by Not Scared » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:43 am
by smac » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:56 pm
by on_a_length » Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:57 pm
by leftarmoffie » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:52 pm
on_a_length wrote:I prefer 2 day cricket any day. Nothing bugs me more than having the amount of overs i can bowl limited.
by interested observer » Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:02 pm
normstwin wrote:on_a_length wrote:I prefer 2 day cricket any day. Nothing bugs me more than having the amount of overs i can bowl limited.
I agree there
by Not Scared » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:01 pm
by Lightning McQueen » Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:31 pm
smac wrote:We should be getting as many kids to play cricket as we can - the kids LOVE T20, all associations should offer it to the youngest age groups to increase participation rates.
As kids grow, so should the length of games, but I don't think half is the aim. So long as there is some longer cricket then that's OK. T20, 50/50 and 2 day cricket all have a place in the development of cricketers and cricket.
by Eric_Gilchurch » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:42 pm
by Not Scared » Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:37 am
Eric_Gilchurch wrote:Cricket seems to have lost popularity in recent times. The only way we are gonna entice young people back to playing country cricket is bring in more 1 day games! I'm only recently 21 and can certainly relate to the massive amounts of people my age who would rather go to the beach and chase skirt all day on the piss, rather then stand in a field for 70 overs!
I mean, the reason I turn down offers from district clubs is because I'd rather jump off the West Gate bridge then stand in the field for 90 overs (and I love my cricket more then most things)! If my country comp (GSCA) suddenly changed its program to ALL one dayers, i reckon i could pick up my phone right now and pencil in about 6 recruits in 3 minutes!
On the flip side though, maybe a few of the old timers would lose their sh*t and quit!
by Eric_Gilchurch » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:44 am
Not Scared wrote:Eric_Gilchurch wrote:Cricket seems to have lost popularity in recent times. The only way we are gonna entice young people back to playing country cricket is bring in more 1 day games! I'm only recently 21 and can certainly relate to the massive amounts of people my age who would rather go to the beach and chase skirt all day on the piss, rather then stand in a field for 70 overs!
I mean, the reason I turn down offers from district clubs is because I'd rather jump off the West Gate bridge then stand in the field for 90 overs (and I love my cricket more then most things)! If my country comp (GSCA) suddenly changed its program to ALL one dayers, i reckon i could pick up my phone right now and pencil in about 6 recruits in 3 minutes!
On the flip side though, maybe a few of the old timers would lose their sh*t and quit!
If you did that, yeah, you would get a few old timers quitting but I know a few younger people who would be in the same boat. I'm 26 and I reckon I'd give it the flick if it was all one dayers, perhaps go and play with my old team in Adelaide where I'd play two dayers virtually every game.
I know what you mean about young blokes committing if it was one dayers but I think you'd find that those blokes would never be fully committed anyway. A day of one day cricket is a pretty long day. Most places play about 45 overs a side in one-dayers, which if you add the two innings together is actually 10 overs more than a day of two day cricket. Plus, it may mean that those blokes don't get as much of a bat or bowl either, which is a major reason why a lot of people quit.
by smac » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:57 am
Lightning McQueen wrote:smac wrote:We should be getting as many kids to play cricket as we can - the kids LOVE T20, all associations should offer it to the youngest age groups to increase participation rates.
As kids grow, so should the length of games, but I don't think half is the aim. So long as there is some longer cricket then that's OK. T20, 50/50 and 2 day cricket all have a place in the development of cricketers and cricket.
Unless the kids are getting a bat and a bowl every game you have the dreaded "parent" problems.
by Lightning McQueen » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:13 pm
smac wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:smac wrote:We should be getting as many kids to play cricket as we can - the kids LOVE T20, all associations should offer it to the youngest age groups to increase participation rates.
As kids grow, so should the length of games, but I don't think half is the aim. So long as there is some longer cricket then that's OK. T20, 50/50 and 2 day cricket all have a place in the development of cricketers and cricket.
Unless the kids are getting a bat and a bowl every game you have the dreaded "parent" problems.
Can be arranged in T20, no worries at all. Will see you tonight and we can chat if you like? Barossa (specifically Lyndoch CC) are organising carnivals for this sort of cricket, and they are growing in junior numbers.
by Not Scared » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:10 pm
Eric_Gilchurch wrote:Not Scared wrote:Eric_Gilchurch wrote:Cricket seems to have lost popularity in recent times. The only way we are gonna entice young people back to playing country cricket is bring in more 1 day games! I'm only recently 21 and can certainly relate to the massive amounts of people my age who would rather go to the beach and chase skirt all day on the piss, rather then stand in a field for 70 overs!
I mean, the reason I turn down offers from district clubs is because I'd rather jump off the West Gate bridge then stand in the field for 90 overs (and I love my cricket more then most things)! If my country comp (GSCA) suddenly changed its program to ALL one dayers, i reckon i could pick up my phone right now and pencil in about 6 recruits in 3 minutes!
On the flip side though, maybe a few of the old timers would lose their sh*t and quit!
If you did that, yeah, you would get a few old timers quitting but I know a few younger people who would be in the same boat. I'm 26 and I reckon I'd give it the flick if it was all one dayers, perhaps go and play with my old team in Adelaide where I'd play two dayers virtually every game.
I know what you mean about young blokes committing if it was one dayers but I think you'd find that those blokes would never be fully committed anyway. A day of one day cricket is a pretty long day. Most places play about 45 overs a side in one-dayers, which if you add the two innings together is actually 10 overs more than a day of two day cricket. Plus, it may mean that those blokes don't get as much of a bat or bowl either, which is a major reason why a lot of people quit.
Yep I agree a lot of passionate young cricketers would also be dissappointed if there was a transition like this. I only mention it because in my comp there are several country teams who can't fill an A grade team due to young players having 'something better to do' on a saturday, which is dissapointing, but fair enough. I guess what I neglected to mention is that in country cricket (well my league anyway), it's not massively common to see teams bat out the whole 70 overs (its rare to see a country side that doesn't have a long tail), so you dont have to stand out there for to long!
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