Can it get any worse when it comes to pitches?

[chewy]

Bigger, stronger players, with bigger bats and change in mindset after t20 revolution, 300 will be norm except for Pakistan...who struggle to crawl past 250 even 

[f.b.m]

The 2 new ball rule has pretty much killed 50 over cricket.

[King Tendulkar]

4 hours ago, TheWall said:

Problems with the pitch arises only when India wins.....

Bingo 

[Muloghonto]

On 1/19/2017 at 8:22 AM, gakgupta said:

Anywhere in the world would we see these kind of pitches?

350 wasn't enough couple of days back. Now 380 looked almost not enough. One high scoring match in the series is good. But every match is like that, it's no longer lookin like cricket.

All these curators should be fired

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I agree.

Any ODI where 300+ looks easy is boring. Might as well replace bowlers with bowling machines, get 11 batters and make it a 4s and 6s competition.

ODIs have become so meaningless now because it is so much in favor of batsmen. I almost want ball tampering/chucking to be legal now, since pretty much its the only thing that will give us entertaining ODIs.

 

[YCCC]

Anyone remember that online game "Stick Cricket" (sadly I used to play it quite a lot). Well that is what limited overs cricket is like now. I remember hitting everything out of the ground and thinking "this is a bit far fetched"

[sandeep]

4 minutes ago, YCCC said:

Anyone remember that online game "Stick Cricket" (sadly I used to play it quite a lot). Well that is what limited overs cricket is like now. I remember hitting everything out of the ground and thinking "this is a bit far fetched"

Dating yourself a bit aren't you with that stick cricket reference :)  Was fun when it was a novelty though!

 

Next someone will be bringing up "Smack the pingu" or that snowball throwing game...

[YCCC]

 

Spent many a teenage night taking on my pals at Stick Cricket, usually in winter when we couldn't play proper cricket.

10 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Dating yourself a bit aren't you with that stick cricket reference :)  Was fun when it was a novelty though!

 

Next someone will be bringing up "Smack the pingu" or that snowball throwing game...

 

[Cricketics]

9 hours ago, sandeep said:

Problem with that is fielders safety - Baseball style tall padded boundaries, with non-grass "warning tracks" could be a good idea.  I think boundary sizes really need to be increased instead of being shortened the way they are these days.  Make batsmen earn their 4s and 6s.  Short boundaries do not help the game, or increase the entertainment for cricket fans.  

 

Those who like those cheap boundaries need to be brought along so they understand the game better - you don't sacrifice the game to the lowest common denominator.  And Cricket does not really need to do that anymore in the age of T20.  Every ball in T20 is an event, because it matters so much.  

That can be avoided by adding Foam of the fence or making rubber fence. Not too costly either.

 

In NFL here, they have side lines on touch down made up of foams so players do not injure themselves.