Should ODI cricket go?

[SteveNZ]

the nostalgia for ODI cricket displayed here is sad. Depressing even. Except for womens cricket its a dead format. Deal with it. It deserved to die. Its boring compared to t20, anyway you slice it
40 overs of singles until you get to the action? why bother? dont bore me
t20 is a godsend

I find this more offensive than your puerile lesbian women's cricket **** you wheeled out (for which I'm bemused as to why you're still a member of this forum).

Welcome back from 2008, which is around the last time an ODI was '40 overs of singles'. Actually based on your persona, you're probably from much further back in the dark ages. And T20 probably fits your intellect - hurrr durr hit ball yahoo fireworks me want hot dog beer yay wicket me go home now

 

[SteveNZ]

T20s are tiktoks. ODIs are youtube vids and Tests are TV series/movies.

They all kinda have their place for different people at different times.

I feel like T20s are social media, ODIs are magazines/newspapers and Tests are books.

If you have no attention span, go on social media. It kills brain cells, the rest of the formats, but gives you that nice dopamine feel
If you want a bit more than that, read a newspaper/magazine. They're being killed off by social media, however, but there still should be a place for them with the reasonably intellectual
If you want the best of the best, you go to books. People believed social media/internet/kindles (T20) would kill it off, but there is no substitute for the best. That may not unfortunately be the case forever.

 

[Xuhaib]

Yes don't get me wrong for me odi is equal to test cricket .

However odi in its current form is a poor cousin of the game I fell in love with in 90's at the moment it's just an extended T 20 with a lot of filler period .
With advent of T 20 and the franchise leagues becoming the cash cow of cricket and overcrowding the cricket calender something has to go and in its current state odis seem to be the one that will be missed the least.

 

[davado]

I find this more offensive than your puerile lesbian women's cricket **** you wheeled out (for which I'm bemused as to why you're still a member of this forum).

Welcome back from 2008, which is around the last time an ODI was '40 overs of singles'. Actually based on your persona, you're probably from much further back in the dark ages. And T20 probably fits your intellect - hurrr durr hit ball yahoo fireworks me want hot dog beer yay wicket me go home now

why wouldnt i still be a member of this forum?
unlike you champ, i dont abuse other members when they hold differing opinions to mine.
Because im a man.
And i meant 40 boring overs until you get to the last 10 in a 50 0ver game ( obviously)
I assure you i love cricket and flatter myself that im quite knowledgable about the game - in all formats
Why would anyone care if youre offended? thats your business only. The world doesnt dance around what offends you. Noone cares what offends you. What world do you live in?
My intellect by the way has been tested as being in the top 2% of the population, if thats any of your business. Which it isnt, you rude buffoon

 

[Aritro]

I think T20s are a great format, and they're exciting as hell, take a very high level of skill (albeit batting more than bowling) and have normalised a whole different set of shots, delivery types and faster bowling. I just find them unbearable when they're played in franchise leagues, and also fairly worthless when they're played outside World Cups. But the World Cups are amazing and I find the cricket dazzling.

I stopped watching ODI cricket unless Bangladesh were playing even as a teenager tbh. I don't want them to die but I don't feel affinity for them at all

 

[trundler]

i dont abuse other members when they hold differing opinions to mine

you rude buffoon

Oh.

 

[Prince EWS]

Oh.

@sledger

 

[davado]

Oh.

if youre trying to make a point its lost on me. I could point out why it isnt one but that would infer youre an halfwit. So i wont

 

[SteveNZ]

why wouldnt i still be a member of this forum?
unlike you champ, i dont abuse other members when they hold differing opinions to mine.
Because im a man.
And i meant 40 boring overs until you get to the last 10 in a 50 0ver game ( obviously)
I assure you i love cricket and flatter myself that im quite knowledgable about the game - in all formats
Why would anyone care if youre offended? thats your business only. The world doesnt dance around what offends you. Noone cares what offends you. What world do you live in?
My intellect by the way has been tested as being in the top 2% of the population, if thats any of your business. Which it isnt, you rude buffoon

Because of your post about women's cricket. It was deeply homophobic, puerile rubbish. And as if it matters, also not factual. Incidentally, not offensive to me, because I care little about the opinions of internet fools, nor do words ever particularly hurt my feelings

But that's OK, because the last line gave me a very hearty laugh, which is all I really needed.

 

[davado]

puerile maybe but hardly homophobic. Which isnt a crime even if it was.
And if you doubt my intellect, thats ok with me. What do i care?

who are you calling puerile ?

 

[Line and Length]

I think T20 strategies are becoming more granular and finely articulated all the time. There might be an eventual cap to that because of how abridged the format inherently is, but teams at the world cup and in the bigger leagues seem to take it far more seriously than posters online.

Because of money.

 

[Line and Length]

There's an enormous difference between intellect and common sense.

 

[Prince EWS]

There might be an eventual cap to that because of how abridged the format inherently is, but teams at the world cup and in the bigger leagues seem to take it far more seriously than posters online.

Yeah and people who post on TikTok for a crust take it far more seriously than posters online too.

 

[Shri]

My intellect by the way has been tested as being in the top 2% of the population

bro do you take alpha brain

 

[Daemon]

My intellect by the way has been tested as being in the top 2% of the population

not hard in australia

 

[Adders]

I want it on record that I picked this davado dude as a knob first. All of you creaming yourselves over his reverse sweep thread will turn on him in time.......**** of the highest order.

 

[trundler]

I want it on record that I picked this davado dude as a knob first. All of you creaming yourselves over his reverse sweep thread will turn on him in time.......**** of the highest order.

>New member appears
>Adders abuses him

Shocker

 

[Uppercut]

The last World Cup was fantastic, which revealed the problem with ODIs: not a soul in the world gives a solitary **** about the result of 99% of them. Not even the teams involved. The best bowlers are either rotated or phone it in, and any vaguely interesting new ideas or tactics are saved for WC games. Sometimes it feels like a four-year exercise in playing dead. Every sport is turgid when you can't convince yourself that the result matters.

When you get a stadium full of fans and two teams giving it everything it's like a totally different game.

 

[GIMH]

The last World Cup was fantastic, which revealed the problem with ODIs: not a soul in the world gives a solitary **** about the result of 99% of them. Not even the teams involved. The best bowlers are either rotated or phone it in, and any vaguely interesting new ideas or tactics are saved for WC games. Sometimes it feels like a four-year exercise in playing dead. Every sport is turgid when you can't convince yourself that the result matters.

When you get a stadium full of fans and two teams giving it everything it's like a totally different game.

Yeah not sure if it was this thread or another where I said it but they just feel like friendlies. T20is do too but they’re quick, light entertainment. Giving up a whole day for something that doesn’t really matter is quite hard to justify. Unless you’re at the game which is a whole other matter.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah not sure if it was this thread or another where I said it but they just feel like friendlies. T20is do too but they’re quick, light entertainment. Giving up a whole day for something that doesn’t really matter is quite hard to justify. Unless you’re at the game which is a whole other matter.

Yeah ODIs just can't get away with low stakes in the way that other sports can. They're too slow. Being slow is an asset for a sport when the stakes are high, because it creates tension, but when the stakes aren't high it just creates boredom and is a huge liability.

Tests don't have this problem because they always feel like they matter. That's why this "WTC" bollocks they're trying to push is an abomination and I'm embarrassed for anyone who's fallen for it.