Twenty-five things that are no longer around in cricket

[SK_IH]

Fascinating read, quite nostalgic, having satrted watching cricket in 1996, this brought back many memories

 

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Cricket trump cards
Wasim v Sachin. Azhar v Border. Kapil v Hadlee. These were epic battles in the world of cricket trump cards, available at petrol stations or with a packet of bubblegum, at least in India. Some cards came with nuggets of trivia about a player. "Did you know - Kapil Dev's favorite singer is, believe it or not, Mohinder Amarnath." "Did you know - Allan Border was a clerk and motorcar company representative." Bored in school? Not if someone had a pack of cricket trump cards on them.

 

we all must have had collections of centre fresh cards and big fun cricket cards, plus there used to be a coca cola flip book of ganguly hitting a six , talking about in india ofcourse

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[MechEng]

1. Reverse swing in ODIs. Thank you gora boards for the 2 new ball rule. Made batting ridiculously easy in ODIs.

 

2. Strict rules on chucking, bye bye doosra/teesra/chautha. Okay, if chucking is illegal, then so are high tech bats as well as super flat pitches and small boundaries. 

 

3. Excessive amount of cricket being played and commercialization. 

 

4. When cricketers did not look like Greek gods. Kapil Dev, Sachin, Dravid and etc. were all fit in the sense they could play 5 day cricket. While Kohli, Hardik Pandya and etc. have exceptional fitness standards, they resemble more as MMA fighters than normal cricketers.

[Temujin Khaghan]

There should be IPL trump cards.. 

[Vilander]

6 minutes ago, MechEng said:

Reverse swing in ODIs. Thank you gora boards for the 2 new ball rule. Made batting ridiculously easy in ODIs.

this is the shittest thing...Ind Pak can agree on this and bring the 1 new ball rule again. 

[MechEng]

15 minutes ago, Vilander said:

this is the shittest thing...Ind Pak can agree on this and bring the 1 new ball rule again. 

As per my observation could be the big reason why Lankans have declined massively in ODIs. Their medium pacers are really good at reverse swing and now they get phainty from Rohit Sharma.

[G_B_]

3 hours ago, MechEng said:

1. Reverse swing in ODIs. Thank you gora boards for the 2 new ball rule. Made batting ridiculously easy in ODIs.

 

2. Strict rules on chucking, bye bye doosra/teesra/chautha. Okay, if chucking is illegal, then so are high tech bats as well as super flat pitches and small boundaries. 

 

3. Excessive amount of cricket being played and commercialization. 

 

4. When cricketers did not look like Greek gods. Kapil Dev, Sachin, Dravid and etc. were all fit in the sense they could play 5 day cricket. While Kohli, Hardik Pandya and etc. have exceptional fitness standards, they resemble more as MMA fighters than normal cricketers.

you still have your rohit sharmas....

[sriniwu]

adjusting tv antenna's, praying for power, AIR, sportstar et al were also an inseparable part of cricket in the 80's