• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Unpopular cricket opinions

X

Xix2565

International Regular
SteveNZ said:
Respectfully, there's a big hairy monster whose name starts with T and ends with twenty that is a much more dangerous foe. Specifically, franchise cricket.
Click to expand...
Honestly this doesn't really track considering the actions of the Pig 2/3 boards ****ing up Tests predate T20 and franchise cricket. The ICC of the 1900s (Eng, Aus and SA) basically ****ed up international cricket and are just now realizing the long-term ramifications.
 
TheJediBrah

TheJediBrah

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Xix2565 said:
Honestly this doesn't really track considering the actions of the Pig 2/3 boards ****ing up Tests predate T20 and franchise cricket. The ICC of the 1900s (Eng, Aus and SA) basically ****ed up international cricket and are just now realizing the long-term ramifications.
Click to expand...
Fantastic post. So masterfully done to avoid placing blame on India.

Srs
 
X

Xix2565

International Regular
TheJediBrah said:
Fantastic post. So masterfully done to avoid placing blame on India.

Srs
Click to expand...
? Right now India's the biggest idiot in the world as far as making Tests more viable. The BCCI have the financial/political weight to generally back any reasonable proposal on making Tests viable via streaming/the Internet and they've basically put their hands in their pants and ****ed off somewhere. That they seem intent on copying the 1900s doesn't mean the 1900s cricketing powers weren't idiots as well.
 
X

Xix2565

International Regular
I mean if we're going around placing blame I don't see how the CA/ECB were doing anything with their power to open up Tests and make it more successful as a global sport, but clearly this is all about protecting the BCCI's feelings. Jay Shah can go jump off a cliff, would instantly improve the BCCI by magnitudes.
 
ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
Uncertain wtf Xix is talking about, but I think (based on 1900s, Eng-Aus-SA triumvirate) it's some beef about the failure of the 1912 Triangular series. Never expected that from him tbh.
 
X

Xix2565

International Regular
ataraxia said:
Uncertain wtf Xix is talking about, but I think (based on 1900s, Eng-Aus-SA triumvirate) it's some beef about the failure of the 1912 Triangular series. Never expected that from him tbh.
Click to expand...
The idea of having only Commonwealth teams as Test nations and basically locking out other decent cricketing nations during that period from joining the club. You know, the same sort of problems as now with smaller Test nations barely getting Tests against anyone, and the pathway to Test status basically being thrown out. Thought people would get it easily smh.
 
ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
Xix2565 said:
The idea of having only Commonwealth teams as Test nations and basically locking out other decent cricketing nations during that period from joining the club. You know, the same sort of problems as now with smaller Test nations barely getting Tests against anyone, and the pathway to Test status basically being thrown out. Thought people would get it easily smh.
Click to expand...
I don't think this is really true? There wasn't any concerted effort to attract more countries to the sport, sure, but when countries showed interest they were generally given test status fairly early on (so long as English imperialists saw the colony wanting to join as sufficiently de-attached from the empire) and played plenty tests, a large percentage against England themselves. Blaming Australia for that is also odd – while culpable for many things, they didn't have much of a say in these matters; the ICC was for a very long time the Imperial Cricket Council after all, and not that prominent.

Oh and I've implied that England suck multiple times in the above paragraph, but it's worth being explicit about the fact that England (the English state) are sucky bastards who suck big-time and their sucky paternalistic viewpoint still pervades their peoples' sucky and strangely insular outlook on (/ over) world cricket.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top