Holding refuses to acknowledge T20 as cricket

Seems this forum refuses to acknowledge T20 as well.

As Trev pointed out when he started the 1st ODI WI v SAf thread, neither of the T20s rated a thread from us.

Even Wiffy and kkf couldn't be @rsed.

Even Wiffy and kkf couldn't be @rsed.

In our defence Windies are playing carp even by our standards recently. It's not worth 2/3 hours of our time to watch that s**t. I am waiting for the tests to begin and the A team tour of England which is a hell of a lot more important for our development anyway.

I am not completely against T20 cricket, it just feels like with the IPL, T20 WC and the series against SA we have had far too much of it.

Good man, WIffy.

I actually think that T20 is the pinnacle of cricket.

Who are world champions again?

Hehehe. What, no photo, vilks??

skully wrote:Hehehe. What, no photo, vilks??

I'm trying to mix up my game a bit.

Yeah, sure you are!!

WIFAN wrote:

Even Wiffy and kkf couldn't be @rsed.

In our defence Windies are playing carp even by our standards recently. It's not worth 2/3 hours of our time to watch that s**t. I am waiting for the tests to begin and the A team tour of England which is a hell of a lot more important for our development anyway.

I am not completely against T20 cricket, it just feels like with the IPL, T20 WC and the series against SA we have had far too much of it.

Yeah I agree. I like all kinds of cricket. But for this series we could have skipped the 20/20's considering we just had a 20/20 world cup. I have a lot of stuff going on so couldn't have watched the games this week but I did peak at the scores. But I completely disagree with Holding re Pollard. He is freaking 22 and has not played a test yet. Give him a chance before you say he is not a cricketer. Excellent fielder, decent bowler, hard hitting batsman(not a total slogger though usually tries to hit straight) reasonable FC record not just in 20/20's. He might surprise people in tests when he is not under pressure to try and up the run rate every time.

skully wrote:Damn straight, Hass. Except he lost a little of his gloss when he allowed the committee he was part of introduce the "15 degrees equals straight" rule

Well, you can always stick your fingers in your ears and shout loudly, in which case 20/20 is sure to go away

On the other hand, acknowledge it for what it is, i.e. 'cricket-lite' and welcome it in the current international/domestic structure and harness it's popularity to the benefit ofother forms of the game.

[sticks fingers in ears, yells lalalalalalalala, and stamps widdle feet]

No, that didn't seem to work Bas. It's still here. The Snoozers and Lankans are playing another of the infernal things as we speak.

Basil wrote:

skully wrote:Damn straight, Hass. Except he lost a little of his gloss when he allowed the committee he was part of introduce the "15 degrees equals straight" rule

Well, you can always stick your fingers in your ears and shout loudly, in which case 20/20 is sure to go away

On the other hand, acknowledge it for what it is, i.e. 'cricket-lite' and welcome it in the current international/domestic structure and harness it's popularity to the benefit ofother forms of the game.

Or I can choose to take a glance at it when it's the only show in town, and acknowledge that it will be there, but not get too excited by it.

Which is prolly what most of us do, I guess. In the end, it'll do if there's nuffin' else on.

T20? I'd rather strip wallpaper.

lardbucket wrote:T20? I'd rather strip wallpaper.

Funny you should mention that.

Do you have anything on for next weekend?

taipan wrote:

lardbucket wrote:T20? I'd rather strip wallpaper.

Funny you should mention that.

Not really. That's mostly what I've beeen doing for the last few weeks with no real cricket on. Still loads to do, unfortunately, and now I'm not comforted by the fact that I'm avoiding the T20.

Watch it, lardy, Nigel's probably planning to glue himself to the bedroom wall and get you to strip him . . .

Ah the usual homophobic jibes.

He's still filthy that Trev knocked him back.

tac wrote:Watch it, lardy, Nigel's probably planning to glue himself to the bedroom wall and get you to strip him . . .

Even that sounds better than T20. At least it'd be memorable afterwards, even if for all the wrong reasons.

lardbucket wrote:T20? I'd rather strip wallpaper.

Just paint over it with a textured roller.

Now you tell me.

Hehehe. I suspect Mrs Bucket would've told you to "get farked".

pretty safe bet


7 years down the line, does anybody think any better of T20 than we did back in 2010?

It's obviously here to stay, but I still can't be arsed watching it. The crowd seems to get into it in the same way basketball crowds get into that.

I could give you a list of positives about T20 if you like

Of course every silver lining has a cloud

lardbucket wrote:pretty safe bet


7 years down the line, does anybody think any better of T20 than we did back in 2010?

It's obviously here to stay, but I still can't be arsed watching it. The crowd seems to get into it in the same way basketball crowds get into that.

I don't mind having the BBL on in the background at nights over summer. And Chris Lynn is pretty fun to watch.

But farked if I could tell you who won the damn thing last year or who plays for who.