Dumbing down of cricket
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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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@crucial said in Dumbing down of cricket:
@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)
My boy ( 11 this weekend ) will have to come to terms with LBW next season ( they don’t have them until a certain age ) so why can’t the rest of the world grasp it ?
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@MN5 I have some faith that your boy probably already gets it, even if it wasn't used in his previous matches. There's really only 3 things to consider (4 if you include not playing a shot). An edge doesn't count.
Why haven't they gone the whole hog and made 4s and 6s, 5s and 10s? Maths is clearly an issue for most casual cricket watchers.
Will ties be decided by number of boundaries scored too?
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