Dumbing down of cricket
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An interesting article from today's Times about how cricket is being simplified for the modern era. I guess it was a matter of time until the stately game was deemed to smart for its own good. Apparently "Mums and kids" are too stupid to be able to follow it.
Catchy new jargon dismissed as dumbing down of cricket
The language of cricket is being rewritten for a competition aimed at luring new fans to the game.
Catchy new jargon dismissed as dumbing down of cricket
Elizabeth Ammon
No longer will a team be described as being 93 runs for three wickets from 10 overs. Instead it will be 75 runs from 60 balls for three outs. The competition, which will be played by eight new city-based teams set up by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced last year it would be doing away with six-ball overs. The Hundred will feature 100-ball innings with blocks of ten balls bowled from alternate ends of the ground with the 100 balls counted down on a big screen.The ECB is hoping for a large new television audience as the BBC has the rights to show ten matches including the final live on their main terrestrial channels. Matches will be shown during prime evening slots.
To try to appeal to a new audience they want commentators on BBC and Sky to move away from the traditional ways of describing the game.
The tournament has been described as a gimmick by many existing cricket supporters who express concerns about a dumbing down and “Americanisation” of what is the country’s national summer sport.There was widespread criticism from cricket fans on social media yesterday who believe this change in vocabulary was turning the game into something more akin to rounders or baseball.
Statisticians are unwilling to set up an entire new system for the competition, however, so while during the tournament wickets will be referred to as “outs” in the stadium and as part of the television and radio broadcasts, they will still need to be recorded as wickets by scorers and in online player databases. Although a number of radical ideas, such as removing LBW as a mode of dismissal on the grounds it was too complex, have been rejected, the ECB will continue to use focus groups to determine whether there are other aspects of the game that they want to simplify.
Concepts already being used in Australia’s Big Bash competition such as “x-factor substitutions”, whereby a substitute can be brought into the team halfway through an innings, may also be considered.
The tournament will hold the men’s and women’s matches on the same days at the same venues with live entertainment aimed at children and young people in between the two matches.
There will be 68 matches played over five weeks in the school summer holidays with each team playing four home and four away matches before knockout games leading to a final at Lord’s on August 21.
The Hundred, which was due to start last year but was postponed because of Covid-19, has suffered PR gaffes. After it was announced in 2018, the organisers originally said that the tournament was not aimed at existing cricket fans and that the game needed to be simplified and made shorter for “mums and kids”.
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@jc said in Dumbing down of cricket:
An interesting article from today's Times about how cricket is being simplified for the modern era. I guess it was a matter of time until the stately game was deemed to smart for its own good. Apparently "Mums and kids" are too stupid to be able to follow it.
Catchy new jargon dismissed as dumbing down of cricket
The language of cricket is being rewritten for a competition aimed at luring new fans to the game.
Catchy new jargon dismissed as dumbing down of cricket
Elizabeth Ammon
No longer will a team be described as being 93 runs for three wickets from 10 overs. Instead it will be 75 runs from 60 balls for three outs. The competition, which will be played by eight new city-based teams set up by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced last year it would be doing away with six-ball overs. The Hundred will feature 100-ball innings with blocks of ten balls bowled from alternate ends of the ground with the 100 balls counted down on a big screen.The ECB is hoping for a large new television audience as the BBC has the rights to show ten matches including the final live on their main terrestrial channels. Matches will be shown during prime evening slots.
To try to appeal to a new audience they want commentators on BBC and Sky to move away from the traditional ways of describing the game.
The tournament has been described as a gimmick by many existing cricket supporters who express concerns about a dumbing down and “Americanisation” of what is the country’s national summer sport.There was widespread criticism from cricket fans on social media yesterday who believe this change in vocabulary was turning the game into something more akin to rounders or baseball.
Statisticians are unwilling to set up an entire new system for the competition, however, so while during the tournament wickets will be referred to as “outs” in the stadium and as part of the television and radio broadcasts, they will still need to be recorded as wickets by scorers and in online player databases. Although a number of radical ideas, such as removing LBW as a mode of dismissal on the grounds it was too complex, have been rejected, the ECB will continue to use focus groups to determine whether there are other aspects of the game that they want to simplify.
Concepts already being used in Australia’s Big Bash competition such as “x-factor substitutions”, whereby a substitute can be brought into the team halfway through an innings, may also be considered.
The tournament will hold the men’s and women’s matches on the same days at the same venues with live entertainment aimed at children and young people in between the two matches.
There will be 68 matches played over five weeks in the school summer holidays with each team playing four home and four away matches before knockout games leading to a final at Lord’s on August 21.
The Hundred, which was due to start last year but was postponed because of Covid-19, has suffered PR gaffes. After it was announced in 2018, the organisers originally said that the tournament was not aimed at existing cricket fans and that the game needed to be simplified and made shorter for “mums and kids”.
Can you just save me the hassle of replying and move this to the Grumpy Old Man thread where it belongs ? Fucken hell.......I hope this idea goes the way of Cricket Max.
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@sparky said in Dumbing down of cricket:
What I don't get in all this is the ECB's obsession with chasing a potential new audience for Cricket ahead of the millions of fans who know and love the game.
I’m no expert but I’d say over a billion Indians contribute a fair bit to a game that ain’t broke and doesn’t need fixing.
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Cricket is a great game because of its depth. You simplify it you lose nearly every die hard fan out there, exactly the type of fan you don't want to lose for fair weather fans that don't care enough about the game to even understand the simple concepts of wickets and overs.
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Minutes are 60 seconds long, are we trying to make them 100 seconds now too?
It's literally easier to count to six than 10 (ask my 2 year old son).
It's literally easier to count to 50 than 100, ask my 2 year old son.
How fucking ridiculous. Go broke you fluffybunnies.
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@gt12 said in Dumbing down of cricket:
Minutes are 60 seconds long, are we trying to make them 100 seconds now too?
It's literally easier to count to six than 10 (ask my 2 year old son).
It's literally easier to count to 50 than 100, ask my 2 year old son.
How fucking ridiculous. Go broke you fluffybunnies.
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@booboo said in Dumbing down of cricket:
@gt12 said in Dumbing down of cricket:
Minutes are 60 seconds long, are we trying to make them 100 seconds now too?
It's literally easier to count to six than 10 (ask my 2 year old son).
It's literally easier to count to 50 than 100, ask my 2 year old son.
How fucking ridiculous. Go broke you fluffybunnies.
Don’t... you...even...start @booboo .
That’s crazy talk.
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I was going to comment on this yesterday but I was actually speechless / typeless (new word).
They are trying to decimalise cricket and yet they still use statute miles to drive. A measurement based on some Roman blokes "pace", which was in turn based on his foot. They could have used nautical miles which actually make sense, if they couldn't understand the metric system.
Why does everything have to based on the lowest common denominator (I'm being polite I should just say fucking morons)? Should we stop playing chess because it is too hard and make everyone play checkers?
I suspect most will exercise their right to not watch this shit.
How many forms of "cricket", this isn't, really, do we need? What next a one ball game, for those that can only count that high?
I seem to have found my voice about this. Extremely GOM. I'll stop now before I rupture something.
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@snowy said in Dumbing down of cricket:
I was going to comment on this yesterday but I was actually speechless / typeless (new word).
They are trying to decimalise cricket and yet they still use statute miles to drive. A measurement based on some Roman blokes "pace", which was in turn based on his foot. They could have used nautical miles which actually make sense, if they couldn't understand the metric system.
Why does everything have to based on the lowest common denominator (I'm being polite I should just say fucking morons)? Should we stop playing chess because it is too hard and make everyone play checkers?
I suspect most will exercise their right to not watch this shit.
How many forms of "cricket", this isn't really do we need? What next a one ball game, for those that can only count that high?
I seem to have found my voice about this. Extremely GOM. I'll stop now before I rupture something.
And using your analogy above they will end up in a similar stupid position of measuring fuel consumption in miles per gallon when you buy the fuel in litres.
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@crucial said in Dumbing down of cricket:
And using your analogy above they will end up in a similar stupid position of measuring fuel consumption in miles per gallon when you buy the fuel in litres.
Has caused more than one aircraft accident / incident. I won't digress on that.
I am interested in why "out", is so much easier to understand than wicket. Just the single syllable I guess. He's "out", "out" where? Lunch? Having a snooze? Concussed?
Did chuckle at this:
"a dumbing down and “Americanisation”Has some implication that one is related to the other.
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@snowy said in Dumbing down of cricket:
@crucial said in Dumbing down of cricket:
And using your analogy above they will end up in a similar stupid position of measuring fuel consumption in miles per gallon when you buy the fuel in litres.
Has caused more than one aircraft accident / incident. I won't digress on that.
I am interested in why "out", is so much easier to understand than wicket. Just the single syllable I guess. He's "out", "out" where? Lunch? Having a snooze? Concussed?
Did chuckle at this:
"a dumbing down and “Americanisation”Has some implication that one is related to the other.
The other team took a “wicket” and he got “out”.
Both terms are equally used already !
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@mn5 said in Dumbing down of cricket:
@snowy said in Dumbing down of cricket:
@crucial said in Dumbing down of cricket:
And using your analogy above they will end up in a similar stupid position of measuring fuel consumption in miles per gallon when you buy the fuel in litres.
Has caused more than one aircraft accident / incident. I won't digress on that.
I am interested in why "out", is so much easier to understand than wicket. Just the single syllable I guess. He's "out", "out" where? Lunch? Having a snooze? Concussed?
Did chuckle at this:
"a dumbing down and “Americanisation”Has some implication that one is related to the other.
The other team took a “wicket” and he got “out”.
Both terms are equally used already !
Yeah. The player was run out, given out, adjudged out (although apparently LBW is too hard to understand)
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@mn5 Yes. Don't think you quite got the GOM gist there. They will be called "outs", which isn't actually a word, or wasn't, in cricket. They will still be recorded as wickets because the people who can count, and work with base 6, will be doing the scoring (fortunately) and are capable of dealing with two syllables.
I really need my morning coffee before engaging in this.
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