I watch BBL, go Scorchers 🔥🔥🔥, but it is such a different game to test cricket.
Andy Zaltzmann has called test cricket like a novel and I think that is exactly how I feel, a good test has all the suspense and drama you could want. T20 on the other hand is a fun game to watch.
That’s the promise of it, anyway. The problem is…it just…isn’t? Far too often, the result is obvious halfway through the first innings. And if not then, then within the first quarter of the second innings anyway. It makes the rest of the game completely not worth watching. It’s the rare game that’s actually unclear until the final over or two.
In football-type sports, there’s always the hope that the losing team might fight back and win it, or excitement about the obvious winning team running up the scoreboard. But in cricket, because the strongest batsmen go first within an innings, and only one side can possibly score runs in an innings, it just…doesn’t have that potential for drama over a short 20 overs.
I watch BBL, go Scorchers 🔥🔥🔥, but it is such a different game to test cricket.
Andy Zaltzmann has called test cricket like a novel and I think that is exactly how I feel, a good test has all the suspense and drama you could want. T20 on the other hand is a fun game to watch.
That’s the promise of it, anyway. The problem is…it just…isn’t? Far too often, the result is obvious halfway through the first innings. And if not then, then within the first quarter of the second innings anyway. It makes the rest of the game completely not worth watching. It’s the rare game that’s actually unclear until the final over or two.
In football-type sports, there’s always the hope that the losing team might fight back and win it, or excitement about the obvious winning team running up the scoreboard. But in cricket, because the strongest batsmen go first within an innings, and only one side can possibly score runs in an innings, it just…doesn’t have that potential for drama over a short 20 overs.
I mean attendance sure says that T20 is more fun than Test.