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You big American softies. Cricket matches last FIVE DAYS, with breaks for tea.
by dash2 9y ago
You big American softies. Cricket matches last FIVE DAYS, with breaks for tea.
- kcanini 9y agoOh, like in Twenty20 cricket?
- droidist2 9y agoThat sounds interesting! What about breaks for sleep?
- chrisseaton 9y agoIt's five days of play, during normal day-time hours. It's like a festival that you go to.
- komali2 9y agoUp to ten days if the Cranker can't get committee approval for third season overtime. (Sucks too cause then mandatory tea breaks swap out biscuits for bread and jam)
- bsder 9y agoI think you're yanking my chain ... The fact that I can't tell says something about cricket ...
- Symbiote 9y agoI took an American colleague to watch the cricket on the village green one lunchtime, just a few minutes from our office. Nothing professional, this was just the local cricket club. They bowled about four balls before there was a shout from the clubhouse, and all the players left the field to drink sparkling wine and eat strawberries. I think my colleague understood the spirit of the game.
- sooper 9y agoYes, but they also learned from that and created one dayers. Even that proved too slow for some, so now we have 20-20...
- bigger_cheese 9y agoIt might just be the purist in me but I don't really enjoy limited overs cricket. Test cricket (the 5 day matches) on the other hand is just about the perfect spectator sport for the Australian summer I reckon. You have the Xmas Holiday period with time off from work combined with the fact it's too hot to do anything around the house. So putting your feet up enjoying a few beers and watching the cricket with your extended family is a great way to pass the time.
- BigJono 9y agoNah, I disagree. I do like test cricket but I absolutely have to be doing something else at the same time to watch it (like playing a game or programming). It's a terrible spectator sport. On the other hand, limited overs cricket doesn't do much for me either. I'd rather just watch a footy game at that stage.
- abritinthebay 9y ago20-20 is really fun but it’s almost a whole different game in approach than Test cricket. It feels like the difference between the NFL & Rugby - related but a vast strategic and game flow difference
- shaklee3 9y agoWe're talking about sports with real athletes.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoWhat makes baseball more athletic than cricket?
- shaklee3 9y agoFaster pitches, not a gigantic paddle, and running even when you may not have liked how well you hit it.
- stordoff 9y ago> running even when you may not have liked how well you hit it. How many times are you expected to run in baseball though? In cricket, it could easily be 100+ (22-yards a time). Same with bowlers - a 10-20 yard run up for potentially hundreds of balls is a not insignificant amount of work. I feel like you are comparing two things that are _different_, and just deciding one is lesser for no clear reason (both sports seem quite athletic to me). I'm also not sure what difference the size of the bat makes to athleticism (they also aren't _that_ much different in size: <4.25in width vs. ~2.7in for baseball, <38in length vs. ~42in for baseball, and weigh roughly the same: ~1.2kg for a cricket bat, ~1kg for a baseball bat).
- shaklee3 9y agoI'm just joking around, but I think it was taken very seriously.
- bfhd 9y agoCricket deliveries are similar speeds to baseball pitches, aren't they? Also, outs are cheap in baseball, but very expensive in cricket - so playing more conservatively is optimal.
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- robryan 9y agoBaseball would probably have more game days in a year than the average international cricketer would, counting all levels they are involved in. The US baseball season seems to make it impossible to watch all your teams games, even for the most dedicated fan.
- yeowMeng 9y agoYou can watch an average American baseball game in a ‘condensed’ format in under 20 minutes. The condensed format shows key pitches and plays.
- criddell 9y agoThe blackout rules don't help either.
- Larrikin 9y agoThis is a positive to me. Pretty much every day during baseball season, if I feel like watching baseball I have the option. I don't want to watch everyday, but I love being able to watch basically any time I want.
- yes_or_gnome 9y agoUs Cubs fans had a truly awful decompression in 2016. Don't get me wrong, winning the world series was amazing. But, I wish they did it in less dramatic fashion. And, to stifle the high, there was an absolute (and ongoing) tragedy less than a week later.
- phamilton 9y ago> even for the most dedicated fan I watched 100+ regular season games of the Dodgers last season. It was a lot of baseball. That plus an exhausting World Series meant I had to decompress and avoid sports for a few months.
- justinator 9y agoThink about how the players must have felt!
- banned1 9y agoFor those interested, the longest baseball game in history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_baseball_game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_basebal... (From a baseball player who once attempted to play cricket with my Indian friends. Threw out my shoulder in the first “at bat”)
- wglb 9y agoSo how would you rank Rugby here?