Given that every major city in the world would have at least one rectangular stadium (for soccer, rugby, gridiron etc) perhaps we should have a form of cricket that can be played at these venues?
How about a hybrid form of the game, taking from the game of Indoor Cricket…
10 a side, 20 over game…2 bowlers can bowl 3 overs, everyone else has to bowl 2 overs, everyone bats for 5 over (4 partnerships), 5 runs off for a wicket.
The short boundaries square count for 3 runs (5 runs for over the boundary), the long boundaries count for 4 and 6 runs.
Could be an excellent way of promoting cricket in no traditional areas of the globe…could even be an Olympic sport...
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_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Given that every major city in the world would have at least one rectangular stadium (for soccer, rugby, gridiron etc) perhaps we should have a form of cricket that can be played at these venues?
How about a hybrid form of the game, taking from the game of Indoor Cricket…
10 a side, 20 over game…2 bowlers can bowl 3 overs, everyone else has to bowl 2 overs, everyone bats for 5 over (4 partnerships), 5 runs off for a wicket.
The short boundaries square count for 3 runs (5 runs for over the boundary), the long boundaries count for 4 and 6 runs.
Could be an excellent way of promoting cricket in no traditional areas of the globe…could even be an Olympic sport...
Interesting idea, but it's just not cricket.
Interesting, though.
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Given that every major city in the world would have at least one rectangular stadium (for soccer, rugby, gridiron etc) perhaps we should have a form of cricket that can be played at these venues?
That's what we need, some bullsh form of the game even more festive than 2020.
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every city in the world has a dart board ....we should develop a hybrid form of the game based on the rules of cricket and played on a dartboard
England should bat first and have darts thrown at them by the entire Australian team until the Poms all retire hurt...the game should then be abandoned as being a silly idea ...or until a Pom wants to bat again
It's more like indoor cricket, which is a grouse game...played it for years...
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Originally posted by never say never: Actually, I'll relent: maybe 2020 should be moved to the rectangular grounds. That way, it won't interfere with the cricket.
See!??!? Do away with 2020 rubbish and play a game far removed from the original.
_____________________________________________ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Originally posted by never say never: Actually, I'll relent: maybe 2020 should be moved to the rectangular grounds. That way, it won't interfere with the cricket.
See!??!? Do away with 2020 rubbish and play a game far removed from the original.
Erm.. call me dim but how does playing a game far removed form the original get people interested in the original?
A tennis court is an interesting proposition, if you have a reduced game in mind. One of the best ever backyard cricket games I played happened inside a high cyclone wire single (mown) lawn tennis court.
There were four fairly evenly matched blokes in their thirties on each side, so there were three wickets to fall on either side and ten overs per innings to get them.
We had two openers and two tailenders each. Getting a drive between one of the four pairs of small witches hats forward of square got you a four. If it hit the net high, it could be caught on rebound.
There were no sixes, except the traditional six and out, a very bad thing to do at this exalted level! Anything not a four was a single. Twos were hard to steal given the less-than-exalted fitness level of the players. Only the most tragic misfielding permitted overthrows, given the fielders were never far from the ball on the tennis court square.
There were two sets of witches hats behind square on the net, which was less than ten metres behind the batsman, where a four from a hook, pull or late cut might go...
Each team fielded a bowler, a keeper and two fielders, all of whom rotate the roles. No bowler could bowl more than three overs with the high quality kanga cricket style ball we used, so we didn't have to worry about pads or helmets. The ball had an excellent seam and you could get turn and seam of the mown tennis court wicket.
Great catches were taken, both off the wire and in the traditional manner and I got lucky. I bowled the first ball of our opposition's innings, concentrating my turning offies.
My first ball was a slow yorker - I was trying to land it on a length - nearly a full toss. The batsman smashed it at my head but I caught it cleanly in front of my eyes. A little later I was fielding at 'cover', just in from the net and I caught a smashed drive from about ten metres away.
We enjoyed a tight and sometimes hilarious contest. Of the batsmen not actually batting, one was the umpire and the other the scorer.
I still remember the scores. They were bowled out in eight overs. 3-52. Rules insisted a batsman retire if one of his team was still yet to bat. He could return in the event of a wicket. However, we dismissed them and they got the 52 in singles mainly, other than the three fours they managed. Each ball contained a run out chance towards the end.
Then we batted and I had to give my oldest mate lbw for 0 with a ball that trapped him plumb. To this day, it is one thing on which we can't agree. Nevertheless, we got home in the final over, with yours truly managing 17 n.o.
Bowling from one end, with runups restricted by the back wire to about eight metres made for a tight little contest that took a little less than two hours, including a beer break between innings.
It was a quintessential four on four contest and incredibly engaging. I think it would be worthy of exploring it as a contest for kids with a tennis ball. One of cricket's biggest problems with kids is to keep them engaged. Many talented ten year olds can lose the plot with cricket with a lot of standing in the outfield doing nothing.
Four on four keeps them totally engaged and if it creates a future first class cricketer, then it can't be a bad thing.
Given that every major city in the world would have at least one rectangular stadium (for soccer, rugby, gridiron etc) perhaps we should have a form of cricket that can be played at these venues?
How about a hybrid form of the game, taking from the game of Indoor Cricket…
10 a side, 20 over game…2 bowlers can bowl 3 overs, everyone else has to bowl 2 overs, everyone bats for 5 over (4 partnerships), 5 runs off for a wicket.
The short boundaries square count for 3 runs (5 runs for over the boundary), the long boundaries count for 4 and 6 runs.
Could be an excellent way of promoting cricket in no traditional areas of the globe…could even be an Olympic sport...
It's been tried! There were a couple of games played at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff a year or so ago. I think the company that organised them went bust. Perhaps there's a lesson there somewhere.
Before that, I remember that there were a few games played on football grounds in the early '80s - one was certainly played at Stamford Bridge.
To be honest, I can't see it working - if it's a new audience you want for the game, 20/20 is already providing that.
Originally posted by never say never: Actually, I'll relent: maybe 2020 should be moved to the rectangular grounds. That way, it won't interfere with the cricket.
See!??!? Do away with 2020 rubbish and play a game far removed from the original.
Erm.. call me dim but how does playing a game far removed form the original get people interested in the original?
Picky picky picky
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