Well today we saw over 600 runs scored and you can't tell me that that is not more entertaining, which were my words, than watching a team struggling at 3 runs per over and getting bowled out cheaply. The punters don't want blocking and leaving in a one day game, they want runs and lots of them and thats what puts bums on seats and today thankfully they were given a track they could score runs on and cricket was the winner.
I didn't find today too exciting at all tbh. Besides a few moments in the Indian chase when it looked like India could pull it off, the result was never really in doubt. Whereas quite a few of the lower scoring matches were heart in mouth stuff.
You miss my point, I am talking about entertainment, watching the aussies put on 300+ in the first innings was a hell of alot better than watching a team struggle to 200 or less, and those low scoring games never got that close in the end.
A contest between bat and ball is alot more entertaining than constant boundaries on a flat pitch which tests the batsmen very little and completely eliminates the efforts of the bowlers. These matches are fine every once in a while, but on the whole they get very boring very quickly especially as most of the time the result isn't in doubt.
I think you are dead right and come the next world cup (in the 50 over form that is) India will be so much better off for giving these young blokes the experience now rather than in a year or two when Dravid and Gangully retire anyway, good forward thinking by Indian cricket I think.
Well I don't know who made you an authority on what a contest is but that is your opinion and thats fair enough, we will have to agree to disagree here because i think the game needs to flow more to give the entertainment other wise they may aswell wear there whites and play with a red ball because all you really have is one day test cricket. But thats my opinion and I'm entitled to it.
I always find people stamping their feet and stating their right to an opinion amusing, particularly on a forum. No-one is telling you that you don't have a right to your opinion, Dusty Lee - what they are doing is giving their opinion on your opinion, and in this case, pasag believes it to be wrong.
Sitting on the bench this tournament certainly inflated their values for the ipl.so that is a positive.
Someone has to do it. You can't play 14 players in a match and you can't select a squad of 11. They were brought over as part of the squad to cover for injuries. Again, someone has to do it, and I'm sure they'd have taken this opportunity over not coming at all.
No, I don't find fours and sixes more entertaining than the ball beating the bat more often than not.
Lol, so true.
.... And who can forget when Ind chased that 310 odd against Pak at Dhaka. Other memorable tournament for me was the WC03 and I found the games with good scores more entertaining then the low scoring affairs like Ind vs NZ at Joberg. Well, even the series b4 that WC in NZ was disappointingly from a general spectators' PoV coz of the greentops out there that produced low scoring games. Just to add, it was Tendulkar's 90 odd against Pak thats imprinted in most fans memory than the outstanding spell that Nehra, Zak & Srinath bowled against Eng
Yeah he is only gonna get fat, when he is going to sit on the bench and not move his clumsy ass.
Yeah well your point is valid too, but when in all the Odi games targets of 270+ get posted, then the game starts to become a bit predictable in the sense that its all about going hammer and tonks for the batsmen and in that scenario damage control is the only thing in the minds of the bowlers, though that could be fun too like it proved out to be the case tonight's game's but a few low-scoring games now and then [between two evenly matched sides} can also be exciting.
