...and a special mention for the generosity of the Pakistani wicketkeeper :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
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...and a special mention for the generosity of the Pakistani wicketkeeper :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
All change now. From 331-4 overnight to 354 all out. What a collapse!
Pakistan responding in kind - 45-5. 11 wickets in half a day's play so far. What's happened to this pitch?
Pakistan won toss and decided to bat.....
....currently 36-6!!!
The expression 'a good toss to lose' springs to mind Multi ;):D
Might be being slightly apocalyptic here but we could be witnessing the beginning of the end of world test cricket.
First the West Indies and now Pakistan - great test sides destroyed by infighting and the greed and corruption of their administrators and by the joke that is 20-20.
It would have been unthinkable even just five years ago that Pakistan would send over a test side this inexperienced and poor. Now they just don't care about test cricket, in the same way as it has been more or less abandoned by the West Indies - who not long ago were the best side in the world.
Interesting point Zed. I love test cricket and have watched on TV since the early 70s. It's move to satellite was a key factor in me taking my old set to the tip in January. It's a real shame that the Pakistan team seems in total chaos. Cricket is huge all over South Asia and as you say it's not good for the game
the subcontient is where 20-20 has been most heavily promoted - with the IPL obviously - and where it is doing the most harm to test cricketQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
there's been a massive drop-off in interest in the long game over there if you believe various august commentators on the sport - and there's no reason not to
that and the security risks now mean that India will probably barely ever play Pakistan at test cricket and, more sadly, that the cricket-watching public there will barely care whether they do or don't
and I think it's easy for us to overlook or disbelieve all that here cos we've seen such a great renaissance in test cricket in the last eight or ten years
unfortunately the Ashes could be all that's left in ten or twenty years' time
You could be right which would be a great shame. Much as I enjoy watching one day cricket I still get more pleasure from seeing England (and Yorkshire) winning in the longer form of the game. It always feels to me like the true barometer of a teamQuote:
Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo