Which aspects of test cricket have regressed in the current era?

[Adders]

Trundler getting spanked by phlegm........gotta love that.

 

[trundler]

This is a disingenuous rebuttal. You think this comment (and 95% of your posts these days) makes you look funny and like you have no time for nonsense, but it just makes you look like a massive dickhead.

I don't agree with Molehill either but come on, no one died and made you the post quality police. Start with your own and stop patronising someone trying to engage with you in good faith.

Nah it really wasn't. Wasn't even replying to Molehill there and calling that 'good faith' is a very charitable interpretation. And lol at Mr Sanctimony calling me the quality police. Your Gandhi shtick is thoroughly annoying.

The vast majority of your posts are questioning the integrity and motives of other people and ****ting on anything you disagree with as dumb nerd logic. Can't wrap my head around the audacity of this coming from you. Gtfo

 

[Athlai]

I think you mean his Gandhi "stick".

 

[Flem274*]

Nah it really wasn't. Wasn't even replying to Molehill there and calling that 'good faith' is a very charitable interpretation. And lol at Mr Sanctimony calling me the quality police. Your Gandhi shtick is thoroughly annoying.

The vast majority of your posts are questioning the integrity and motives of other people and ****ting on anything you disagree with as dumb nerd logic. Can't wrap my head around the audacity of this coming from you. Gtfo

Yeah I do rush nukes in Civ.

So, you can either take on board the nudge from someone who genuinely wants to help you or you can continue to ignore it. If you keep posting like you do now I'll be surprised if you enjoy the forum as much in 12 months.

Up to you.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

More even numbers of test played between countries

 

[subshakerz]

More even numbers of test played between countries

The lack of long test series is definitely a problem.

Pakistan hasn't played a 5 test series away since 1992.

We used to play 4 test series against England at least but even that has stopped recently.

There is now a proliferation of 2 test series everywhere.


Mind you, I don't think the current Pakistani side is worth watching for 5 tests.

 

[Molehill]

from the debates on C247 you have to be trolling to discredit Tendulkar for massaging his figures against Zim/Bang then in the next sentence compare him unfavorably to Kallis.

I was always a big Kallis fan, although yes I do realise he liked to bash a minnow too.

 

[Molehill]

More even numbers of test played between countries

The Test Championship Table doesn't necessarily back that up. England have played 22 in the current cycle, Sri Lanka 10, NZ 11, Windies and Bangladesh 12. It's one reason why England will struggle to make the Final (apart from not being good enough until this last year), harder to maintain a higher percentage over a greater number of matches.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

More even numbers of test played between countries

The Test Championship Table doesn't necessarily back that up. England have played 22 in the current cycle, Sri Lanka 10, NZ 11, Windies and Bangladesh 12. It's one reason why England will struggle to make the Final (apart from not being good enough until this last year), harder to maintain a higher percentage over a greater number of matches.

Yes it does. Regressed means worsened. Tests used to played more evenly before the big 3 took over (wrecked) cricket.

 

[Molehill]

Yes it does. Regressed means worsened. Tests used to played more evenly before the big 3 took over (wrecked) cricket.

Sorry with you now. You're absolutely right.

 

[Prince EWS]

Forum posting.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Sorry with you now. You're absolutely right.

No worries, my first post was probably a bit ambiguous. I can understand how it was misinterpreted.

 

[Coronis]

Forum posting.

Nah it was always ****. Get your nostalgia goggles off.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

There has never existed a more talented cricketer (Bradman aside) than Tendulkar. The bloke was thrown into test cricket at 16 and got a 50 against 2 ATG pacers away. He was university accepted as the finest batsman since Bradman by the time he was 30. And then he had a second peak when his contemporaries had been retired for years. Nonsensical post all around.

No one more talented than Sobers.

 

[Molehill]

No one more talented than Sobers.

Tendulkar wasn't even the most talented batsman of his era, that was another W Indian.

 

[Prince EWS]

Tendulkar wasn't even the most talented batsman of his era, that was another W Indian.

Yep, Carl Hooper 4eva.

 

[slowfinger]

crowds. not sure if this is fixable