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***Official*** South Africa in India 2015
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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yeah cricket fans who don't like Tests are useful idiots.
Black_Warrior
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah the casual fans, especially the ones in SC who pack the grounds for a T20 or ODI match, despite being annoying are absolutely essential for the game. We don't have fans like that in Australia and England, and that's why you hardly have anyone caring much (other than cricket aficionados) caring much when it's not the Ashes... the World Cup in Australia this year would have been a major flop without the diaspora fans.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Yeah and not every casual fan is that bad. Usually they are a lot of fun to be with as long as you don't take them too seriously. I think the ones Pratters is talking about are the ones who try and pretend to be serious fans when they are just casual fans. They are a rough lot to be around during games. Almost every game I have been to in Chennai, and its a lot, you find people like that.
indiaholic
International Captain
Nothing wrong with being a casual fan. Everybody doesn't have the time and energy to follow a sport closely. The problematic bunch are the ones who just follow a particular team and treat it as a way to channel their nationalism/regionalism. It would be wrong to call them casuals as they know, remember and are pretty knowledgeable about random CSK games but are utterly ignorant of the game as a whole.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Am I misreading this, or did you just go from describing casual fans generally to specifically describing Chennai Super King fans?
cnerd123
likes this
**** causal fans, but **** casual CSK fans in particular. Half of them aren't even from Chennai, ****s.Am I misreading this, or did you just go from describing casual fans generally to specifically describing Chennai Super King fans?
Howe_zat
Audio File
nah you get that guff everywhere. here it's chelseaAm I misreading this, or did you just go from describing casual fans generally to specifically describing Chennai Super King fans?
OverratedSanity
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So hyped for the tests. The wait has been killing me.
Any news on Ashwin's fitness yet?
Any news on Ashwin's fitness yet?
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Did you mean to quote me? not following. Just found it funny indiaholic went from complaining about casuals to specifically CSK, lol
Howe_zat
Audio File
I thought he just gave CSK as an example of a wider point though.
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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I think he started making a general point but then when he started thinking about it, CSK fans were what he was imagining and so he accidentally got specific when he elaborated. Which means Jono is right and it's funny.
Ahh the conversations we have here at CW...
Ahh the conversations we have here at CW...
Marius
International Debutant
I think South Africa's XI is fairly settled. Probably the only questions are about who will be the spinner, and whether it's time to give Rabada a debut.So what should be the starting XIs for India and South Africa for the first test?
I think they should stick with Philander and Harmer for now.
My XI would be:
Elgar
Van Zyl
Du Plessis
Amla
De Villiers
Duminy
Vilas
Philander
Harmer
Steyn
Morkel