Cricket Thread: Indian Summer

[Cap]

Interesting thoughts by Vaughan.

How many tests go to a 5th day now?

'Let's be honest': English great's push for major change

'They don't play like I used to'

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This kind of stuff is why I can't stand English cricket commentators.

They really think so highly of themselves. I mean seriously Vaughan, got a Knighthood because Glen McGrath rolled his ankle.

 

[Interloperer]

Interesting thoughts by Vaughan.

How many tests go to a 5th day now?

'Let's be honest': English great's push for major change

'They don't play like I used to'

wwos.nine.com.au

Depends where you are in the world and what ground. Almost all tests in Pakistan are 5 day low-RR slogs.

Also Pretty sure Vaughan can only get work in Australia, so he's likely just a mouthpiece for his employers opinions.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Depends where you are in the world and what ground. Almost all tests in Pakistan are 5 day low-RR slogs.

Also Pretty sure Vaughan can only get work in Australia, so he's likely just a mouthpiece for his employers opinions.

He resigned from the BBC when the racism/County cricket story broke

The charge against him has since been thrown out so not sure what he'll do in the future

 

[GreyCrow]

The 5th day is usually written off by stadium management - and this is who is driving this along with media - not the Cricket Bodies nor the players

I see this as a further push towards ' fast cricket ' because there is this feeling that spectators cant ' handle ' 4 days - its not going to change scheduling because weekends are revenue days

 

[dude316]

Can’t believe The Ashes next year is on a Wednesday morning here. No way the crowds will be as good as this year’s match.
Is there any reason they did that?

 

[Cromulant]

Can’t believe The Ashes next year is on a Wednesday morning here. No way the crowds will be as good as this year’s match.
Is there any reason they did that?

School holidays ??

 

[dude316]

School holidays ??

Doesn’t help me! We’re going to have a fight at work who gets the time off.

 

[Cromulant]

Doesn’t help me! We’re going to have a fight at work who gets the time off.

Me too, but that would be the reason

 

[brucetiki]

The 5th day is usually written off by stadium management - and this is who is driving this along with media - not the Cricket Bodies nor the players

I see this as a further push towards ' fast cricket ' because there is this feeling that spectators cant ' handle ' 4 days - its not going to change scheduling because weekends are revenue days

Wouldn't changing it to 4 days just make the 4th day a write off for stadium management?

 

[GreyCrow]

Wouldn't changing it to 4 days just make the 4th day a write off for stadium management?

Not really

A write off is a Gold Coin donation for a 2 hour window while paying staff to attend

On the 4th day one would assume most matches finish towards the end of the day rather than the start

 

[Cap]

Travis Head apparently got two ducks last test match at the Gabba.

Hopefully that changes.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Travis Head apparently got two ducks last test match at the Gabba.

Hopefully that changes.

He was still hungover from the World Cup

 

[Cap]

Australia batting first as India win toss, ring changes | cricket.com.au

India make two changes with a return for Ravindra Jadeja while Josh Hazlewood returns for Australia

www.cricket.com.au

good luck McSweeney

 

[spenze]

Brave decision to bowl first at the Gabba

 

[Cap]

Brave decision to bowl first at the Gabba

I thought Australia would have bowled first too

 

[spenze]

Raining at the Gabba, whale oil beef hooked

 

[Eagleboy2011]

The Rain in BrisBane falls mainly on the plain.

 

[StonesThrow]

I don't know why so many people want to move to qld.

 

[Cromulant]

I don't know why so many people want to move to qld.

Because it's warm and horrendously humid all year.

 

[Cromulant]

Surely they've gotta build a new stadium with a roof on it

 

[GreyCrow]

Surely they've gotta build a new stadium with a roof on it

They dont even want to spend money on an Olympic stadium

Even with a great group of sprinters coming through

 

[Concussion test]

Travis Head apparently got two ducks last test match at the Gabba.

Hopefully that changes.

By the look of the Gabba I'd be recommending a Beretta A400 with a 32-gram load

 

[Thrillthorpe7]

This kind of stuff is why I can't stand English cricket commentators.

They really think so highly of themselves. I mean seriously Vaughan, got a Knighthood because Glen McGrath rolled his ankle.

It's not just Vaughan who thinks this (and he's actually a brilliant commentator and very funny on the Club Prairie Fire pod with Gilly), Mark Taylor has said it for a while too. Regardless of what people think, only 30% of Tests over the last 5 years have gone to a 5th day (some of those were rain impacted too). Teams are increasingly pushing for results and play a more aggressive brand of cricket.

 

[Thrillthorpe7]

Depends where you are in the world and what ground. Almost all tests in Pakistan are 5 day low-RR slogs.

Also Pretty sure Vaughan can only get work in Australia, so he's likely just a mouthpiece for his employers opinions.

Unless they turn the industrial fans and heaters on the pitch and produce a dustbowl.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I don't know why so many people want to move to qld.

If I move anywhere, it's going to be somewhere colder.