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Post by newby on Oct 2, 2024 8:06:06 GMT
I'm not shedding any tears that Lancashire have gone down but I do feel a Roses match is good for County cricket. It least it would take the spotlight away from Surrey for a little bit of the season.
However, as an avid listener to cricket on R5SX when I'm in the car or in the garden, one of my pet hates is when the commentator of whatever game is being broadcast goes through the other scores and stops after the first division games. As if to say, that's all that matters.
Scott Reed, the Lancashire man was guilty of this on a number of occasions so I hope he enjoys his time in the backwaters of Division 2. He's actually a very good commentator most of the time and pretty good in partnership with doidgy.
Anthony Gibson, the Somerset man is the worst in terms of tending to be only interested in giving the scores of matches that directly affect his beloved Somerset. Another near miss again this season Anthony, oh well, never mind there's always next season!
I do have a cupboard full of other pet hates, most especially why won't Joe Root take his bl***y batting gloves when shaking hands with people. It drives me mental!!!
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Post by davemorton on Oct 2, 2024 9:19:33 GMT
My pet hate at Headingley (apart from that bloody pitch) is that the score on the scoreboard disappears within seconds of the umpires lifting the bails. Last week I wanted to photograph Lyth and Wharton as they walked off at tea, with their scores on the scoreboard behind them (127 and 82, from memory). I had the perfect angle, but no score, only an advert.
And, if you arrive during an interval, you have to ask someone the score, which is ridiculous. At the end of play, if you put on your coat and pick up your bag...too late! It's gone. It won't reappear until just before play starts tomorrow.
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Post by hawke on Oct 2, 2024 13:10:49 GMT
high high very high scoring and then obviously drawn matches
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Post by donnylad on Oct 2, 2024 18:04:27 GMT
Chief Exec wickets ... 4 days play ... 1500 runs ... about 20 wickets or less but the bars full all day and as for the corporates ....
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Post by tbsteve on Oct 3, 2024 3:34:31 GMT
Resistance to change - all the negative comments about T20 when it first started, and now all the constant repeated gripes about the Hundred
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Post by newby on Oct 3, 2024 7:17:01 GMT
Talking of the hundred! I see the ECB are planning to throw even more money at it in terms of a massive pay rise for the players, or at least the top 20% of the elite players they want to attract and tempt away from other T20 leagues running at the same time.
Bit of an arms race if you ask me with all the extra money coming into cricket going into the pockets of the top players and their agents, or more and more to their owners, for whom they work more or less directly.
Isn't that exactly what the ECB said they would be careful not to do when they started this circus!
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Post by karma on Oct 3, 2024 12:00:47 GMT
Resistance to change - all the negative comments about T20 when it first started, and now all the constant repeated gripes about the Hundred Well tbsteve. I think older people are more resistant to change but it also depends upon your perspective. I love live sport and watch very little sport, including cricket on my TV or computer I have full membership (with vote) at Yorkshire for all cricket (men's and ladies) but obviously no 💯. I attended six 💯 games at the outset before making my decision that it wasn't a live sport I really wanted to attend . The music was terrible, the live interviews disruptive , the terrible talking down by.way of explaining what a four or a six were and people just getting up from their seats in the middle of a 'set' and milling about.and blocking my view. I tried, really tried to take it on board as an enjoyable way to spend an evening . In the end what did it for me was the constant shouting from the crowd of "come on Yorkshire" I tried it but it's not for me . This year I came home for my wife to tell me "there's cricket on the BBC" so I began watching with her. It wasn't cricket but a 💯 game and it was OK. Just without the music, or interviews and the crowd milling about and blocking my view or shouting "Come on Yorkshire". I appreciate they only play the 💯 in the UK and you tbsteve. get a lot of your cricket through your 📺 or computer. It was better than being at the 💯 game live!!!! Just. Love 4day cricket. Love One-Day Cup , Love T20 (prefer to be there). 💯 don't hate it , I'll tolerate a short TV viewing but not too often . Now I like women's cricket too, many men don't believe in it 🏏 🐕 |
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Post by hawke on Oct 3, 2024 21:26:29 GMT
As previously said I enjoy going to T20 matches, warts and all. Wouldn’t go near a Hundred game as I believe it undermines the counties. Good for the women’s game though and the counties have proved remarkably resilient in the 50 over comp
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Post by slowleftarmer on Oct 4, 2024 8:50:17 GMT
Cricket pet hates?
1. The ECB - in general but specifically fixture scheduling and prioritising, stopping centrally contracted players from playing for counties when they are fit and otherwise available, ignoring the history and heritage of our game....
2. The Hundred - no need to say any more
3. The farcical way utterly bonkers laws mean they don't play in perfectly good light or when floodlights can be used, just because everyone is required to take a break for a cup of tea or the clock strikes a particular hour at the end of a day
4. The loan system were players move counties for a couple of games - back your youngsters and give them a chance!
5. Any short term overseas signing for less than 3 games - give your own players a chance
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Post by karma on Oct 4, 2024 12:59:58 GMT
Once upon a time I used to think I needed to go on an anger management course
Having read everyone's pet hates , I think I should be running the said anger management course as I don't get angry at these, mainly shrug my shoulders.
However ,I do get mildly miffed when a supporter stands up and moves across my line of vision whilst the over is in play. I don't like it when someone reads out scores in other games when I really save that pleasure for myself when there is a break in play or nowt much is happening.
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Post by donnylad on Oct 4, 2024 15:13:24 GMT
Endless seeming mid-over conferences and arm waving to move a field on the ropes a metre or two.
Bowler bowls, gets walloped somewhere else and then repeats the process.
Start of next over .. another conference.
In the second Middlesex match there was one over of off spin that took 8 minutes to bowl. There were 3 conferences. In 2 of them the wicket keeper trotted (some would say walked) down beyond the bowlers end to put his two-pen'orth in.
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