I don't like 20-20 cricket. I don't. What's the point of it? The one day game is an abbreviated enough version of test cricket in my book. I can appreciate that people enjoy seeing sixes hit and bowlers being smacked all over the place, but a whole game revolving around that is just not cricket.Cricket where wicket taking is essentially irrelevant is not a good idea. It's like those home-run derbies they have at the All-Star game in Baseball...it's fun to watch, but not to be taken seriously. They don't have competitions in the US of States of home run hitting as far as I'm aware.
If our attention spans are so short now that even cricket smiths can't tolerate 50 overs, I fear for us. Cricket doesn't do itself any favours by having five day test matches that end in draws - something most Americans won't believe when you tell them - but I don't think we need 20-20 cricket as an antidote; it'll give new fans' unrealistic expectations of test cricket and before we know it there is no test cricket.
Twenty-20 becomes 10-10, then just 1-1 and then just one ball each and finally a toss of a coin, called TOSS by the marketing folk, which is what they should call 20-20. I may be wrong of course but in retrospect I think the cricket purists will see the 20-20 vision as being rather short sighted and you can quote me.
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Carol Vorderman who on gah's clean Earth do you think you are girlfriend!?
She's quit countdown because she thinks £100,000 a year for slotting bits of cardboard into some holes is not enough.
You may have heard this on the news, but the way this story was spun on the news channels you'd think she was a victim because she was asked to take a 90% pay-cut. What they didn't mention was that she gets £1,000,0000 a year for doing that show. Gasp!!!
She does about 100 shows a year probably, so £10,000 a show. But, she's only involved in the show for three numbers rounds; one and a half minutes a show - 90 fucking seconds!! That's £6,666.66 a minute. Warren Buffet doesn't make that much. They want to pay her just £666.66 a minute and she thinks it's outrageous.
The other 38.5 minutes of the show she just put's the cardboard letters in those slots, any old strumpet can do that. Not only that but, during the advert break she can be seen exploiting her elderly audience with her appearances in insurance and pension fund adverts and adverts selling coffins and so on, which must make her a further pretty penny.
Good ridance I say. Get a younger sluttier looking thing in to do the letters thing and someone with a calculator to do the numbers. Easy.
She's quit countdown because she thinks £100,000 a year for slotting bits of cardboard into some holes is not enough.
You may have heard this on the news, but the way this story was spun on the news channels you'd think she was a victim because she was asked to take a 90% pay-cut. What they didn't mention was that she gets £1,000,0000 a year for doing that show. Gasp!!!
She does about 100 shows a year probably, so £10,000 a show. But, she's only involved in the show for three numbers rounds; one and a half minutes a show - 90 fucking seconds!! That's £6,666.66 a minute. Warren Buffet doesn't make that much. They want to pay her just £666.66 a minute and she thinks it's outrageous.
The other 38.5 minutes of the show she just put's the cardboard letters in those slots, any old strumpet can do that. Not only that but, during the advert break she can be seen exploiting her elderly audience with her appearances in insurance and pension fund adverts and adverts selling coffins and so on, which must make her a further pretty penny.
Good ridance I say. Get a younger sluttier looking thing in to do the letters thing and someone with a calculator to do the numbers. Easy.
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Couldn't agree more on both stories. I've always loved the nuances of test cricket myself, although to be fair, i did enjoy that final yesterday. Not sure about the pink shirts though.
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