Arthur Crabtree wrote:The loss of cricket on fta in UK is commonly cited as a factor in people losing interest in the sport, of my generation anyway. And the management of the ECB was a massive factor in people in the UK growing disillusioned with cricket. I get most of my opinion from the Guardian, so maybe that doesn't represent the entirety of the breadth of opinion out there, but the governance of the game has seemed to be a big breaking point in people's support. Maybe the KP affair most of all out of any single incident, perhaps the sake of rights to Sky similarly.
andy wrote:Really wish the Zimbabwe series was on sky....also why have they stopped showing series, in the UAE and Bangladesh home series..?
Durhamfootman wrote:there's a lot of truth in that, SP. Sadly it is of very little consolation for people like me who don't really like, appreciate, or enjoy the faint edge that flies for six. If it wasn't so artificially managed... short boundaries, fielding restrictions and so on, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more than I do and that goes for ODI's too, btw. I confess to never having been interested in dancing girls, fireworks and music blasting out, so that doesn't help me out, either.
I almost never watch other peoples teams playing any sport, so maybe my apathy to T20 is just as simple as my team being utterly hopeless at it, and usually getting a right old kicking, often in an embarrassingly incompetent fashion, but I do find it rather galling when a product that I do enjoy is being watered down and marginalised in favour of something that I don't. At the same time, I'm not in a position to go to watch the format that I do enjoy, so I probably shouldn't complain, because I represent part of the problem that is affecting the type of cricket that I do enjoy and appreciate. Perhaps I'm just worried that when I do eventually have the time to resume my membership, and go down to the ground more often, that there won't be anything there that I'll want to watch.
bigfluffylemon wrote:Over on cricinfo, we have a new entry in 'world's most unfortunate name'. Take a look at the reporter on this story:
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/ ... brilliance
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