Twenty20
I went to the KFC T20 Big Bash League game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in character. My self-assigned role was to play the sporting curmudgeon, a cricket connoisseur abhorring the form of the game designed for people who don’t like cricket, and left-wing romantic appalled by the abominations of corporate consumption capitalism at its most bone-headedly tasteless.
Attending my first live Twenty20 event was an exercise in leisure and education, meaning that I was looking for fun but brought my notepad along.
Following the pedestrian flow through Surry Hills to Moore Park and breathing humid evening air spiced with vehicle and restaurant emissions, the collective feeling was unmistakeably that of summer carnival.
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Cricket’s Big Bash domestic T20 league kicked off on the weekend, and if you’ll excuse the pun, the thing was a smashing success.
TV ratings were huge, with over 900,000 tuning in to the match between Shane Warne’s Melbourne Stars and Dave Warner’s Sydney Thunder. That’s the fourth highest-rating show ever on Australian Pay TV.
OK, so the bums-on-seats weren’t as numerous as some predicted, but with people still working and using the precious evening hours to go Christmas shopping, that was to be expected. Just wait till January.
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steve says:
What about the commentary ? All of a sudden , all of a sudden , all of a sudden , all of a sudden. The phrase is driving me nuts. Allan Border , great cricketer ,possibly the most droll commentator of all time. And re Mark Waugh , is he… Read more »
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AJL says:
T20 bores me. It’s just so damn repetitive and predictable. Onto more important things, like how the hell Haddin is allowed within 100m of the Test team while he seems to think that 5/18 in a Test is time to play like a T20? Or hoping that India cop a… Read more »
Cricket is the new footy. That’s the implicit message from Cricket Australia, who yesterday expanded the Big Bash state Twenty20 competition to eight teams, including two each from Sydney and Melbourne.
Traditionalists, of course, are spitting the kind of bland old-fashioned flavourless chips they always spit when anything changes in their goldfish bowl.
But they can no more stem the tide of Twenty20 cricket than they can force people to the opera en masse instead of to the iTunes store to buy the latest Lady Gaga “song”. And that’s not agenda pushing. That’s fact.
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n_dude says:
T20 is like a Maccas meal. It fills you up quickly but does not satisfy you. On the other hand Test cricket is like a degustation meal at a 3 hat restaurant. It not only fills you up, but it leaves you satisfied. Read more »
Herald Sun golf reporter, Mark Hayes, opened his Monday piece on Scott Laycock’s win in the inaugural Surf Coast Knockout, with the statement that it occurred “on a day that stands to change the face of Australian Golf”.
He was referring to the world first knockout golf format. The championship was decided by three rounds of stroke play. On the fourth and final day the top 32 players competed in a series of six hole matches in a knockout draw to determine the winner.
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CCC says:
would be great to see some of the mini-games from TigerWoods Golf on the Xbox/Wii/PS be translated to the course. Targets, battle golf (if win hole can remove 1 club from opponents bag), alternate shot.. Read more »
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