IPL winners will be the true World Champions
Chan
appears to be better than the quality of the teams that took part in
the World T20 championships. Anybody disagree?
- Chan
jzfredricks
Did u wake up just now and think to yourself "let's post the trolliest
troll troll post ever made by a troll"?
There's not a single team in the IPL that would beat Australia in a 5
game 20-20 comp.
Luke Curtis
The 4 "world championships" listed above are only played by teams in
one country (barring the odd token team from Canada), it *may* have
escaped you attention but Cricket is played in counties other than
India...
>
>- Chan
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> On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT), Chan
>
> >Just like NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL etc. The overall quality of these 8 teams
> >appears to be better than the quality of the teams that took part in
> >the World T20 championships. Anybody disagree?
>
> The 4 "world championships" listed above are only played by teams in
> one country (barring the odd token team from Canada), it *may* have
> escaped you attention but Cricket is played in counties other than
> India...
But you have to say that's a mighty big county.
>
>
>
> >- Chan
>
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Chan
That's why my proposal includes limiting the competition to best-of-
three.
Besides, how would an Australian T20 team go without Gilchrist,
Hayden, Symonds, Hopes, Marsh, Warne, McGrath, and the Hussey
brothers? I'd say even the Deccan Chargers stand a chance. Heck,
didn't Zimbabwe just beat them?
Twenty20 is the true equalizer in cricket. Drown all reputations and
strategies in a barrage of boundaries. And now the bowlers are coming
into their own as well. I am starting to see the value in it all.
- Chan
tendulkar.com
I would fancy any IPL's teams chances against Australia minus Symonds,
Ponting, Gilchrist, Hussey, Hayden, Bracken, Lee (After all they would
be playing for their franchise)
jzfredricks
> strategies in a barrage of boundaries. And now the bowlers are coming
> into their own as well. I am starting to see the value in it all.
I like 20-20. Not as much as Tests, but a LOT more than 50 over ODIs.
Please don't make the mistake of calling it an 'equalizer' when all it
really is is a form of cricket that promotes risky shot making. As
that's all it is. Actually, in a way it IS an 'equalizer', but in a
bad way.
Take last night's game for example - Mishra being lucky enough to bowl
the last over. He gets HANDED a hatrick. His bowling was fairly
average, but the tail end batsmen needed over 3 runs per ball.
Tests are called that because they are. 20-20 is a fun, exciting,
anyone-can-win-hit-in-the-park.
tendulkar.com
Tests are like Government jobs. Nobody cares how much time you take to
finish your job. As a batsman, it is very easy to score runs (except
on the first morning and the final two sessions). Any idiot can score
a century in a test match (Even Agarkar, Kumble have scored test match
hundreds) There are plenty of open spaces where you get free runs.
As a bowler, you don't have to worry about bowling gimmes. You can
bowl utter tripe and still bowl a maiden over. Then either on first
day morning or final day you get plenty of help from the pitch. Just
bowl straight and the pitch will get wickets for you. As a batsman you
only need two skills, (i) leave the ball not on stumps (ii) defend the
ball which is on stumps
Since test matches are so boring, players like to create artificial
excitement like having close-in fielders or five slips or bowling
bouncers which is really no test of skills but just artificial drama.
Since Test matches have so much time, players like to dig a hole and
see how they can get out of it and that usually creates artificial
results
Chan
> > Twenty20 is the true equalizer in cricket. Drown all reputations and
> > strategies in a barrage of boundaries. And now the bowlers are coming
> > into their own as well. I am starting to see the value in it all.
>
> I like 20-20. Not as much as Tests, but a LOT more than 50 over ODIs.
>
> Please don't make the mistake of calling it an 'equalizer' when all it
> really is is a form of cricket that promotes risky shot making. As
> that's all it is. Actually, in a way it IS an 'equalizer', but in a
> bad way.
>
> Take last night's game for example - Mishra being lucky enough to bowl
> the last over. He gets HANDED a hatrick. His bowling was fairly
> average, but the tail end batsmen needed over 3 runs per ball.
>
Was he handed his first two wickets too? Give the man some credit.
> 20-20 is a fun, exciting, anyone-can-win-hit-in-the-park.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
- Chan
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>
> Take last night's game for example - Mishra being lucky enough to bowl
> the last over. He gets HANDED a hatrick. His bowling was fairly
> average, but the tail end batsmen needed over 3 runs per ball.
>
er, last i checked, 15 runs in an over is not "over 3 runs per ball".
this was not much different than symonds being *handed* a hat-trick (oops, i
mean handing out a hat-trick of boundaries) in the last over three weeks ago
with the tail-end batsmen needing almost 3 runs per ball.
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