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Ha!

Punjabi Legends have just started their 2nd over and already the RR is over 20

Ed Smith will be tugging himself over the test standard players that a T10 might throw up

How much would you have to dislike cricket to want to watch a T10 format.

I have no problem with the premise of T10, its a step too far for me, but its a natural progression for the T20 lovers. Cut out all the BS, wickets hardly matter, just how many runs you can mow in 45 mins, then its all over. None of the filler, just power hitting all the way.

Having reviewed a better quality video of the Shehzad innings though, its a bit of a farce. He hits 5 or 6 maximums in about 10 balls, and none of them are out the middle of the bat. His first four he had one hand on the bat, his second he edged it, and then he bottom batted 5 or 6 wild slogs that carried into the stand. Every single shot he is playing on one leg, or off balance falling away.

Thats my problem with this sort of cricket. The ball doesnt swing, the pitches are roads, the bats used are all middle and so huge that any hack that thins the ball ends in the stand, or I say stand, but its really 40 yards away from the middle where they decide to cut the pitch short to increase scoring. Its not really a contest of bat and ball, just how lucky you are with where your non middled slog ends up.

It all feels a bit like if FIFA were to make the size of the goal 15 times bigger, then laud about how entertaining games that end 56-43 are..... If a six is scored 4 times an over, and thats normal, its no longer special or entertaining.

I want to see good play rewarded, but seeing Shehzad falling over decent yorkers and somehow managing to bottom edge them into the parking lot is.... well, not for me, lets say.

sussexpob wrote:
It all feels a bit like if FIFA were to make the size of the goal 15 times bigger, then laud about how entertaining games that end 56-43 are..... If a six is scored 4 times an over, and thats normal, its no longer special or entertaining.

that's pretty much how I feel about it

Is this a first ? Danny Morisson was commentating in test between PAK and NZ today in Dubai. He finishes that and is now commentating in T10 league match between Pakhtoons and Sindhi's being played in Sharjah. Yes, the distance is just about 30 kms between two places but probably the first time a commie has done two cricket matches in a day.

in fairness t10 isnt a cricket match...

andy wrote:in fairness t10 isnt a cricket match...

Doing commentary in one more T10 match between Punjabi Legends and Bengal Tigers at Sharjah.

3 matches in a day

yeah its still not cricket...

ah..... but is there money in it?

that's all that matters to the guardians of the game

Simon Harmer has signed an extension with us until the end of the 2021 season

andy wrote:Simon Harmer has signed an extension with us until the end of the 2021 season

I saw that

excellent signing

Indian women cricketers continue to play in Big Bash. Wouldn't have been got go ahead from BCCI if there was women's IPL.

you won't get one of those until India win the women's WC

unless Kapil Dev tries to organise one, of course

JB1 hits 84 off 24 balls in the T10

Ed Smith will have him down as a future England test opener