T/20 World Cup

Originally posted by clobber I am astounded at those prices incidentally. For those who can't be bothered to work it out for themselves, the most expensive tickets come in at around £8.35!

I just had a crazy thought (nothing unusual there).  What if the ICC doesnt really mind that the WC was a shambles? And are trying really hard to make the T20 WC a huge success, so they can shift from ODIs to T20 sooner than they planned to have even more commercial success.

  I can't see T20 overtaking the 50 over format as the premier one day event.  I think the players enjoy the biff/bash of the T20 (well the batsmen do!) , but accept that the longer 50 over game is the fairer contest.
       The best side always wins the WC , I'm not sure that'll be true , come September.

T/20 format just cann't discount the importance of ODI format in my opinion. It's a great fun though and a huge source of entertainment for the novices. It's potential to attract new fans, who may become real cricket lovers with good understanding of the game onces they get attracted to it, gives it some importance. So I am for this format.

Edited by shan - 29 June 2007 at 10:44am

   The organising committee in SA are really jacked up and are always in the news. It's being taken very seriously and I get the impression that the ICC is pushing them hard to make sure we don't have another debacle as we did in Barbados.
     What I thought was going to be a fun event might turn out to be something quite different. If the teams really go at it hammer and tongs then this format could threaten the 50 over game.
     It'll make interesting reading , comparing the profit margins of the WC and this T20 competition.

Good and bad news for us Cape Townians!!  Good news is that the England/Australia clash is here on September 14th and costs just R40 !!

    The bad news is that England play South Africa in the Rugby WC on the same day!!  Play starts at 9pm which is the time the cricket should finish.
    
    The cricket isn't anywhere near as important to me - rugby is a religion here and I just have to see our lads putting SA to the sword. 

    So I'll catch the cricket on the TV , there's another 8 matches in CT and I'll get along to some of those.  Bloody awful planning by someone - obviously anti-English administrators out there!

you'll get hammered in the rugby too 

Do you reckon they'll have a TV showing the game in the press box?

I'll still take the cricket, thank you very much.  :-)

So, India have announced their probables for the T20 WC.  The big 3 have been left out.  Apparently, Dravid told the selectors that the 3 senior players (Sachin, Sourav and Rahul) did not want to be considered for the tournament and the request was accepted by the selectors.  This could mean one of two things:

No comparison, buddy.  The BCCI are in a league of their own.  ;-)

I can't wait for this 20/20 worldcup but asual the sad part is once more i will be in school when the match will be playing.

 Yep , there's going to be some big shoes to fill in the near future. Not dissimilar to Lillee , Chappell and Marsh calling it a day all those years ago.

  Still , the game goes on , but when the nucleus of the side goes it's natural that they'll be some blips.

Originally posted by Sledger  Yep , there's going to be some big shoes to fill in the near future. Not dissimilar to Lillee , Chappell and Marsh calling it a day all those years ago.   Still , the game goes on , but when the nucleus of the side goes it's natural that they'll be some blips.

What's with all the sarcasm buddy??