tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153405347803393373.post7791941534174601714..comments2024-01-08T20:13:01.837+00:00Comments on Channel Flip: Cricket Is RidiculousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153405347803393373.post-39038035511494729162014-06-14T14:17:16.694+01:002014-06-14T14:17:16.694+01:00it is informative post for sport's.This post p...it is informative post for sport's.This post publish new important cricket news.This post article is important and helpful .Thanks a lot for share your great post.watch football onlinehttp://www.clickgoals.com/watch-football-online/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5153405347803393373.post-81549708381806799032007-06-22T10:29:00.000+01:002007-06-22T10:29:00.000+01:00Well, you already know my opinion on the subject :...Well, you already know my opinion on the subject :p.<BR/><BR/><I>"You could probably fit a decent film into the parts of the coverage where the cameras are showing people in the crowd, or interesting butterflies."</I><BR/><BR/>TBH, I look at 90% of TV and think "they could be showing cricket while this rubbish is on".<BR/><BR/>I'll admit though that there is a certain guilty pleasure in watching cricket on Ceefax. It's also a sport that translates remarkably well to radio and internet tickertape.<BR/><BR/><I>"Given those odds, even with Hawkeye and video replays and microphones in the stumps, and three umpires, mistakes are still made with alarming frequency."</I><BR/><BR/>Hawkeye is an unofficial tool used by the commentators, and is not yet accurate enough to be used by the third umpire.<BR/><BR/>And is football or any other sport really any different, given some of the offside decisions given or not given?<BR/><BR/>"Cricket remains the only game in history (to the best of my knowledge, anyway) where you can avoid losing using a well-timed rainstorm. If play is rained off it isn’t postponed; it just doesn’t happen."<BR/><BR/>Rain is frustrating, yes, but at least there are fewer draws than there used to be: batsmen score their runs more quickly these days and this tends to make up for the weather.<BR/><BR/><I>"And as I mentioned, it takes five days to play a game. And they play it in five game series. And sometimes it’s a draw! (Or a tie, which apparently is not the same thing in cricket.) They play the game for the best part of a month, and don’t even have a winner.</I><BR/><BR/>And what exactly is boring about a series draw, anyway? Some of the most exciting Test series have been draws. Some of the most exciting Test <I>matches</I> have been draws. If you watched a football game and it ended 3-3, you wouldn't call it boring, would you?<BR/><BR/>Cricket is, admittedly, a slow game. I don't mind that, though. It gives strategy and tactics time to unfold, and has lots of lovely numbers to think about in between bits of action.<BR/><BR/>Finally:<BR/><BR/><I>"And if they’re not finished by teatime, they call it a draw and go inside."</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, come on. Everyone knows that the tea interval is only two-thirds of the way through the day's play.Paul Varleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971487249446716022noreply@blogger.com