Things I miss about cricket in the 80s/90s

[shortpitched713]

The fact that the standard of county cricket in England has fallen to an all time low as the England players and top international players don't play county cricket any longer.

This is a trend of FC cricket in general right, not just English county cricket I think? As there really isn't any money in domestic FC competitions in comparison to T20.

 

[Ashes81]

This is a trend of FC cricket in general right, not just English county cricket I think? As there really isn't any money in domestic FC competitions in comparison to T20.

In England it's due to central contracts which was obviously much needed at the time.

Long gone are the days when you could see Bob Willis bowling to Viv Richards when Warks played Somerset

 

[shortpitched713]

I mean, you see something similar, but in the T20 leagues. It's like they're the filter leagues with the highest level of competition, and the players that do well there, get to play Test cricket which no one but some of us purists care about. We're really at that part of the lifecycle of the game where we need to be subsidized, like classical music or something.

Anyway, at least we're not at the state of "modern high art", as we at least have some intrinsic value to the activity of playing Test cricket.

Edit: And before you get me saying it's not the same everywhere, yeah I know it's at a different stage of the cycle in different parts of the world. It's the overall trend I'm looking at.

 

[jcas0167]

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Marvellous.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Not worried about anything, other than how dire some of the pizza options are, and how many people are voting for them. Ham and pineapple??! And do I even want to know what a "Dirty Rotten" is?

Ham and pineapple is a Hawaiian pizza.

 

[Prince EWS]

Not worried about anything, other than how dire some of the pizza options are, and how many people are voting for them. Ham and pineapple??! And do I even want to know what a "Dirty Rotten" is?

 

[shortpitched713]

Ham and pineapple is a Hawaiian pizza.

Right, I'm aware. Doesn't make pineapple on a pizza not revolting.

 

[Burgey]

The old triangular ODI series to finish off the summer after the test matches was ****ing gold for a solid cricket fan.

Actually, going back to the 80s, the ODI triangular series was often run in between the tests, so you had sides playing a test then a couple of days later they'd play an ODI at the same venue. Worked a treat. Long before the days where there were basically separate test & LO sides.

 

[Blenkinsop]

I miss being able to sit on the grass right next to the boundary. I kind of miss bad fielding also.

 

[Burgey]

I miss being able to sit on the grass right next to the boundary. I kind of miss bad fielding also.

Follow the BBL mate, you'll see tons of it

 

[honestbharani]

Actually, going back to the 80s, the ODI triangular series was often run in between the tests, so you had sides playing a test then a couple of days later they'd play an ODI at the same venue. Worked a treat. Long before the days where there were basically separate test & LO sides.

It was like that even in 91/92. I remember India playing a couple of ODIs one week and a test next week or something silly like that. The sides looked so different over the course of these long ass series too, lol.

 

[Gremlin]

The John Player Special League played at county grounds you don't often get to see.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Crowds for test matches, mainly. They're also never coming back which is depressing to think about.

 

[andruid]

I do not remember if I have posted this here before but these Kenya kits were the best

 

[Ashes81]

The John Player Special League played at county grounds you don't often get to see.

I remember watching a JPL game on the box in the mid 1970's at Darley Dale - Derbyshire v Hampshire.

Its the only 1st class match ever held at the ground - its a typical club cricket ground. I can still remember Greenidge and Barry Richards smacking the ball over the boundary into the next field and scattering the sheep and Derbyshire fielders climbing over the fence to retrieve the ball ?

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Reverse swing.. Almost extinct now.

Still there in Pakistan

 

[andruid]

Not worried about anything, other than how dire some of the pizza options are, and how many people are voting for them. Ham and pineapple??! And do I even want to know what a "Dirty Rotten" is?

Is it not a rotting pizza fetched out of the rubbish tip? ??‍??‍??‍

 

[shortpitched713]

Is it not a rotting pizza fetched out of the rubbish tip? ??‍??‍??‍

 

[Daemon]

Nothing.

Am jelly I missed out on peak Viv, Tendulkar, Warne, Ws, etc though.

 

[shortpitched713]

Nothing.

Am jelly I missed out on peak Viv, Tendulkar, Warne, Ws, etc though.

1) Never let em tell you that the current group of players aren't every bit as good.
2) The internet, and online footage is your friend. Robelinda is a good start, as is DM MORDECAI.