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Worse is putting some BBL games behind the paywall. Campaigners at CA and Foxtel.
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Worse is putting some BBL games behind the paywall. Campaigners at CA and Foxtel.
- Sep 15, 2011
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ODIs will be long in the ground before Tests.
- Sep 27, 2014
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Respectfully, that's the England-Australia perspective talking. The ICC World Cup and ICC World Twenty20 make a shitload for the ICC and its members. They'll preserve them over Test cricket.
People that don't know anything about the game must just think wtf when they find out it has 3 formats.
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India are big on Tests too and I don't see South Africa going anywhere. Currently, ODIs thrive almost solely because of India, if T20 gets to a point where they don't need ODIs, it's hasta la vista.
- Sep 27, 2014
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No bigger on it than the other formats.
When I see a Test match from South Africa I see a crowd of about 500 people.
There's not going to be a stage where they don't need ODIs before they don't need Tests. That's Test fan wishful thinking. "Oh well ODIs are more like T20s than Tests are so they'll get rid of that one right??"
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It's not without merit. Tests are very very different to ODIs and T20s. But if you're looking for a fun and done game of cricket, there's not much difference between ODIs and T20. Hell, run two T20s back to back if you want to make money for the whole day.
Love me a good test match, especially days 3-4. Would much rather watch a test match over a 20/20 game that removes a lot of the tactical element.
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You'll have to vote against the Liberals in 2013 and 2016 so a decent NBN gets bui- uhhhhh too late.
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Tests are going to fade out like reading news on paper. There won't be a defining moment where it ends. The 5-match series will become a 3-match series, the 3-match series will become one match. Its audience is dying out and not being replaced by Twenty20 haters.
How much do you want to bet?
Don't blame me, I voted for Labor and Ross Lyon.
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I'll bet your life on it. The BBL will only become more normalized. In 20 years everybody under the age of about 50 will treat it like their AFL team. The "hit and giggle sucks" people will be entering aged care.
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People have to drink at Test matches. Marylebone members read newspapers.
Think I'll put out the bat signal to Doctor Gero here 
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It reminds me of how when the Crows and the Power came in the SANFL clubs went "Great! We'll use their money to fund our sides." Then 20 years later the Crows and Power went "No **** you we're keeping our money".
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It reminds me of when ODIs came in and people said it would become normalised and all the 'hit and giggle' people would enter care homes.
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ODIs have become normalized but they didn't start ODI domestic leagues that get millions of viewers and sold out stadiums.
So apparently my brothers room mate recycles mouth wash. Has a tiny little funnel with a filter and spits it back into the bottle. I'm quite alarmed and ill about the thought.
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True, but T20 didn't start that way either.
I remember going to a domestic one dayer at the WACA when I was maybe 16 or 17 and there were 10,000 people there on a weekday/night. Back when it was the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash and not the KFC Big Bash League (i.e. just the 6 states playing each other in 20 over cricket) I went to see WA vs NSW and the crowd didn't seem a lot bigger, maybe 10-15,000. Voges carted Nathan Bracken to all corners and from memory his first over was 44444.
Anyway, what has really taken off is franchise cricket. The IPL started it and the BBL and all the other new tournaments that have sprung up have piggybacked off that. People seem to like the 8 team BBL model of city based teams and player movement each year. By comparison player movement between states is mostly for opportunity or trying to play for NSW to get a test cap and who wins the Shield/Ford Ranger ING Mercantile Mutual Matador BBQs Cup isn't important relative to how the national sides are going. Having a short window of 6-8 weeks for the BBL season and a match on most nights at 7.30pm is also a ratings winner. It keeps the public's interest going. If the BBL was spread out over October to March like the rest of the cricket season it would not be nearly as popular.
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This truly disgusts me.
