But it's also much more difficult to get those "more points" from a longer series because long series are usually played between Eng-Aus-Ind and it's very competitive. So, if someone does manage to get those points, they very much deserve those points considering how much easier it is to win a short series.
Just reiterates what we've been saying from the beginning. Unless every team plays every other team an equal amount home and away with an equal number of matches, there's always going to be somewhat of an imbalance.
nah, if we've seen anything last decade it's that the longer a shambles has the allowance to run, the more likely it is to keep running. sooooo many blowout 5-0, 4-0 type victories.
they would smash us, like they did when mccullum is captain. in cricket nz is rock to australias sandpaper.
SA got lucky that series.
Can't we savour the moment and forget about Australia for a bit....oh wait, we're headed there in 10 days for our token 3 ODIs for the decade. So um, any idea who the current holder of the Chappell Hadlee trophy is?
lol ok. I'm sorry for not following everyone of his interviews, I obviously know nothing. Nah, lets be real here, I don't disagree with your assessment of Kohli taking immense pride in Test cricket and being competitive etc. but to think he's not prone to the odd bout of arrogance and petulance on the field is another thing. A lot of the time those reasons (not saying it's being used here like that) IE "ultra competitive" are used to justify being a dick. Kohli is brash and aggressive, sometimes it spills over. It's ok. No ones saying he's an evil dictator with no soul (that would be Shastri lol).
This is how I feel. The idea that everything should be equal is by definition going against the sheer variety that cricket is built upon, particularly Test Cricket. Most of what makes Test cricket great is context and much of that comes from the variety thrown up by some of the games uncontrollable things.
Generally agree. I've never really warmed to Kohli's conduct as a captain. Not to say that he's Steve Smith or anything. But the way he reacts to his own players making mistakes has never appealed to me.
I definitely feel like he has a negative impact on his players with his aggressive captaincy, as it doesn't really fit a lot of them, and they end up doing worse by trying to keep up with it, He seems to equate a lack of aggressiveness as playing badly (i.e, Pujara), which is such a weird mindset in a game that lasts 5 days. Sure it works for a fair few batsmen, but why shouldn't batsmen who like to grind down the bowlers play that way? If anything it is what they were missing in NZ
While I think the gist of this post is somewhat accurate, in the context of getting clean sweeps and hence more points from the system under discussion I don't think it's true at all.
I'm not getting the context for this post. What is it about? I just see a lot of words
