England will be happy today

Root got a big score.

A big crowd with very high prices at Lord as always. No trouble in the crowd

Pitch doing a bit and might spin.

The sun's shining down on English cricket.

 

Aye, nice if you can afford it.

 

Got home from work and watched last hour , class batsman root

 

Plenty of people can. Watching the TV and reading and listening to what people say then it's interesting to tally up what been said on here compared to the reality of the game.

 

I don't want to say that this post was obvious, but they're are yet to be discovered tribes living in the Amazon Rain Forest that knew you were going to post that!


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Thought I'd just post about the reality of what's happening. When I watch the 1990's stuff what Sky did it doesn't look like what people post on here or what the players actually say. Attendances are good at most grounds from what I see. Think the cheaper grounds for tickets seem to be the ones that are struggling which may see Headingley and Durham both or one not getting a test in the future. The London and Soth grounds are doing well.

 

I heard a bloke called Carstairs got in a bit of tizz when a spiffing young chap named Barty spilt his Pimms.

You ever been to Lord's?

 

Yep, I know plenty of people can. Lots can't as well, but then they're probably those whose opinions you don't hear as much about on the television.

 

The London and Southern grounds also get the better matches, both in terms of opposition and usually scheduling.

Prime example was last "summer" when, in their wisdom the ECB scheduled tests in Durham I'm very early summer then Hedingley very soon after. Cricket fans aren't going to sit in the temperatures we get in the north in early summer, to watch a match against second rate nations.

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Not sure tbh. Lords can get two tests a year and they do well and sales at Hampshire seems to do well.

 

Whats not to be sure of? i thought it was well known that the ECB shafted Durham by encouraging them to spend millions(that they didn't have) on improvements to get their ground up to Test status before giving them a single test against Sri Lanca very early in the summer(where historically the weather is *****), before scheduling the second test at Headingly only a week(I think) later.

A lot of cricket fans who don't live near either ground will have been forced to choose which game to go to, where if Durhams were the only Northern game they would have attracted lots more through the gate.

Lords is a bit of an anomaly, and will always attract almost full crowds. It helps too that a massive chunk of their attendees are retired and have the time available to them to attend a 5 day Test, and usually have lots of disposable income. And trust me, I've been to Lords and it is the most over rated ground in cricket. Give me the Western Terrace any day...

 

For sure - I think everyone agreed that Durham were hard done by last year.

The problem as I see it, though, is too many test grounds combined with much less test cricket. Edgbaston, Headingley, Old Trafford and Trent Bridge need regular test cricket, but the likes of Glamorgan, Durham and Hampshire also deserve it given that they've been encouraged to upgrade their ground. It's bad enough that Lord's is guaranteed a test in every series, but once you add in the Oval, and consider that more and more series consist of four or even three matches, then it all starts to look extremely London-centric.

But sort of dropping the Oval as a test ground or - shock horror - saying that touring teams don't have to visit Lord's, I'm not sure what can be done about it.

 

That doesn't make any sense as a response to the original post. Apart from anything else, any of the big grounds could "do well" if they were lucky enough to get two tests a year.

 

I think thats the issue, Lords getting a game every series. If all the grounds were put on a strict rotation, then every ground would be guaranteed at least a Test or two per year then that would stop the unfairness. But we can't upset the stiffs at Lords, can we?

 

Any any touring player where he wants to play it's always lords. Simple fact.

The rotation of the rest must happen fairly though without this stupid bidding process

 

Watched and played cricket for about 45 years, until recently. Not seen a single ball of today's game, as Sky is too expensive, as is attending the games live. Many young cricketers I know who love cricket have never heard of Joe Root. How would they hear about him, he's never on TV?

Cricket at village level is dying on its feet. Nobody wants to play, nobody is interested, teams and clubs are folding all over the place. I wonder why that is?

 

Too many teams stahlrost

 

Not enough players Hemsworth. The number of clubs and teams has been roughly constant for decades, until recently when clubs have started to fold. Crofton is not far from you and has had a cricket club for decades - not any more. Gone. Dodworth no longer has a club. My club had 4 junior teams 3 years ago. Guess how many we've got now? That's right, none. Nobody is interested in cricket, because they can't watch it anywhere. It's a sad but inevitable disaster which I predicted in 2005. Sadly, I was right.

 

More cricket clubs in Yorkshire than Australia. That's quite clearly not right. One in South Kirby, Frickley and Fitzwilliam. Far too many.

 

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