Same, I had it on but wasn't really paying any attention. I just don't find it enjoyable at all. Gimme One Day and Test cricket every day of the week.

Really? T20 is so entertaining.

And what the hell is the whole issue over Warner's six??? I don't see whats wrong with that as a shot.

T20 isn't that entertaining really, i'd much rather less T20 cricket and more Test cricket.

As for Warner's shot, it's considered unfair to the bowler who's running in expecting to bowl to a left hander who suddenly then changes to right handed. It'd be like a right arm bowler running in and then suddenly bowling with his left.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 2/2/2012 06:53:54 PM

Ye but if a batsman attempts to flick over and doesn't have the skill or mis times it, the chances are he will either be out leg before or mishit it to a fielder or even get bowled. So in that respect is isnt unfair as there is a lot of risk in it for the batsman. And don't forget some batsman might not the able to actually hit the ball batting other handed.

And a bowler might bowl a wide, or a no ball. It's still no different. Fact is it's a lot easier to pick a bowler changing hand (Has to go through his action), or switching sides of the wicket to bowl. A batsman can pre-meditate in his head the shot, and then switch after the balls been bowled, meaning the bowlers has essentially been 'cheated'.

Honestly I'd be all for banning the switch hit in both ODI's and tests and leaving it in T20's where it's all about excitement.

a bowler changing hand (Has to go through his action), or switching sides of the wicket to bowl.

I don't think there is a need to ban it. You'd have to be stupid (or Kevin Pieterson) to try a switch hit in a test match

Ah yes, Eoin Morgan. Another player who I wouldn't be surprised to see try a switch in a Test Match.

Ah yes, Eoin Morgan. Another player who I wouldn't be surprised to see try a switch in a Test Match.

He's gonna want to try something soon, coz batting normally is doing shit all for him in test cricket.

He's gonna want to try something soon, coz batting normally is doing shit all for him in test cricket.

Or maybe he should go back to playing for his home country, at least then he could top score with a solid 20 or 30.

Well at the moment it seems the exact opposite is his downfall atm. He hasn't played a sweep shot this series since the one he played of Ajmal three balls in to his first innings of the series :lol: That's very harsh to say he's playing shit, he made a lot of big scores over the English summer just with a lot of very small ones in between. He just needs to be more consistent to cement the no. 6 spot. I think it's wrong everyone's calling for his head and saying he should be dropped for the third test, it's not like the alternative in Ravi Bopara has great test record himself.

By 'big scores' I more sort of meant 60, 70, 80 rather than hundreds. I would love Morgs to stay in the side, but I wouldn't mind something like that ^, except Bresnan would be at no. 7 ahead of Broad and Swann. Although come to think of it, our last attempt at playing something like that didn't end well. Players like James Taylor and Ben Stokes are very appealing alternatives to Morgan for me also but Eoin still deserves a chance.

Edited by gooner4life_8: 2/2/2012 08:54:33 PM

And the question remains - If a batsmen switches as the bowler is in his delivery stride, how do you judge a Wide? Especially when in T20 anything down leg side is a wide.

Its BS, T20 is already skewed towards the batsmen, no need to take it even further.

Crowd numbers down for one-day internationals as Nine switches India versus Sri Lanka game to digital

by: Malcolm Conn From: News Limited newspapers February 07, 2012 11:30PM

CHANNEL Nine has the $6 million dollar match almost no Australians want to watch.

As stadiums around the country struggle to sell-out their one-day matches, the cricket network has dumped Wednesday night's game between Sri Lanka and India in Perth onto its digital channel Gem for the first time.

While India-Sri Lanka clashes are worth a fortune beamed back to India in television rights for Cricket Australia, Nine did not want to interrupt its regular programming to show tonight's match.

Despite sidelining the game, Nine’s executive producer of cricket Brad McNamara claims there is still enormous interest when Australia plays, citing last Sunday night’s rain-marred match in Melbourne.

He pointed to total peak ratings of 2.5 million.

“It’s amongst the best ratings of the summer along with last week’s Twenty20 internationals, Boxing Day and Michael Clarke’s triple century during the Sydney Test,” McNamara told News Limited newspapers.

He said the moving of tonight’s match to Gem was an experiment which may be repeated for the remainder of the one-day series with Sri Lanka-India matches.

“We just have to see how it goes,” McNamara said.

CA would prefer the match on Nine to be accessible to more people, although McNamara claimed digital now has a penetration of more than 90 percent.

“We understand the so-called neutral games have nowhere near the audience of Australian matches,” CA spokesman Peter Young said.

Australia’s one-day side may still be big on television but there are worrying signs around the country in the wake of the Big Bash explosion.

Friday night’s one-dayer in Perth between Australia and Sri Lanka is struggling to sell out despite the WACA Ground holding just 18,000, which includes 11,000 public seats.

While Adelaide is hopeful of a full house against India on Sunday, Friday week’s game against Sri Lanka in Sydney is selling poorly.

“It’s disappointing,” NSW chief executive Dave Gilbert said yesterday.

“We’ve only sold 7300 tickets, which is just half way to budget and the game is just 10 days away.”

This contrasts with the following Friday night’s one-dayer against India, on March 24, which is doing better than expected, with more than 20,000 of the 28,000 tickets already gone.

Gilbert claimed it had been selling strongly for some time, suggesting good support from Sydney’s strong Indian community.

But he said there had hardly been a full house for one-day cricket in Sydney for more than a decade.

“Other than England we rarely sell out these days,” Gilbert said.

Likewise Brisbane’s Gabba, which last sold out for a 50-over international when India toured previously four years ago, is aiming for 30,000, which would be almost 10,000 short of capacity.

But the real barometer of the one-day tournament threatens to be the last regular match in Melbourne before the best of three finals series, with just 20,000 expected for Australia-Sri Lanka on March 2.

This would be even lower than the 22,524 who watched the corresponding game in the last tri series four years ago.

The only worse crowd at the MCG for an Australian one-dayer in almost three decades was a little over 15,000 who watched Zimbabwe in 2004.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/cricket/crowd-numbers-down-for-one-day-internationals-as-nine-switches-india-versus-sri-lanka-game-to-digital/story-fn67x4c9-1226265095095