MechEng Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 For me it is cricket. It is strangely obsessed with morals which I have not seen in any sport. There are sports like golf, chess or curling which has a limited fan base but you won't find the snobbery you would see in cricket purists. The way batsmen hitting sixes in limited over cricket is looked down upon and batsmen grinding it out in tests is looked up to as some sort of pinnacle is like expecting fans of classical chess looking down at blitz chess fans. Also cannot think of another sport where fans get high by looking at perseverance or endurance of players. This is not criticism of test cricket, more like why would you attach strong moral values to something as casual as a sport? Why are batsmen without helmet seen as brave when it is not a sensible thing to risk yourself getting injured by only playing a sport?
MechEng Posted May 6, 2020 Author Posted May 6, 2020 Also that test cricket separates men from boys. The degree of snobbery is evident in that statement.
nevada Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 I feel tennis is more snobbish. In developed countries there are public tennis courts but in developing countries, there is no such provision. In gully cricket, you just need a bat and ball to play. For tennis, every player has to have a tennis racket costing thousands of rupees, and tennis balls cost quite a bit. The most democratic sport IMO is football. Just 1 ball and 22 players can play. It has allowed many players to rise out of poverty and become superstars.
Clarke Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 The sport where a domestic league is referred to as world series
velu Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) test cricket .. once i explained it to my Korean manager that test cricket is played for 5 days and wont have results eveytime .. he was not impressed Edited May 6, 2020 by velu
coffee_rules Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Gollum said: How are you imbedding pics? I am still not able to on Chrome
Gollum Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 33 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: How are you imbedding pics? I am still not able to on Chrome Simple copy paste man, not on Chrome, me on Opera.
MechEng Posted May 6, 2020 Author Posted May 6, 2020 7 hours ago, velu said: test cricket .. once i explained it to my Korean manager that test cricket is played for 5 days and wont have results eveytime .. he was not impressed I like test cricket but saying that it separates men from boys is snobby. We want to watch Lynn over Pujara.
coffee_rules Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 4 hours ago, Gollum said: Simple copy paste man, not on Chrome, me on Opera. On PC or phone? I can’t even login to ICF from Opera from IPhone, only Chrome is working, but no embeds and can’t browse pages (next page and preview page doesn’t work
Gollum Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 31 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: On PC or phone? I can’t even login to ICF from Opera from IPhone, only Chrome is working, but no embeds and can’t browse pages (next page and preview page doesn’t work Laptop. Haven't tried posting images on phone, generally use it only for browsing
Manny_Pacquiao Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 On 5/6/2020 at 11:24 AM, MechEng said: I like test cricket but saying that it separates men from boys is snobby. We want to watch Lynn over Pujara. Test cricket is working class in australia, west indies and elsewhere. in england, its a very upper class sport. maybe more snobby than golf. Look at all the brands associated with english cricket - all high end products/services that target a wealthier demographic. it used to be very snobby in india as well, until the game got bigger in smaller cities. Indian teams were always made up of educated, wealthy, private school educated guys.
MechEng Posted May 7, 2020 Author Posted May 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, Manny_Pacquiao said: Test cricket is working class in australia, west indies and elsewhere. in england, its a very upper class sport. maybe more snobby than golf. Look at all the brands associated with english cricket - all high end products/services that target a wealthier demographic. it used to be very snobby in india as well, until the game got bigger in smaller cities. Indian teams were always made up of educated, wealthy, private school educated guys. Australia has no proper class system, there even the Prime Minister is not taken seriously. Besides even in golf there are no bhaashans or lectures preaching about moral values unlike test cricket where people get weird pleasures by seeing a batsman score 40 off 180 balls and clap how resilient he is, and if Rohit Sharma hits huge sixes on a road like pitch it is all tamasha cricket.
Vilander Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 10:22 PM, MechEng said: The way batsmen hitting sixes in limited over cricket is looked down upon and batsmen grinding it out in tests is looked up to as some sort of pinnacle Op posts a lament in the garb of trolling. It’s two different sports with different rules and playing conditions batsmen don’t just grind because that’s what they are expected to do they grind as they need to survive to stay long enough to score. 10 wickets for 120 balls vs 10 wickets for 5 sessions means batsmen have to survive longer to score. Loi pitches, fielding restrictions and bowling restrictions means the game is designed to encourage maximum scoring in a way of batsmen attacking while the test game opens the possibility for role reversal with the bowlers to attack at times and batsmen to defend and vice versa leading to dramatic shifts intra game. Both the games feed different palates one is not superior to other necessarily. But when an infantile afgan team looks world beaters in t20 wc but gets absolutely trashed in a test game by sl or wi it gives the measure of the challenge the two versions generally bring hence the purist snobbery.
MechEng Posted May 8, 2020 Author Posted May 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, Vilander said: Op posts a lament in the garb of trolling. It’s two different sports with different rules and playing conditions batsmen don’t just grind because that’s what they are expected to do they grind as they need to survive to stay long enough to score. 10 wickets for 120 balls vs 10 wickets for 5 sessions means batsmen have to survive longer to score. Loi pitches, fielding restrictions and bowling restrictions means the game is designed to encourage maximum scoring in a way of batsmen attacking while the test game opens the possibility for role reversal with the bowlers to attack at times and batsmen to defend and vice versa leading to dramatic shifts intra game. Both the games feed different palates one is not superior to other necessarily. But when an infantile afgan team looks world beaters in t20 wc but gets absolutely trashed in a test game by sl or wi it gives the measure of the challenge the two versions generally bring hence the purist snobbery. How many tests have you watched ball by ball? Following cricbuzz doesn't count.
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