snakehips 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Anyone following it? I've watched a few games this time and there seems to be a Sachin Tendulkar hero worship developing - wherever he is playing in the country. Today's game is just something else - the crowd are absolutely deafening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Anyone following it? I've watched a few games this time and there seems to be a Sachin Tendulkar hero worship developing - wherever he is playing in the country. Today's game is just something else - the crowd are absolutely deafening. Developing? Do you know anything about cricket? He's a had cult-like following for years in India, especially in Mumbai (his home city). It's not uncommon for droves of Indian 'cricket' fans to leave early in the morning of a test match if he gets out early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 Anyone following it? I've watched a few games this time and there seems to be a Sachin Tendulkar hero worship developing - wherever he is playing in the country. Today's game is just something else - the crowd are absolutely deafening. Developing? Do you know anything about cricket? He's a had cult-like following for years in India, especially in Mumbai (his home city). It's not uncommon for droves of Indian 'cricket' fans to leave early in the morning of a test match if he gets out early. No, I know nowt about cricket. Despite watching it all my life and working in India for the past 6 years. Yes, I know Mumbai is his home town but the IPL crowds this year has been increasingly fervent whenever Tendulkar has been playing. Please carry on with my education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Ladies, please I love a bit of IPL btw fwiw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Id assumed it was the drink IPA and Snakey couldnt spell....especially when I saw Alex had the last post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Anyone following it? I've watched a few games this time and there seems to be a Sachin Tendulkar hero worship developing - wherever he is playing in the country. Today's game is just something else - the crowd are absolutely deafening. Developing? Do you know anything about cricket? He's a had cult-like following for years in India, especially in Mumbai (his home city). It's not uncommon for droves of Indian 'cricket' fans to leave early in the morning of a test match if he gets out early. No, I know nowt about cricket. Despite watching it all my life and working in India for the past 6 years. Yes, I know Mumbai is his home town but the IPL crowds this year has been increasingly fervent whenever Tendulkar has been playing. Please carry on with my education. You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game. Hope that's made things a little clearer. IPL is entertaining, but its inception may well be looked back upon as the beginning of the end of test cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Maybe but I think it's more likely to kill off one-day stuff. ODIs in particular seem to have lost a lot of their importance. Partly due to them being played in a hurry at the end of a long tour more often than not and also because of the ridiculously convoluted World Cup, which the ICC has ruined imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 The 50 over format is dead in the water, I agree. Overkill is the word. There is an awful lot of limited overs cricket played though, not just tacked onto tours but we have the world cup every four years, the ICC trophy every 2 years and now the Twenty20 world cup every 2 years too. The 50 over game is still very popular in the subcontinent though, India especially - they hardly play any tests. Our last tour had 2 tests and something like 7 ODIs scheduled (originally, it was at the time of the Mumbai terrorist attacks). Plus with Tendulkar becoming the first batsman to make 200 in one of them I'd imagine their enthusiasm will continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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