Cricket Discussion - Take Virat

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sXe_Maverick said:

It's because India and Indians have nothing better to celebrate other than meaningless crash and bash tournaments.

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No, because we can celebrate for a meangingful, entertaining T20 win than losing out to a boring, meaningless test match whose results are forgotten the month after it is done

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meaningful 20/20, the mother of all oxymorons.

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That's how the atmosphere is for a good T20 match in any nook or corner of India.

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Mr. Snrub said:

meaningful 20/20, the mother of all oxymorons.

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A T20 tournament win is more meaningful than a bilateral win that nobody cares after a month.

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Thats the problems when you have a billion people with 500 mil living in poverty on the streets. You get crowds when someone falls off a bike :troll No one outside of India gives a shit.

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DarthSimian said:

A T20 tournament win is more meaningful than a bilateral win that nobody cares after a month.

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yeah a t/20 tournaments that no one cares about before it even starts is much more important.

yes respond to this with pictures of india as you wish

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just shows that indians are a bunch of frontrunners who leave when their team is garbage and jump on a team that doesn't completely suck. congratulations.

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Mr. Snrub said:

just shows that indians are a bunch of frontrunners who leave when their team is garbage and jump on a team that doesn't completely suck. congratulations.

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No, it just shows that Indians don't like boring tests but love entertaining T20s. T20s and ODis with the same India team were running full when tests were played on empty stands.

It is not rocket science to come up with that :lmao

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cant hear you over the deafening sound of bandwagon

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DarthSimian said:

No, because we can celebrate for a meangingful, entertaining T20 win than losing out to a boring, meaningless test match whose results are forgotten the month after it is done

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I'm sorry that your pitiful nation cannot win away from home, thus rendering the pinnacle of the sport 'boring and meaningless.' Take what you will from your crash and bash victories, nobody remembers them the morning after. Poor excuse for a fan.

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sXe_Maverick said:

I'm sorry that your pitiful nation cannot win away from home, thus rendering the pinnacle of the sport 'boring and meaningless.' Take what you will from your crash and bash victories, nobody remembers them the morning after. Poor excuse for a fan.

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When a form of the sport is so boring that it puts you to sleep, you don't watch it. Simple. That is why tests are so unpopular in India and nobody cares about bilateral results after some time. Or maybe only those people go to a test match who want to waste themselves getting drunk and doing nothing else in life :lmao

It is so wonderful that ODIs and T20s came along or cricket would have been a sport of the minority.

(P.S That is besides the point that there is no country other than SA now who can convincingly win matches away from home)

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i've been put to sleep by t/20, does that count?

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This is worse than Penaldo vs Messi.

Tests are for real fans of the sport. ODIs and mostly T20s are for the casuals.

You're not going to learn a lot about a team or players from T20s. It's why Test cricket is called Test. It tests the abilities of players and teams.

I don't get why you fail to understand this Darth. It must be solely due to India being mediocre in the true cricket format.

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Joel said:

Tests are for real fans of the sport. ODIs and mostly T20s are for the casuals.

You're not going to learn a lot about a team or players from T20s. It's why Test cricket is called Test. It tests the abilities of players and teams.
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Not at all. There are many hardcore cricket fans who love T20 more than tests.The reason why they don't prefer tests is because it is boring to watch 5 whole days of cricket and is not as exciting/entertaining as T20s. You won't have such a huge fan following and celebration of wins if it were just casual fans.

I don't know why it is difficult to understand why some people prefer T20s over tests. T20 require a different skillset. That's all. Not that one form's skillset is better than the other. Otherwise even the Strausses or Trotts of the world would have shined in T20 cricket.

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20/20 = hit and giggle. It reminds me of the tip and run games I used to play as a kid.

It's the form of the game that the older cricketers play because they are in the twilight of their career because it doesn't require as much match fitness or players like Shaun Tait who don't have enough heart to make it in tests.

20/20 was just to make cricket mainstream, bring in the green and for the kids who have little to no attention span. For everyone else, there's test cricket.

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no hardcore cricket fans love T20 more than tests. The sheer fact that they don;t love tests means they're not hardcore cricket fans.

Trott has a T20 average of 37.17 at a strike rate of 114.90. How is that not shining at T20? Higher average than KP, Afridi, Dhoni etc etc

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:lmao We're having Australia VS India RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW IN THIS THREAD

btw im american when where and how watch cricket? i got nothin better to do for 5 days

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T20 is the best way to expand the game to other countries like China and U.S.A that don't play cricket.

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Rush said:

no hardcore cricket fans love T20 more than tests. The sheer fact that they don;t love tests means they're not hardcore cricket fans.

Trott has a T20 average of 37.17 at a strike rate of 114.90. How is that not shining at T20? Higher average than KP, Afridi, Dhoni etc etc

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there's like a handful of players who are considered t/20 stars anyway that actually matter (ie are actually good enough to play any other format not crap at actual cricket and good at baseball-lite). guys like trott and katich don't get mentioned enough because they're test stars first and foremost