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It's a really good team England have, although limited overs cricket can be a bit random so you never can be sure of winning.
I suppose cricket here is a bit like baseball in the US, if you grow up watching it then it's fun but if not it's not an easy watch. That's why limited overs was introduced. Must admit, I don't watch hardly any full Tests, they go on too long.
I suppose cricket here is a bit like baseball in the US, if you grow up watching it then it's fun but if not it's not an easy watch. That's why limited overs was introduced. Must admit, I don't watch hardly any full Tests, they go on too long.
As a child I’d watch every sport. Now I mainly watch only football and cricket. Football because it still invokes a childish joy and cricket because I’ve grown to realise how challenging the game is to play at a professional level. Every match has so many different variables that a sport like football doesn’t. The country where the game is played makes a difference, the size of the ground varies drastically from one city to the other, the way the pitch behaves from one day to the other is different, if it’s cloudy the ball behaves differently etc. To be able to take all those factors in and then condense it to a bat meets ball output is incredible.
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Limited overs cricket can be a lot of fun, but I'm very skeptical of how well the sport can do in America. There's just too much choice and already a sport filling the bat and ball niche.
Limited overs cricket can be a lot of fun, but I'm very skeptical of how well the sport can do in America. There's just too much choice and already a sport filling the bat and ball niche.
Taking a keen interest in cricket the last few years in particular the T20 world cup and the current 50 overs world cup, England have been so disappointing, at times embarrassing especially the defeat to sri lanka today, hard to see who could stop India to winning this world cup, of course anything can happen but they've been the best team to watch so far.
Indian cricket = English football
Cringe fans, overhyped/overpaid players, horrendous media/deluded pundits and most importantly bottling it when it matters the most. We borrowed all of this from England.
Congratulations to Australia for winning their 6th World cup title. Winning DNA.
Pat Cummins is probably my fav Australian captain. World Test Championship, retaining Ashes and now winning the ODI World cup in style in front of 120000 screaming Indian fans. Stuff of greatness.
Cringe fans, overhyped/overpaid players, horrendous media/deluded pundits and most importantly bottling it when it matters the most. We borrowed all of this from England.
Congratulations to Australia for winning their 6th World cup title. Winning DNA.
Pat Cummins is probably my fav Australian captain. World Test Championship, retaining Ashes and now winning the ODI World cup in style in front of 120000 screaming Indian fans. Stuff of greatness.