all time boring tours

surely the tour of Australia by Sri lanka and Sookia must rank as the most boring tours of modern times...

yes there has been a few good knocks from tendy, vvs, sanga, punter, unit, gilly and roy and some decent bowling from vaas, instant kharma, violets, lee, midge but there has been few memorable days or contests...

the tri series jamodis has been as stultifying as vikras..

yes the poms were hopeless last year but they were funny in a pratfall kind of way (and of course they won the tri series)...nothing has been remotely humorous this summer or edifying this season.

have to agree with zimmi - time to go to the pub until the footy starts

04-05 (NZ and Pak) was the least memorable season I can (barely) recall. Any season in which the high point was a no 11 batsman getting a 50 can't be riveting.

No stunt pulled by the aussies has worked in this tour .. it should be the most boring tour indeed.


humor us .. we might let you get away with a few stunts.

But we need quality humor. None of that lame stuff that passes for humor down under.

87-88 was another dreadful season: three nondescript Tests between incandescently mediocre Oz and NZ teams, followed by Sidneyland's pathetically inadequate attempt to match the Melb Centenary Test, followed by a Test v SL which Australia won without opening their eyes.

Fred Nerk wrote:04-05 (NZ and Pak) was the least memorable season I can (barely) recall. Any season in which the high point was a no 11 batsman getting a 50 can't be riveting.

Turn it up - Dizzy's "giddiup" down the pitch alone made it a great summer.

The Saffie tours tend to be pretty boring . . . except for the laughs along the way.

This tour has been boring?

HH_pink wrote:This tour has been boring?

I bet it was. It didn't have Brahmins invading Rome so...

horace wrote:..have to agree with zimmi - time to go to the pub until the footy starts

So can we hope that neither of you will be posting for a while?

You can only hope against hope ... the shameless Zimbot's already back. But well, we have to be fair ... if the forum is the only life one has ...

Horrie seems to have a very weird sense of entertainment if he find this tour as boring.

I'd say this tour has to be one of the most entertaining tours of all time, both for on field action as well as for its off field action.

tosh SG...i acknowledged some of the good displays by members of the the 3 teams...that said there has been an absence of close cricket...i also none of the 3 teams have played up to their billing or abilities...sure there have been sideshows aplenty but generally the cricket has been predictable and boring

... and again ...

Whilst it was't quite the VVS series in 2001 this time around the test series between India and Australia was close, the score line could have been easily reversed. Expect the one day finals to be close as well.

SG wrote:Horrie seems to have a very weird sense of entertainment if he find this tour as boring.

I'd say this tour has to be one of the most entertaining tours of all time, both for on field action as well as for its off field action.

not much of it cricket related ...ie with bat and ball ...not the gob or the retired Snoozy judge or the smartarse cricket journalist (or the chartered plane)

I found England's tour of the WI boring. Dunno if it's cos the SA/Aus matches were going on at the same time, but I'm not particularly looking forward to the return matches. Are you?

Demelza wrote:I found England's tour of the WI boring. Dunno if it's cos the SA/Aus matches were going on at the same time, but I'm not particularly looking forward to the return matches. Are you?

I'll second you on that with the exception of the first test. The wickets they were played on couldn't have been blunter. My little brother would have managed a ton.

England's 1958-59 tour of Aus is legendary for its boredom (even though Aus won 4-0). It was alleged that this tour was almost the death of Test Cricket such was dreariness. The 1960-61 tour of Aus by the Windies was apparently the saviour.

Dem Baby?????

Are you trying to put lardy out of work or what?
Whats with all this bumping up?


Some of the borefests [tests] from memory:
NZ in India 94 [2 tests rained off]
NZ in Aus 99-00
Zim in Pak 98 [2 tests rained off]
India in SL 97
SL in India 97
NZ in India 99
Eng in India 02
NZ in India 04
India in Pak 06
Pak in India 08
Eng in WI 09
Any Bangars vs Zimboks anywhere...

Status Quo. For forty years.

PeterCS wrote:Status Quo. For forty years.

'Boring song'. 'Another end ...'

rofl...has the pinnacle of lardating been reached???

Ironically we are again in the midst of a snorefest set of series against the Lankans...now tho the only excitement is in whether the Oz team avpid the abject humiliation they deserve in the tests

England's last tour of Aus was pretty boring. 3 innings defeats and a 517/1 in the draw. Must try harder next time, Ricky & Co.

c'mon gaz ...I bet you were as excited as we were in the trainwreck of the pomgolian 0-5 effort in the Oz series before