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Match #25- USA vs India (D)- Nassau County Cricket Stadium, New York- June 12th-- Group A

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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
honestbharani said:
You are right. These are not theories. Just paranoid salty bs coz your side was outclassed.
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It's T20, I've already forgotten what happened. I was more salty about the fact our coach sucks, but now he says we tried to play warm ups but we had to wait for Glenn Phillips, one of the best T20 players in the world, to pull the splinters out of his arse and hop on a plane from a hit and giggle fest in India.

I understand why you don't see it but a once thriving international sport is now running it's big events as second fiddle to franchise cricket and trying to crack uncrackable markets like the USA with a subpar product on these subpar pitches. It's a bit sad.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
SteveNZ said:
It's T20, I've already forgotten what happened. I was more salty about the fact our coach sucks, but now he says we tried to play warm ups but we had to wait for Glenn Phillips, one of the best T20 players in the world, to pull the splinters out of his arse and hop on a plane from a hit and giggle fest in India.

I understand why you don't see it but a once thriving international sport is now running it's big events as second fiddle to franchise cricket and trying to crack uncrackable markets like the USA with a subpar product on these subpar pitches. It's a bit sad.
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crymore.
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
Arachnodouche said:
He has no game outside his very limited strike zone, does he? We literally have three sitting ducks in the middle order in him, Pandya, and Jadeja that any team with half a brain between them would be delighted to bowl at on these pitches.
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I can't see any justification for playing him at 5 over Rinku, if he isn't even going to ball......
 
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Socerer 01

International Captain
SteveNZ said:
It's T20, I've already forgotten what happened. I was more salty about the fact our coach sucks, but now he says we tried to play warm ups but we had to wait for Glenn Phillips, one of the best T20 players in the world, to pull the splinters out of his arse and hop on a plane from a hit and giggle fest in India.

I understand why you don't see it but a once thriving international sport is now running it's big events as second fiddle to franchise cricket and trying to crack uncrackable markets like the USA with a subpar product on these subpar pitches. It's a bit sad.
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if Australia can play a warmup with their coaches fielding due to half the team missing then NZ coulda played a warmup if they wanted to but shitting on the ipl is far more convenient i guess
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Socerer 01 said:
if Australia can play a warmup with their coaches fielding due to half the team missing then NZ coulda played a warmup if they wanted to but ****ting on the ipl is far more convenient i guess
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I'm not necessarily shitting on the IPL, although I will admit I don't like it. I'm more 'shitting on' the fact that a showpiece international tournament was organised off the back of the IPL - a club/province/franchise event - and we get to a situation where Australia plays its coaches in warm-ups, NZ doesn't play any at all etc. Gary Stead says they tried to play a warm-up, but were denied in the lead-up to the event because their players turned up late. One guy didn't play a single game for 2 months (Phillips) but still turns up late. Some (Kane, Henry, Santner) played very few.

My issue is not the IPL per se but the fact a major event is very clearly second fiddle to a franchise competition. That's an issue. Why could this tournament not have been a week or two later to allow proper preparation?

Then I can get to the issues around the clearly not up to scratch pitches, because the ICC believe they can milk a cash cow in the USA and grow the game. Hard to grow it when a powerhouse side like India scratches around to chase 110 against a minnow, and Sri Lanka gets bowled out for 70 on a corrugated iron deck.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
honestbharani said:
I reserve it for decent opinions
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So questioning the legitimacy of a 'major' international tournament where players are unavailable for the warm-up/pre-tournament build-up, and the pitches are quite clearly not up to scratch, is not decent? Or is it just contrary to your beliefs?
 
capt_Luffy

capt_Luffy

Cricketer Of The Year
SteveNZ said:
I'm not necessarily ****ting on the IPL, although I will admit I don't like it. I'm more '****ting on' the fact that a showpiece international tournament was organised off the back of the IPL - a club/province/franchise event - and we get to a situation where Australia plays its coaches in warm-ups, NZ doesn't play any at all etc. Gary Stead says they tried to play a warm-up, but were denied in the lead-up to the event because their players turned up late. One guy didn't play a single game for 2 months (Phillips) but still turns up late. Some (Kane, Henry, Santner) played very few.

My issue is not the IPL per se but the fact a major event is very clearly second fiddle to a franchise competition. That's an issue. Why could this tournament not have been a week or two later to allow proper preparation?

Then I can get to the issues around the clearly not up to scratch pitches, because the ICC believe they can milk a cash cow in the USA and grow the game. Hard to grow it when a powerhouse side like India scratches around to chase 110 against a minnow, and Sri Lanka gets bowled out for 70 on a corrugated iron deck.
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I mean, who cares?? It's a T20 WC. Technically a major event, but if any IPL is more entertaining. I also don't particularly like IPL, but as long as it doesn't effects ODIs much and Tests especially; I don't really give a damn about a cricket competition hosted in ****ing United States.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
capt_Luffy said:
I mean, who cares?? It's a T20 WC. Technically a major event, but if any IPL is more entertaining. I also don't particularly like IPL, but as long as it doesn't effects ODIs much and Tests especially; I don't really give a damn about a cricket competition hosted in ****ing United States.
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We should not care about a major international tournament in a format we're increasingly sold a story about how important and prevalent it is going to be?

And the IPL does affect ODIs, to the point they basically don't exist. Tests, gladly not as much at the moment.

I wish no one did care, so as you say we could go back to caring about formats that actually matter.

I just can't see why the IPL and World T20 had to be so close together as to cause disruption. Yeah I'm passionate about it, because I love cricket, and I'm sick of being sold slap-dash meaningless rubbish cricket as my only means of viewership.
 
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