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6 hours ago, Khota said:

I will start out by admitting that I broke my cardinal rule and watched England Vs Pakistan for 20 mnts. More I watch IPL less I want to watch Tests. It was boring and a drag. 20 mnts of my lihe have been wasted that I can never recover. The test was like going to a funeral with so many people in their 60's and 70's. No young crowd and no energy in the match. It was depressing to see all the retired pensioners wearing tie and attending a funeral.

Now look at IPL. There is much energy in the crowd and the atmosphere is uplifting. You feel happy and enjoy it. There are more runs scored in one over than the seven overs I watched. 

Test format should be euthanized and let it die a graceful death. No more subsidizing this nonsense.

Khota, I believe the T20 format is not at fault here, it's because we play an unhealthy amount of cricket throughout the year, those sixes in IPL or any other T20 game lose their meaning, also the bats are way too high tech to distuingish between a good skilled six hitter and a fluke slogger.

 

If cricket becomes a seasonal sport in India, people will enjoy T20s/IPL more.

 

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In the last 15 odd months we have had that amazing home series against Aus and away series in SA...both edge of the seat stuff. No shorter format tournament can give me the same feeling as those 2 recent examples, even if 1 of them ended in heartbreak :((. Honestly guys when we were 90 runs behind Aus in Bengaluru before going to bat 2nd time, staring at 0-2 or when Aus raced to 140/1 in Dharamsala 1st session, were you not scared to death? Have you ever felt that level of despair, hopelessness, fear during any of the IPL matches? At least I never felt like that even during 2014 WT20 F or 2016 WT20 SF......IPL toh door ki baat hai !!!! 

 

2011 WC was a milestone achievement for Indian cricket but honestly there are at least 10 test series (even some which we drew/lost !!!) in the last 20 years which I cherish and remember more fondly.

 

I was initiated into the cricket stadium experience in 2001 Kolkata, that time I was in Behala for an under 95 pts (1'"=1 point, 1 kg=1 pt :p: ) CAB tournament and only some of us stayed back under my dad's charge to get the live match experience in Eden. Those 3 days I spent in the Mecca of Indian cricket were the greatest days of my life. Nothing I have experienced till date tops that experience and I am sure there can be no greater joy/emotional high in the future (family life, job, personal achievement). Hundreds of policemen were there abandoning their duties praying, crying, laughing, guffawing, swearing till the last wicket fell and when we overcame the mythical beast on a 16 match winning streak, the way the stadium (and the city) celebrated I have no words. I have also attended a KKR match in Eden and all I saw was an assemblage of plastic faces, feigning excitement like pornstars do in the videos...there was no connection and certainly no emotional involvement associated with the 4 hour long event. I am pretty sure none of them remembered about the happenings of that match a week later, at least I have difficulty in remembering who KKR's opponents were. But thinking about the test win still makes me emotional, brings back my childhood memories and the euphoric experience with fellow Indians going through the same set of turbulent emotions over multiple days. I still remember the faces of the people with whom I interacted and their wisecracks  and abuses directed at players, I had never been part of such a big adda that too for such a long time. IPL may attract many fans but I can assure you the ones who attend test matches have a spiritual connection with the game and their bond is very deep. ODI cricket of old too was exciting (attended the Platinum Jubilee match 3 years later in the same venue, good experience but not life changing...even the crowd wasn't very knowledgeable) to watch but not the emotional roller coaster that test cricket offers. Test cricket is like a Shakespearean play with many acts and scenes and there are innumerable ways how a test will proceed till its conclusion. 

 

Ofc some tests have been boring drags but even in Tolkien's LOTR there are phases which make you wanna doze off. Even the most high profile tennis tournaments or FIFA WCs have been boring but that doesn't mean you abandon them. T20s and T50s  provide a greater fraction of boring games where you can predict a winner before the half way mark, not to mention that bowlers are treated worse than slaves. But in a test match you can never predict till the end who will win, there are so many twists and turns. And the decent-good test matches (forget great) wipe the floor with what the best T20 (2007 WT20 SF ?),T50 (Wanderer's 438?) have to offer. 

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Would depend a lot on the context. For e.g. an Ind vs Aus test is more interesting than a Pak vs BD T20. An Ind vs SL game in any format is likely to be :yawn2: ....  For me, I usually follow the tournaments / series below:

 

  • Tests involving Ind and one of the top ranked nations, especially the away series for Ind in Aus and SA
  • IPL (not every game though) 
  • ICC events: ODIs and T20s (not every game though) 

 

If given the option to watch the best games or match ups in Tests, ODIs and T20s, I would pick test cricket 

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6 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Brother velu, even Salman's Race 3 will top the BO collection this year, won't settle any debate except point out the IQ of Indian movie goers. 

 

what will happen if race 3 runs for 5 days :phehe:

really dont think our die hard test match fans here watch all the live other than occsionally checking the scores or follow some  sessions if the game is tight

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9 hours ago, Khota said:

I will start out by admitting that I broke my cardinal rule and watched England Vs Pakistan for 20 mnts. More I watch IPL less I want to watch Tests. It was boring and a drag. 20 mnts of my lihe have been wasted that I can never recover. The test was like going to a funeral with so many people in their 60's and 70's. No young crowd and no energy in the match. It was depressing to see all the retired pensioners wearing tie and attending a funeral.

Now look at IPL. There is much energy in the crowd and the atmosphere is uplifting. You feel happy and enjoy it. There are more runs scored in one over than the seven overs I watched. 

Test format should be euthanized and let it die a graceful death. No more subsidizing this nonsense.

Fixed matches vs real cricket and that goes for all the mickey mouse T20 leagues.

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5 hours ago, MechEng said:

Khota, I believe the T20 format is not at fault here, it's because we play an unhealthy amount of cricket throughout the year, those sixes in IPL or any other T20 game lose their meaning, also the bats are way too high tech to distuingish between a good skilled six hitter and a fluke slogger.

 

If cricket becomes a seasonal sport in India, people will enjoy T20s/IPL more.

 

Still it requires certain skills to hit that 6.

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18 hours ago, cric_fan said:

You should hang your head in shame OP

 

But most likely a troll thread.

 

Dude ,shame really?Cricket is for entertainment, any version of cricket. You are talking as if people who watches t20s are doing crime, really ,may be they dont have leasure time like old retired people and the little time which they have they want to have slam bang entertainment. What so shameful about it.

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18 hours ago, kira said:

Test cricket isn't meant to be watched every ball, people can enjoy watching a couple of sessions or when there is some interesting context going on between a class batsman and a class bowler, this alone is greater than 40 overs of t20 trash and even 50 over bilateral borefests. Test cricket is the most enjoyable format of the game and I am not even a purist who hates other formats, I love all formats of cricket but I will gladly watch an exciting session of a test match over 100 exciting limited over games 

You pretty much answered the question on why test cricket will rightfully die. Like you said, its not ment to be watched ball by ball. No eyes on the format = no big money. Simple as that. Business world doesn't wait around for people's feelings, rather where the money is. Sooner or later, ICC themselves will chop off test cricket's legs. 

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1 hour ago, Zero_Unit said:

You pretty much answered the question on why test cricket will rightfully die. Like you said, its not ment to be watched ball by ball. No eyes on the format = no big money. Simple as that. Business world doesn't wait around for people's feelings, rather where the money is. Sooner or later, ICC themselves will chop off test cricket's legs. 

LOL abey tu bada expert hai business world ka :hysterical: When the format dies then come here and brag till then keep dreaming about death of test cricket, aya bada buisness world :hehe: 

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3 minutes ago, velu said:

 

test cricket is already in life support :hehe:

Dhoni chamchas want test cricket dead because dhoni sucked in that format and as long as test cricket exists MS "the one format bully" Dhoni won't be considered great, too bad dhoni sucked even more in the t20 format (which is the future of cricket) so dhoni won't be considered a great no matter what :hysterical:

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15 minutes ago, kira said:

Dhoni chamchas want test cricket dead because dhoni sucked in that format and as long as test cricket exists MS "the one format bully" Dhoni won't be considered great, too bad dhoni sucked even more in the t20 format (which is the future of cricket) so dhoni won't be considered a great no matter what :hysterical:

 

as if sachin won tests for us like what sachin chamchas think :hysterical:

sehwag won double the man of the series awards in tests than sachin but played half the games as bhagwan :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

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