Cricket

[Raider4]

Murdoch poisons all his grubby little claws touch

I have nothing but hatred & contempt for Murdoch and his companies, but it's cricket that has chosen to be on Sky. Same for rugby league, english rugby union, golf and countless others.

The sports make the choice of more money, or more viewers, and can hardly complain when participation is down because veiwing figures are a tiny percent ofvwhat they used to be.

I miss test cricket and F1, but I'll never subscribe to Sky to watch them.

Apparently the RFU want the Six Nations on Sky. Thank whoever the rest won't agree.

Cheers, Martyn

[Fenton]

I admit I do watch illegal streams of sport. The only one I was legally is the rugby on BT sport as I have BT broadband

[Luddite]

Kabaddi and sumo should definitely be back on our TV.  Both are enthralling!  C4 dropping them, along with NFL, NBA, and all the other sports they used to show was a real shame.

Look at all the sports we could be watching!!!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports

Even Quidditch!

Yet we get, what?  Maybe 5 different ones?

Kissball (yawn)
Rugby
The occasional bit of tennis, golf, or cricket.
Athletics when there's a tournament on.

Pfft....

[Ithoriel]

Would be delighted to see all sports of every sort sold off to SKY if I thought we'd get something worth watching in it's place.

Replacing one set of unwatchable with another ... meh!

[getagrip]

Love Kabbadi; it's wonderfully inasne

[Roy]

Sports that should feature on the new sports channel

camel racing [both bactrian and dromedary]



bog snorkling


welly wanging


women's beach volleyball


and the gurning championship


if costs an issue, then the beach volleyball could be omitted.

[getagrip]

In this order:

No,
No,
Why not, it's funny,
Go on then; let's Northerners have a go;
YES
Yeah okay after pub kicking out time.

[Nosher]

English one day cricket is dying a death indeed.

However grass roots cricket is as strong now as its ever been. Every Sunday throughout the summer we have 200+ kids bopys and girls from the age of 5-16 playoing the game and our league fixtures for the juniors boasts 150+ games a season.

Cricket is the fastest growing female sport in the country.

Like most sports its not for everyone, but give me cricket over kissball anyday.

[getagrip]

English one day cricket is dying a death indeed.

However grass roots cricket is as strong now as its ever been. Every Sunday throughout the summer we have 200+ kids bopys and girls from the age of 5-16 playoing the game and our league fixtures for the juniors boasts 150+ games a season.

Cricket is the fastest growing female sport in the country.

Like most sports its not for everyone, but give me cricket over kissball anyday.

Agree with all of that; love watching women's cricket; Sarah Taylor is a rare talent.

[Fenton]

My idea for improving the International game is this:

Get rid of 20/20 and 50 over one day games. These to be replaced with a 30/30 format

All international series to be 5 test matches and 5 one day games

Series to be decided like the Womens  game

Six points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in any of the One Day International.The winner is the country with the most points at the end

Each country for the duration of the series is only allowed a squad of 17 players to cover both formats

[getagrip]

My idea for improving the International game is this:

Get rid of 20/20 and 50 over one day games. These to be replaced with a 30/30 format

All international series to be 5 test matches and 5 one day games

Series to be decided like the Womens  game

Six points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in any of the One Day International.The winner is the country with the most points at the end

Each country for the duration of the series is only allowed a squad of 17 players to cover both formats

Not a bad idea at all.

Why 30/30 though?

[Fenton]

Sort of between the two types of one day games. I can fudge things just as well as the ICC 

My was thought its a little longer than 20/20 and not an all day thing like 50 over gane

One of the problems we have with cricket over here and younger players  is that they dont want to be away all day if were playing 45 or 50 overs per side

If we had the weather  then game could be like Australia or West Indies  where one game is played over 2 weekends .

[getagrip]

Sort of between the two types of one day games. I can fudge things just as well as the ICC 

My was thought its a little longer than 20/20 and not an all day thing like 50 over gane

One of the problems we have with cricket over here and younger players  is that they dont want to be away all day if were playing 45 or 50 overs per side

If we had the weather  then game could be like Australia or West Indies  where one game is played over 2 weekends .

Fair comment.

My issue with shorter versions of the game, 20/20 especially, it doesn't reward the bowler.  Too "easy" to smash everything out the park; especially on dead wickets.

Agree about the weather for sure.