[cite]Posted By: Exiled_Addick[/cite]The key to enjoying cricket is not to treat it like other sports. Other sports are designed to hold you attention fully for a couple of hours or so. Cricket, well test Cricket, is best enjoyed if you dip in and out of it or listen to TMS whilst doing something else. If you attempt to sit in front of your TV and watch every ball of a 5 day match then your attention is bound to wander.
The key is to be suffieciently aware of what's going on that you can get yourself in front of a TV or next to a Radio in time to be involved in an hours entertainment like we got this afternoon.
Agree with you are saying for just normal cricket fans, but mark my words the test cricket purist would love nothing more than to sit in his pants for the whole test watching every ball and drinks break!! I know this cos i am him, the 29 year old purist who on a saturday test day would sit in my pants only, watching it all day long!! Thats my goal in life, to watch more test cricket in my Jack Palance!! Beer, peace, some nuts lol and a whole lotta blocking and amazing passages of fast bowling!!
I can tell you when it was absolute perfection for me, it was when we played the saffers last year at home, Flintoff bowling an incredible torrent of 92 mph chin music to Jack Kallis, 2 all rounders at the top, top of their games, with fred really frightening him, and making him play at an absolute rip snorter after really buttering him up!! That, for me, is sporting briliance.
You give me, and today as to quote Boycott on TMS, that all day long, proper spells of proper brutal but skillfull fast bowling. can't wait to see Steyn in action on the sky highlights tonight to see how it held up against the likes of Freddie v Kallis, or one Atherton v Donald match up, or even when Macgrath had figures of something 4 wickets for 2 runs in the 05 Ashes test at Lords!! Stunning.
Going to knock one out now lol
Absolutely, 100% spot on. Test cricket transcends sport. I'd watch every ball of even a boring test - it's pure theatre. Some of the tests that England have been involved in over the last five years have been ridiculously good - I fancy we'll never see a patch of test cricket like it again.
I reckon the Saffers will pinch this last test unfortunately. Would love to be proved wrong, but I just see their bowlers as more than capable of taking 20 wickets, whereas England's attack seems to drift through long periods of the game without much menace at all.
I'm quite late to cricket, but am happy to say I am fully appreciating the finer points of the game having seen a full season of county cricket live for the first time last summer.
I too will try not to miss a ball of this final test of what has been a fascinating series - the only difference is I don't have Sky, so it will be ball by ball on 5 Live Sports Extra!
i must admit even though i play (a low level of) cricket, i thought the no-ball rule was when the ball left the hand, not where the front foot initially lands.
in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.
[cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]i must admit even though i play (a low level of) cricket, i thought the no-ball rule was when the ball left the hand, not where the front foot initially lands.
in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.
[cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]
in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.
give him his due, he has been performing well of late. although unsure and our second best scorer this innings with 35, although doesnt say much really does it :-(
10 more runs then we hit the heights of 150, although give me that at 40-4 i would of taken it!
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This exact article was on the guardians website earlier?
I reckon the Saffers will pinch this last test unfortunately. Would love to be proved wrong, but I just see their bowlers as more than capable of taking 20 wickets, whereas England's attack seems to drift through long periods of the game without much menace at all.
I too will try not to miss a ball of this final test of what has been a fascinating series - the only difference is I don't have Sky, so it will be ball by ball on 5 Live Sports Extra!
Sidebottom in for Onions for England.
Strauss C.Amla .Steyn 0.
Golden Duck (First Ball).
0-1.
Trott LBW B.Morkel 5.
Just got the run by run update up at work :-)
in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.
That really made me chuckle!
Healies?
Trying to hook a Steyn bouncer.
136/7.
148/8
give him his due, he has been performing well of late. although unsure and our second best scorer this innings with 35, although doesnt say much really does it :-(
10 more runs then we hit the heights of 150, although give me that at 40-4 i would of taken it!