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Should cricket end drawn tests?
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Burgey
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honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Yeah... tests are fine. Let them be.
TheJediBrah
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Does anyone else think this joke is getting a bit stupid and ugly
honestbharani
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You are just asking for it, aren't you?
GIMH
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Were you against DRS on that basis, out of interest? (or would you have been, as without being patronising I guess you may not have strong memories of pre-DRS Test cricket?)
TheJediBrah
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I wouldn't say DRS altered the "fundamental fabric" of Test cricket. Pretty minor change in the grand scheme, just means you get less bad decisions
GIMH
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Changing from ‘the umpire’s decision is final’ is pretty fundamental imo
ImpatientLime
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imagine living in a world without 185* or ABDV and FAFs rearguards at adelaide
not for me gary
not for me gary
trundler
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That's actually a pretty good counter point I hadn't considered tbh. The only thing I recall from those days is BCCI's reluctance to implement DRS. I wouldn't be for injury replacements though.
honestbharani
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I think there is a difference between technological advancements & taking advantage of those to make the game better like 3rd umpires DRS etc and actually moving away an entire result of a game.
We must never fully give in to the short attention span 'give us a result and give it to us now' generation.
**** no. No no no. That dopamine generation have already done so much damage to the game, and now they've shoe-horned the ****ing Ashes around some gross Hundred BS the Poms think is 'cool'...no no no **** no. Leave our Tests alone.
**** no. No no no. That dopamine generation have already done so much damage to the game, and now they've shoe-horned the ****ing Ashes around some gross Hundred BS the Poms think is 'cool'...no no no **** no. Leave our Tests alone.
fredfertang
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There are formats of the game for people who don't like/understand draws - they should stick to them and leave the rest of us in peace
Red
The normal awards that everyone else has
Most team sports should be happy with draws or ties as legitimate results. There’s no need to contrive a result (like stupid super overs or whatever).
If at the end of a contest scores are level or, as in test cricket, one team hasn’t met criteria for victory, that’s it.
Test cricket would become a significantly less interesting game if we moved to a win from first innings leads if no result. It’d lose everything that makes it unique.
Having to dismiss a team twice to win is a massive part of what makes test cricket the best game ever.
If at the end of a contest scores are level or, as in test cricket, one team hasn’t met criteria for victory, that’s it.
Test cricket would become a significantly less interesting game if we moved to a win from first innings leads if no result. It’d lose everything that makes it unique.
Having to dismiss a team twice to win is a massive part of what makes test cricket the best game ever.
This should be written into the constitution of cricket, if that exists.
Don't you think it's a modern 'I want gratification, and I want it now' viewpoint? I don't remember a draw being an issue in the 80s and 90s, before the dopamine era of likes, dings and comment sections.
We see it in rugby league in golden point, and really it just turns into a **** fest with the team who can snap a drop goal the quickest, which is pretty rubbish to watch and actually not the skill that is key to the game at all. I get why there is penalty shootouts in football in knockouts etc, but I don't think there should be any major issues with draws.
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This is a massive understatement. It wouldn't just make the game less interesting, it would destroy it. As soon as 1 team got the 1st innings lead the game would change to them only playing for a draw and the other team having to make all the running. As we know from Shield finals in the past, that is just **** cricket.