Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that CA have actually tried most of the things you mentioned here.
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Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that CA have actually tried most of the things you mentioned here.
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odi cricket aint being revived.
thankfully there's still interest in the odi world cup.
here's a novel idea to revive interest in odi cricket - get rid of T20's.
thankfully there's still interest in the odi world cup.
here's a novel idea to revive interest in odi cricket - get rid of T20's.
The one day domestic cup did some variation of this about 10 or 12 years ago. I think it was 25 overs one team, 25 the other, then 20 overs each to make it a split 45 over match.
Was a bit of a shambles from memory.
Cry laughing if someone thinks any of those things have any real worth.
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Cheerleaders wearing fireworks
Grand Uncle Horace
Shake down the thunder
Commentators attached to rockets fired into the Sun.
I think you'd need a time machine to revive it, putting it behind payTV and getting rid of the tr-series and also that mid/end of January window where ODIs were typically played, would be very hard to revive interest in the format now. Put it on FTA, cheaper tickets, cheaper beer ??? Profit?
juicing the pitches is a tricky one. you can make the game exciting, i can remember some amazing games with low scores. but you can also have the game over before people have spent their mortgage on stadium food/drinks.
transplanting the T20 franchises into some kind of 50 over cricket schedule would see an immediate uptick. some kind of parallel or mixed tournament where one of them has beaten others in 50 overs to face off against an australian or international opponent. ie the australian A quadrilateral tournament where the crowd were cheering for the seconds.
have a half time cricket equivalent of the home run derby. everyone blows their loads over how long sixes are. it's easily the most cricket thing yet to be stolen from american sport and to my knowledge t20 hasn't incorporated it yet. keep the balls, sign them.
transplanting the T20 franchises into some kind of 50 over cricket schedule would see an immediate uptick. some kind of parallel or mixed tournament where one of them has beaten others in 50 overs to face off against an australian or international opponent. ie the australian A quadrilateral tournament where the crowd were cheering for the seconds.
have a half time cricket equivalent of the home run derby. everyone blows their loads over how long sixes are. it's easily the most cricket thing yet to be stolen from american sport and to my knowledge t20 hasn't incorporated it yet. keep the balls, sign them.
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Sadly I am the same.Would rather watch the local stuff and same thoughts about AFL.$11 for a beer in a plastic cup,pies for $8 the prices are to much and as for admission fee even worse.
The only way to revive ODI cricket is to remove t20 cricket.
People simply don't have enough passion to care for 3 different formats, and right now ODI's are the red-headed step child that's just kinda there with people asking "what is the point of it?"
People simply don't have enough passion to care for 3 different formats, and right now ODI's are the red-headed step child that's just kinda there with people asking "what is the point of it?"
India has killed ODI with the IPL, paying all that money to players for T-20
India? Every single nation has set up t20 leagues to attract the best players. It's a world cricket problem, not an 'India' problem.
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just wait until we have official T10 comps...
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Yes but India were the main disrupters via the IPL that led to the change and have also been addicts for short form cricket v tests to a much greater degree than the other major power nations.
1. Make all the overs “power plays’. I.e keep the fielding restrictions throughout. more reward for shots but also more wickets.
2. Relax the bowling restrictions e.g. allow one or two specialist bowlers more than 10 overs each
2. Relax the bowling restrictions e.g. allow one or two specialist bowlers more than 10 overs each
Is it the next generation who have just lost interest? I feel a huge issue has been them not growing up and watching.
I grew up being outside a lot over summer with a cricket bat and ball and inviting mates round for backyard cricket. I just don’t see the same enthusiasm for that anymore. PlayStation 5, Xbox, mobile phones, social media all taking over.
On top of that, the scheduling and promotion of it is lacklustre. Way too much cricket on all year round. Didn’t we just play Zimbabwe and England in one dayers at home at lesser known stadiums? Like who is going to bother with that crap?
I grew up being outside a lot over summer with a cricket bat and ball and inviting mates round for backyard cricket. I just don’t see the same enthusiasm for that anymore. PlayStation 5, Xbox, mobile phones, social media all taking over.
On top of that, the scheduling and promotion of it is lacklustre. Way too much cricket on all year round. Didn’t we just play Zimbabwe and England in one dayers at home at lesser known stadiums? Like who is going to bother with that crap?
Yeah, that one was a real head-scratcher.
That's the beginning and end of it right there. Having three distinct formats (and then further tinkering like The Hundred) is just too much. And if you got all cricket lovers to list out which format is their most and least favourite, I'd venture a guess that ODIs would be at the top of no-one's.
For me it goes:
The Ashes
Home Tests
ODI World Cup
Away Tests
Big Bash
T20 World Cup
ODIs
T20 Internationals
But to be fair, those last two are interchangeable because I really just don't care about either of them. At all.
So who are the people out there that actually love ODI cricket? Considering only 10k showed up to the MCG last month, I'd say they don't really exist.
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You and your buddy might have figured it out if you actually read the OP, which laments "the causes, the PC stuff, the political stuff" in sport before suggesting cricket should have more boxing-type personalities.
Nobody is dumb enough to need that contradiction explained to them. Likewise, anybody who knows the name Muhammad Ali would obviously already be aware of his activism.
They did, but I don't mind it as a concept (provided its inning continuing and not effectively a two innings T20). In day/night games it reduces that issue of one side batting in daylight and one under lights.
The big problems are:
- an increase in innings breaks
- doing it at domestic level changed the game significantly from international level, it had to be reversed partly for that reason but mostly because it was a bit disruptive for momentum
You wrote this in one of your posts:
But, true, at its height there were certainly guys like Muhammad Ali who talked the talk (thankfully never got political...)
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To be fair, taking cricket to the regions is how you get people in the regions interested in cricket. Would much rather see 5000 people at a 10,000 seat stadium in Townsville for games against Zimbabwe than 5000 at the MCG.
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