If you could get rid of one thing from the cricketing scene...

[duffer]

You have to change society to eliminate victim mentality. It's not a problem isolated to cricket only.

 

[BoyBrumby]

WRT Duckworth/Lewis, I feel broadly about it as Churchill did about democracy: it's the worst system, apart from all the others we've tried.

As for one thing I'd like to get rid of, well it's tempting to say "Ian Healy's commentary", but I can't really see a case for preserving umpiring errors like they're some quaint relic of a simpler age, so they get my vote.

 

[Top_Cat]

Victim mentality

AWTA. HTFU. Applies to the rest of the planet too.

As for the options at hand, umpiring errors. I personally don't give a crap whether they exist or not per se but the whinging about them is just so boring.

 

[steds]

From the poll, ODIs, Indian franchise leagues and flat pitches all have a case. I'm not as fussed on umpiring errors as the pathetic whinging and moaning and constant scrutiny the umpires are put under due to them. After all, umpires are only human. Equally, I don't really think there's time in the international schedule for more warm-up games (scrapping ODIs would solve two of the above problems), but being able to field 13 players in such a match is ridiculous.

Went with ODIs in the end.

 

[andruid]

Wait a minute aren't minnows minnows because they do not have or have not had test stsus long enough to do anything worthwhile with it?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

I pushed the button, but nothing happened.

 

[Turbinator]

Hayden.

Completely hate that **** now tbh.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Awta

 

[Langeveldt]

You could remove a few guys and we'd have a better game..

Hayden
Harbhajan
Sreesanth
Symonds

 

[PhoenixFire]

Good last 3 posts.

 

[silentstriker]

Good last 4 posts.

 

[Langeveldt]

Good last 5 posts

 

[sirdj]

Duckworth Lewis for me.............saw pakistan sorta robbed of the finals birth in the U19 world cup.

Foot in mouth.........I did not see the final scores.......saw them at some 60-70 odd for 2 and then switched off.........then read somewhere that they lost.............assumed that it was because of Messrs. Duckworth-Lewis.........sorry....my bad.

 

[Arjun]

Seriously, we'd like to see the last of that Duck-worth rain rule- it ruins the excitement of matches, which were played to win, not scrape through a rain rule.

We'd also like to have the bonus points system scrapped. Some teams have manipulated it resulting in dreadful cricket, with New Zealand in the 2002 VB Series being a prime example. Net Run Rates were a lot better, and made the scene more dicey.

As for pitches, I don't mind pitches that stay the sam for the whole match. It's those dreadful win-the-toss-win-the-match pitches I hate most. Some team wins the toss, and that other team has had it. The team winning bats first and scores huge on that flat afternoon deck, and under lights, the ball moves around and the pitch gets an uneven bounc, making it nearly impossible for the other team to chase successfully. Or a pitch where the winning team inserts the other to bat on a cold, windy morning, with the ball doing strange things, getting them out to a relatively low score, then blast their bowlers around as the conditions in the chase innings are perfect for batting.

 

[Richard]

Jeeys, I've never really known what I'd do if I could only pick 1 thing.

And yes, Gelman, you can add one more:

Dropped catches

With that in mind, I'd probably stick 4 bits of paper in a hat and draw out one of: dropped catches, Umpiring errors, Twenty20 and substandard sides having Test and ODI status. And I'd seriously consider the number of un-bowler-friendly things (not just pitches, but cricket-balls) and the lack of 11-a-side, 4-day tour-games. Obviously I'd rather like to get rid of the ICL too.

Mind, a cure for dropped catches is something that'd take something currently beyond the capability of man. Maybe that'd be best. The rest (bar the removal of Twenty20) can all, and I do believe will all, be dealt with in due course.

 

[GIMH]

Gone with franchise leagues, though was sorely tempted by the last option tbh

 

[Nate]

Less International Cricket for mine. Emphasis on State. Regardless of the $$$

 

[sledger]

Harbajan Singh

 

[haroon510]

Malcom Speed and some other baised and racest icc memebers who makes decision based on skin color still despite living in 21 century..

 

[Jono]

Flat tracks, easily.

Bully-style muscle/power batting. It's almost getting to the stage where I'd rather watch the women bat because they have to use their technique to score any runs.

Out of curiosity, when did you start watching cricket? Its not that recent a phenomenon, and I don't believe its that much more prominent than 5 years ago.