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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie  Cricket is brilliant! Much better than that glorified game of rounders they call "baseball".
20-20 is a good introduction, but once you really get into test match cricket you really appreciate just how good it is.  |
I realize test is the ultimate form of cricket, and yes it clearly is the form of cricket which requires the most strategy and probably more strategy than pretty much any other mainstream game. But it is very long and drawn out and thus makes watching a whole game almost impossible.
Twenty20 however has lots of action, is done in a few hours, and I think with the right marketing could even become mainstream in North America, maybe not like football or hockey but probably more like MLS.
Raj, yeah I know M.S. Dhoni (his salary is crazy!) and Sachin Tendulkar (arguably the greatest batsman ever!).
Did you see Yuvraj Singh 6 sixes in one over during the Twenty20 Cricket world cup against England? Absolutely crazy!
P.S.
Twenty20 is (from Wikipedia):
Twenty20 is a form of
cricket, originally introduced in the
United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), in 2003. Both teams have a single
innings and bat for a maximum of 20
overs.
A Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 75 minutes, thus bringing the game closer to the timespan of other popular team sports such as
football. It was introduced to create a lively form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and as such it has been very successful. The ECB did not intend that Twenty20 would replace other forms of cricket and these have continued alongside it.