whufc wrote:Tony Clifton wrote:The Bedge wrote:whufc wrote:It's interesting isn't it.....T20 was meant to be somewhat the savior to increase interest/popularity and therefore participation rates and financial funding in cricket..
T20 has killed community cricket.
Yeah people are time poor I get that, but with the increase in shorter formats etc people have lost the tolerance / patience / interest in playing longer formats. In the day if you wanted to play cricket you had two choices - play the format on offer, or dont play at all..
People don't want to train, people don't want to field.. they just want to rock up and a bat and bowl and go home... or in the case of some of our members, play a T20, then go play another one.. then another one
I think it's more that changing attitudes towards cricket/time/recreation were what created T20 cricket
I think its a change of attitude towards cricket in particular. Obviously test matches are extremely long
but the need for t20 came because people got bored of 50/50.Shortened versions of other sport just haven't seemed to take off like t20 in cricket. Look at soccer, i love my soccer but can accept its a bit more of a game of chess than a highlight reel sport yet the 90 minute version is what people want. Tennis / Golf are still played in their longest versions with no shorter version really taking over the market albeit LIV are trying to speed up the current format. Gridiron is still a 4 hour marathon, Area football has tried but the long version of the game is still the most attended. Baseball still 9 innings albeit they are trying to speed up the 9 innings version.
Seven srugby has tried to be the T20 of rugby and its been successful but 13 a side is still the number one version of that sport.
Cricket is one of the few sports where the shortened version has pretty much all but taken over in popularity, attendances, finance generating.
I'm not sure that I agree with you there, I reckon it was to attract a new crowd, a game that provides a result inside 3 hours with some glitz and glamour, it worked, but as I've said before, it's like when a kid finds a good place to hide so keeps hiding in the same spot.
The BBL would sell out every game with a condensed season and better players, ideally they need a 7 team comp and play each other once, if they keep the same salary cap they may interest some real talent as the comp will only go for 3-4 weeks instead of the 53 day tournament that it currently is.
It gets a bit of attraction the first week because it's new and we like to check things out, it gets some attraction the 2nd and 3rd weeks because were on break, there's nothing on TV during the Christmas/New Year period (besides Elf and Home Alone), it then becomes dormant until late January when the finals start, it's a flawed finals format anyway as 62.50% of the teams make it.
