somebody in the powers wakes up and do the lip service on test cricket health time to time... to make us believe that its still alive...
they talk about the threat to the tradition of test cricket is from a new born like t20... then they look deep and talk about the threat is coming from ipl... basically they blame all and sundry and go back to their rooms thinking they have done their deed and watch a thrilling t20... to entertain themselves... and if they plan to sleep peacefully... a test match...
i too used to believe test cricket is alive... but then i woke up and found its corpse lying in front of me... broadcast live on tv near me... though some don't believe and still go to grounds to actually see it lying dead in front of their eyes...
do you still believe what you see these days are the 'test' matches in real sense...?
its basically a stage to massage the egos of pretenders in the name of batsmen to swell their averages and heads on 'deadliest' strips... coz moment the ball start to do the talking you see these 'test' matches closing in two and half days or at most three days...
i sometimes wonder why not they play with bowling machines on these 'sporting' tracks... at least it will be convenient and consistent...
why make humans in the name of bowlers toil for five days aimlessly when the similar results can be achieved from employing bowling machines without much fuss and sweat...?
the matches will run full five days as usual... so the interest of broadcasters who buys the rights in eye popping figures... sponsors too who put lots of money on the telecasts that we sometimes see free of cost to watch a five ball over... and so will be the interest of in-stadia advertisers more than ever... good money will be raised which can be pumped to save ailing test cricket... making it win-win situation for everybody involved in the game worrying about its health and its tradition...
and the cycle will be completed...
lets pretend for the sake of test cricket...
shared by straight point on Thursday, November 19, 2009
for test cricket sake... hope someone at bcci see ashes...
shared by straight point on Thursday, July 09, 2009
apart from the tight first day at cardiff...what was overwhelming to see that spectators turning in in quite numbers...to re-assure that given the right media hype...right venues...and promise of a competitive cricket...test cricket's days are far from over...
but then there exists boards like bcci too...who is killing the test cricket softly in india...by choosing the wrong venues to play test cricket on...
its not that spectators don't turn up for test matches in india...its also a myth that indian fans are not large hearted cricket fans and can't cheer good cricket by opposition team...
for example...who can forget the standing ovation pak team received in packed chennai stadium after beating india...
its that bcci playing test cricket at wrong venues owing to crappy venue rotation policy...rather than on ones which has tradition of sport loving fans...turning up for a good day of test match...
how i wish them implement this rotation policy, they follow religiously for venues, on some overworked and jaded players specially bowlers...but that's another matter...
they are happy projecting sachin tendulkar raising his bat to empty stadium on achieving never before 12000 runs in test cricket...
they are happy airing empty stadiums while india thrashing world champions at home...as if they don't care about crowd coming in once the tv rights are sold for huge sum of money...
otherwise what can explain that they don't even understand the psyche of their own cricket loving fans...cricketing tradition of their own venues...?
what worse it will impact their inner politics if they fix test venues to say kolkotta, chennai, mumbai and delhi (if its four test series...very little chance they would agree to) and implement the venue rotation policy on odis, t20s, ipls which they play throughout the years...?
this way they will have to compromise the 'vote bank' for only two or three test matches per series and some times not even that...against minimum 7 odis and at least two t20 per series which has become norm of late...and countless ipl games...to compensate for this great 'compromise' they will have to make for saving test cricket in india...
so bcci...is it deal...or am i asking too much...?
Test Cricket Health...
shared by straight point on Monday, March 31, 2008
another boring draw on dead pitch and the knives are out...
every other voice is either mourning the death of test cricket or seeing it...
but to me test cricket is already in bad shape...
before you jump on me with already out knives...
please wait a moment...
zimbabwe aren't playing test cricket...i doubt (no, fear) they will...
bangladesh resolutely sticking to infancy level...
nz is exploring new lows every time they play test...
...and west indies ensuring there is a tough competition with nz even for this...
pak is either seeing tours getting canceled or busy issuing threats of doing same...
SL had most thrilling test series in oz where they at last found a man who can stand against them...
england recently invented a new cure of insomnia...but still won next best 'ashes' defeating nz...
pretty 'good' health i must say...isn't it...?
