by Durhamfootman » Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:17 pm
well, apart from the bonus points you talk about, captains can agree to do that anyway and I'm not a fan. It's a game of two innings each in which rain is a relevant feature and draws an inevitable consequence of it. I like it as it is, tbh. Can you overcome the opposition and the conditions and find a way to win using your skills as a player and as a team. Over the course of a season the most effective teams will generally finish somewhere near the top and the least effective somewhere near the bottom, without the need for any contrived results. Maybe if it rains for 4 days and captains can't agree to throw pies at each other for a couple of hours and see who scores the most runs, maybe they could agree to play 5 a side football for 30 mins and whoever scores the most goals can have the 16 points.
I'm being ridiculous, of course, but that's how strongly I'm opposed to 'gentlemen's agreements' in matches that also affect other teams who don't get a say in the 'agreement'. I just don't like it. Rain is a part of cricket, full stop and despite all the calls for having reserve days to complete matches (usually test cricket) where rain has curtailed it, trying to hang on long enough for the rain to save you in a match in which you've been thoroughly outplayed is a completely legitimate part of cricket... it's just another skill that good cricketers need in their armoury.
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