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Your favorite and least favorite format?


Gollum

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  1. 1. Favorite format

  2. 2. Least favorite

  3. 3. Was it always like this?



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Don't think we ever had a discussion about this, will shed light on the general preferences of ICFers. I think most of us care more for cricket than the general population, some of us are cricket nerds, follow the sport more keenly etc. Only 3 questions allowed in the poll, so I will ask the 4th here: are you in favor of another format in the future, like T10 or 4 day cricket? 

 

To answer these questions

 

1. My fav format is test cricket, real test or character and endurance. What I like most about this format is the number of match scenarios possible, 4 innings so more number of ways a match can unfold. In T20s/ODIs match can be decided in the 1st 20% period, but in tests you can never make conclusions, a team may be dominant for 90% period but the other team may sneak out a draw showing heroism in final hour of day 5. Draw is something we don't get in the other 2 formats, beauty of test cricket is the concept of draw where neither side can force a victory after battling for 40 hours !!!! Some of the best tests have been hard fought draws, where both sides played so well that a result wasn't possible. Saving the match in 4th innings via gritty knocks or defending low totals on wearing day 5 pitches with multiple close-in catchers...excellent drama. 

 

2. Least favorite is T20. Find it too fluky and defensive in nature...no need to try and take 10 wickets. At least in ODIs, on sporting pitches bowlers can be attacking like we saw in the WC in England. Picking 10 wickets is almost unheard of in most T20 internationals. Also T20 rides too much on momentum, easier for one team to maintain dominance over a course of 2 hours or 30 overs than 60, ODI affords more opportunities for teams to strike back despite not starting well. Essentially if test cricket is 5 sets tennis with no 5th set TB (+ concept of draw after a time limit), ODIs will be like 3 sets incl TBs and T20s are equivalent of NextGen finals that too with 3 sets :facepalm:. Chance of fluke increases as match duration gets lesser....in tests the better team will prevail regularly, in T20s not the case. Also T20 is the least versatile format out there, more about intuition than in-depth thinking on the part of players involved...least cerebral. 

 

Great tests and ODIs, I can remember almost all the details many years later but the great T20s (2007 Ind-Aus SF, 2007 F, 2016 Mohali) I can't really remember much. I can even remember details of boring tests, but entertaining T20s I forget next day morning. 

 

3. For me yes, maybe a small period in 2013-14 or 2017-18 when I felt ODIs were becoming like T50, brainless slogathons. In general I have always preferred ODIs and this year's WC reinforced my faith in the quality this format can provide. Except momentary frustrations with the nature of ODIs, it has always been test>>>>>ODI>T20 for me.

 

4. No, might as well do coin toss than 10 overs a side BS. T10 is best limited to gully and beach cricket, but I have no doubt it will enter the mainstream in a few years time. 4 day cricket again I am sure Poms will push hard for it and will be a feature in some countries with long daylight period...we should stay out of that nonsense. Neither do we have long daylight hours in India (Oct-March period) to ensure 110 overs/day, nor do we want to kill the spin bowling culture in this land. 

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These are essentially 3 different sports because of the big variance in duration and required skill-set. No wonder we have so many format specific specialists. Rarely do we have players mastering all 3 formats and they deserve extra marks for that, someone like King V or Bumrah :hatsoff:

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My best years of watching cricket were pre 2010 ODI games, neither too long as tests nor fast food cricket like t20.

I loved those triangular or quadrangular cricket series back then. 

I would love tests most if I was a cricketer, but as a fan I cannot watch an entire test match, the game rightfully belongs to pre baby boomer era. ODIs were the best before it became 50 over t20 cricket and also too many ODI games being played in a calendar.

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Tests ---- If I have the time, I watch every match or part of a match  involving any big team.  (  And watch all matches involving India ). 

 

My most favourite format.

 

ODIs ---- I  sometimes watch a match involving 2 big teams  (  And watch all matches involving India )

 

My 2nd most favourite format.

 

T20s ---- I hardly watch any international match or T20 league match that does not involve India.  (   I only watch matches involving India ... and parts of IPL matches which involve either Indian fast bowlers or some upcoming big Indian talent.   ) 

 

My least favourite format. I watch it primarily to watch upcoming young Indian cricketers play ( like Gill. Shaw, Mavi, Prasidh, Saini, Avesh, Siraj, Nagarkoti, Nathu, Rahul Chahar etc. )

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I love test cricket - and believe that's the most important format.  Always loved ODIs.  

 

But from a watching perspective, ODIs are only watchable for the WC, not much else.  T20s simply have a higher probability and degree of competitiveness at least in phases.  As much as I am concerned about what T20 cricket's spread means for cricket over all, I have to admit that its the most watchable format of all.

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4 hours ago, sandeep said:

I love test cricket - and believe that's the most important format.  Always loved ODIs.  

 

But from a watching perspective, ODIs are only watchable for the WC, not much else.  T20s simply have a higher probability and degree of competitiveness at least in phases.  As much as I am concerned about what T20 cricket's spread means for cricket over all, I have to admit that its the most watchable format of all.

 

Tri-series or Quadri-series, like we had from the 1980s to the 2000s,  can resurrect ODIs.

 

They were great fun to watch.

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5 hours ago, sandeep said:

I love test cricket - and believe that's the most important format.  Always loved ODIs.  

 

But from a watching perspective, ODIs are only watchable for the WC, not much else.  T20s simply have a higher probability and degree of competitiveness at least in phases.  As much as I am concerned about what T20 cricket's spread means for cricket over all, I have to admit that its the most watchable format of all.

To be honest, let India lose an overseas series badly with no bowler averaging less than 30 in that series, and then see how this poll changes :p:

Then test will be back to being a gora sport.

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