Cricket World Cup > Ashes

[Treasurer]

The Ashes is easily the most overrated sporting event on our calender. It does well with bogans but in terms of international popularity it hardly rates on the raidar. The Cricket World Cup is the most prestigious event and ODI is the most popular format on the sub continient. This is the highlight of the summer and has been of paramount importance for the Australian team. Hence the limited injuries and peaking team we are sending compared to our gulliable English counterparts.

The real stuff starts now. A win i nthsi tournament means where the best cricketing nation for the next 4 years. simpel as that.

 

[Bucking Beads]

You are a turkey, The Cricket World Cup is pathetic it goes for 3 months and has more pointless games than any Tournament in the world.

 

[Treasurer]

Only one good Ashes series in 30 years doesn't make it the pinnacle of Cricket. There are better teams than England anyway such as South Africa, India, Sri Lanka.

You're all just a bunch of stupid bogans who have seccumb to silly Marketing.

The Ashes up until 2005 was never the pinnacle of Cricket and it never will be.

Why should it suddenly be soo big now? Piss off.

 

[CAS79]

Apparently it's Bogans who like test cricket

I like the world cup but the World cup is still just a condensed version of real cricket.

for a number of years no doubt the ashes were hardly the highest level of cricket played but hard core Test series when the best teams are playing has a real auroa of competition, skill and endurance the short versions of the game will never have.

And as for the best in the world for the next 4 years. Who thought that about India when they won 1983, Australia in 1987 or Pakistan in 1992 (I mean come on, it was almost England)... Sri Lanka in 1996?

That's right, The West Indies were the best of the 1980s and no arguments despite not having won a world cup in that decade. Australia did not win one until the last year of the 90s yet we all know who was the best rated team. Why is that so... Because they were the sides winning test matches.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Only one good Ashes series in 30 years doesn't make it the pinnacle of Cricket. There are better teams than England anyway such as South Africa, India, Sri Lanka.

You're all just a bunch of stupid bogans who have seccumb to silly Marketing.

The Ashes up until 2005 was never the pinnacle of Cricket and it never will be.

Why should it suddenly be soo big now? Piss off.

Are you an Aussies?? If so take a good long hard look at yourself. It is as big as it is because of the feeling us Aussies get when we beat the poms or even lose to them. I'd much rather the Aussies had won the Ashes this summer then win a 4th World cup in a row.

 

[redragger]

The Ashes is easily the most overrated sporting event on our calender. It does well with bogans but in terms of international popularity it hardly rates on the raidar. The Cricket World Cup is the most prestigious event and ODI is the most popular format on the sub continient. This is the highlight of the summer and has been of paramount importance for the Australian team. Hence the limited injuries and peaking team we are sending compared to our gulliable English counterparts.

The real stuff starts now. A win i nthsi tournament means where the best cricketing nation for the next 4 years. simpel as that.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

The Ashes is easily the most overrated sporting event on our calender.

Stopped reading here.

 

[Tazwegian]

Troll thread fails.

 

[Cleavy]

simpel as that.

definitely

 

[Bomber Bears]

trollers gotta troll

 

[Jatz]

ridiculous

 

[Indian_Hotdog]

Finally an honest aussie.I wish more would come out of the closet.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Finally an honest aussie.I wish more would come out of the closet.

An Indian questioning honesty

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Its simple. Test cricket is more important than limited overs cricket.
A Bangladesh v West Indies Test series is more important than the world cup. Not more popular, not necessarily more watchable, but far more important.

Cricketing equivalent in footy terms:
T20 = training session
ODI = NAB Cup
World Cup = H&A
Tests = Finals

 

[Gazza_11]

That's just stupid. West Indies v Bangladesh isn't going to do jack shit to the rankings, player form or their general rating. A game like the Aus v South Africa one in 2006 actually makes a difference.

Test and ODI's are important as each other, it's just how each team approaches them that should be differen.t

 

[XFactor1979]

The problem with the Cricket World Cup is the group stage

Right now the tournament is meaningless UNTIL the quarter final stages

I think they could have cut a week or two off the scheduling as well. To do that they can play so many more matches on the same day (ie 4 games) during the group stage.

However with the tournament being played in India and with the desire to maximise tv revenue they have prolonged the tournament

I think the next Cricket 50-50 WC will hopefully rectify the issues associated with the length of the tournament

 

[Belnakor]

Australia have only played what? 2 close games in the past 3 world cups. The Semi in 1999, and the England game in the group stages in 2003. Every other match we've played has been completely one sided.

 

[Treasurer]

I would worry about the state of Cricket if Australia v England is the pinnacle.

Anyone who thinks the ashes is the pinnacle of cricket is a clown.

The World Cup is king.

 

[Ill Chicken]

Australia have only played what? 2 close games in the past 3 world cups. The Semi in 1999, and the England game in the group stages in 2003. Every other match we've played has been completely one sided.

I disagree. Some matches indeed look like thrashings but take a game like Australia racking up 377 against South Africa, yet in reply, SA were 160 without loss in 20 overs. They ended up losing by 80 runs, but it was still a fair game. Games against NZ, England, Sri Lanka (semi) and Pakistan in the 2003 WC were of high quality.

The super sixes in 99, Australia chased 272, winning with 2 balls to spare. Hardly a one side match, along with the fact we had to win every game up to that point to make the semi final.

As for the OP, the World Cup is the pinnacle of cricket, it has to be, personal series like the Ashes or Border/Gavaskar Trophy are great for the respected countries cricket but for the game as a whole, the World Cup is it.

 

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[themightybloods]

The problem with the Cricket World Cup is the group stage

Right now the tournament is meaningless UNTIL the quarter final stages

I think they could have cut a week or two off the scheduling as well. To do that they can play so many more matches on the same day (ie 4 games) during the group stage.

However with the tournament being played in India and with the desire to maximise tv revenue they have prolonged the tournament

I think the next Cricket 50-50 WC will hopefully rectify the issues associated with the length of the tournament

totally agree with everything, however the next wc is the 2015 edition in australia/new zealand. It will only be 10 teams and everyone will play each other once before the top 4 progress through to the semi's. So that is 48 matches, which will probably last for the same amount of time.

 

[XFactor1979]

totally agree with everything, however the next wc is the 2015 edition in australia/new zealand. It will only be 10 teams and everyone will play each other once before the top 4 progress through to the semi's. So that is 48 matches, which will probably last for the same amount of time.

I dont know why they keep changing the format of the tournament!

The 1992 World cup was 100% fine

They (or more of: The muthaeffing BCCI) tinkered with it so much because of wanting to effing make a buck from sponsorships, endorsements and advertising money The 2007 World Cup was absolutely disgraceful

 

[Indian_Hotdog]

I dont know why they keep changing the format of the tournament!

The 1992 World cup was 100% fine

yeah only it happened to produce the least deserving winners of a WC ever

 

[Cleavy]

They (or more of: The muthaeffing BCCI) tinkered with it so much because of wanting to effing make a buck from sponsorships, endorsements and advertising money The 2007 World Cup was absolutely disgraceful

and lost the WICB a lot of money, if memory serves me right

 

[damochandler]

ah no

test cricket of any series and especially the ashes is way better than the world cup

this thread just looks like a sook about being beaten by our old enemy