There have been a lot of questions over whether the dwindling attention span of the average cricket fan can afford to take in another test of over 1300 runs in the first innings. Questions about the future of test cricket are being raised. People who bet on sports regularly are also considering quitting citing the amount of boredom involved in such games.
I am referring to the India – Sri Lanka Test Series. The pitches here are flat and unresponsive, and are clearly sounding the death knell of test cricket. That is what the media wants us to believe anyways. The same media who has a lot to gain if the overall attention shifts from Tests to T20s. So what gives?
Sanjay Manjrekar wrote in an article in TOI recently that test cricket is on the decline, even refuting the fact that there has been a 70% result ratio in the past decade. He refuted it stating that a lot has changed during the last decade. I somehow didn’t get that.
This is the part of the blog post where I give my opinion. Today, I am going to ask a few questions to cricket fans. True fans. Did you find the second test match between Sri Lanka and India boring? Probably yes! But the first test? No, because it produced a result, and because it involved the methodical conquest of one team by another.
The difference between the two tests? No, not the pitch. It was the application by the Indian batsmen and a certain Murali. Note how every aspect of the organization is blamed for such drab games, but not the players. I rest my case,
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
Lena´s last [type] ..Фауна Галапагосских островов во многом оказала влияние на Чарльза Дарвина