Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

[timmyj51]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

"Why don't you just send your address to the ICC and tell them to send a check made out directly to you."


ICC could give their funds to just about anyone except the USACA and
get better results.



"but they couldn't, due to lack of proper facilities."


They NEVER looked at the possibility of staging matches in a major league
baseball ground.



"India and Pakistan want to play in North America"

"We are keen to play India at those offshore venues where there are a large
number of Pakistani and Indian expatriats."


Thank you, NO! We want to see AMERICANS watching cricket, not
expats.



"This really sounds like an attempt to improve the overall quality of cricket played in the US."


Don't see ANY talk about growing the game among Americans. Once
again, everything's for, by, and of, the expats.

 

[cleazer]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

quick question:
timmyj51, are you an American?

 

[Wilbix]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

"Due to the shape of a baseball field (tapering towards one end), it would be impossible to have a boundary of adequate size for an international match."


Who the hell says you have to have a perfect ground. These'd be
EXHIBITION matches, designed to educate, attract, and enthuse Americans
about cricket. As any marketer will tell you, when you're trying to
get people interested in something new you should have them experience it
in a familiar environment. And what could be more familiar than a baseball
stadium. Really getting tired of you cricket rubes with all your "proper"
this and "proper" that. Just can't see the bigger picture: everything has to be
subordinate to making cricket exciting for Americans.

The ground needn't be perfect, but it should be a reasonable facsimile of a cricket ground. Would you play a football game on a field where one end zone is 30 yards narrower than the other? Or play baseball on a field where the angle between the two baselines is 120 degrees? I know I wouldn't.

 

[timmyj51]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

To repeat: can run a first-class exhibition cricket match in
a major league baseball stadium without any problem
whatsoever. Someone seems to have a paranoia if
the ground isn't perfectly round.

 

[timmyj51]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

"quick question:
timmyj51, are you an American?"



Give ya three guesses....and the first two don't count.

 

[Mudassar Nazar]

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship

To repeat: can run a first-class exhibition cricket match in
a major league baseball stadium without any problem
whatsoever. Someone seems to have a paranoia if
the ground isn't perfectly round.

Remember the shape of the Gabba when it had the dog track etc. It was almost a teardrop. The clincher though for me, whilst slightly off topic, is the ground in Canterbury (Old Dart) with a tree in one corner. Oddly enough when the tree fell down, rather than reclaim their cricket ground to its fullest extent, the Canterbury powers that be transplanted another tree. Good to see tradition still counts for something in some places, unlike the Gabba, where you'll be evicted from the ground for counting backwards from 10. Apparantly it is conducive to the Mexican wave. In other reports, an 8 year old boy happily playing with a beach ball was cautioned by no less than 3 Police Officers. What the hell is going on? Anyone would think Bjelke-Peterson is running Queensland Cricket from the grave.