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No difference in outlook as far as priority goes - I've always said that the First-Class game (at both international and domestic level) is far more "cricket" than one-day cricket (likewise at both levels) is and I've certainly always treated them as totally separate. But I tend to find that those who, in 2007, are around the 30 mark or over have more of a propensity to treat one-day cricket as far, far more fourth\fifth-class than those my age (I'm 22 as of this post for those who don't know) who tend to look upon them more as second-class.
I've always thought that top-level international status, at both First-Class and one-day level, is worthy of sacrosanction. If I could only give such sacrosantion to one of the two, I'd go for Tests, of course, but my ideal choice would and always has been both.
However, I in turn have always treated Twenty20 as fourth\fifth-class. I couldn't care less about it, and it honestly doesn't bother me who plays what, what's classified as what, who does well, or anything, in that form. It simply passes me by, I have no interest in it.
I've always thought that top-level international status, at both First-Class and one-day level, is worthy of sacrosanction. If I could only give such sacrosantion to one of the two, I'd go for Tests, of course, but my ideal choice would and always has been both.
However, I in turn have always treated Twenty20 as fourth\fifth-class. I couldn't care less about it, and it honestly doesn't bother me who plays what, what's classified as what, who does well, or anything, in that form. It simply passes me by, I have no interest in it.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Aldo scored 472 tbh, there was a big shenanigans once he hit 468 which gave him the record outright, so must have been post-war. Oh, and I was there when he scored number 468, natch
