Best version of Cricket

Best version of Cricket

Whats your fave version and why?

Test.

It's called a test for a reason.

It's the true test of wits, tactics, nerve and skill.

Plus it's a great excuse to sit on your arse and listen to the radio, drinking beers, for 5 days straight.

50 overs

cut and thrust of a real game but over in a reasonable time'and i like pyjamas

nighty night 

Test. The only version of the game that allows players to display their skills and ability in full.

Quite like the 50-over game too, because it also allows a wide range of skills to be displayed, but prefer tests.

Have no time for the farken 20/20.

Nothing better than watching quality test cricket, i still think the 05 Ashes is possibly the best sport i have ever watched

What is this cricket you speak of?

Test. No doubt. The purists form.

Test cricket without a question. It's the greatest sport in the world. (Football close second though)

surely its football first,THEN test match cricket.

lol @ Scots playing cricket.

Apparently Scotland are (or were recently), the highest ranking non test nation in cricket, won the ICC trophy a couple of years ago (the non test nations cricket comp)

Although I read the story a while back of an Englishman's attempt to start cricket up in the north of Scotland, couldn't stop the guys whacking each other with the bats longs enough for them to concentrate on hitting the ball

love the tests, what other game can carry the intrigu of a bowler battling a batsmen for so long! really shows up players weakness/strengths - and relaly only the class players shine at test level but in the hit and giggle games any old slogger or partime bawlker can succeed.

Test cricket by a country mile.

NZ hasn't beaten OZ in a test match since 1993. 

Test Cricket against SA, Aus, Eng, WI, Pak, Ind, SL is the best.

Where's the 'stickcricket' option?

Backyard. No competition.

agreed- dog outfielders, chilli bins or beer crates as wickets

Can't get out on first ball....sweet times.....how about a YF backyard challenge?

This is a big call but Salmon i think you have just had the best idea in the history of Yellow Fever. A backyard cricket challenge, we could do it the afternoon of one of the saturday night games! You are a genuis of a man!

now we just got to find a suitable bakyard!
who has either a:

• grumpy old neighbour with a rabid dachshund
• a beer fridge
• a gorse bush
• a 45 degree slope

any of those and we have found our nirvana!

Hmmmm you really have me thinking about this now, what about using the road outside the Bencher. Getting it closed putting up some walls, backyarding it up a bit. Could have potential. I know ZM had thought about doing a mini football tourny thing on the park across from Four Kings to promote the Nix. I am going to mull over this idea. Damn you Salmon for your genuis, unless you can impart similar genuis when it comes to Property Law?

waitangi park...hell, its blanket man's backyard

L and P did a promotion earlier this year where they ran a 5 a side backyard tourny.

http://www.byctourney.co.nz/

Perhaps yf could run something similar over a weekend, with the final being held on a sunday afternoon before a match?


Gangsta!2008-10-07 19:30:03

ok-pick a date and shelve it-we'll sell it to feverish et al and start it up in a new thread...deal?

(and on the topic why didn't you include your beloved indoor cricket in the poll?)

And for that matter 6's, Double Wicket and Everyones favourite - Cricket Max!

I love how a minimized version is called "max"

French cricket ftw.

That the one where you hit the legs?

Cricket's boring.  Everybody knows it but people still watch it and say they like it - I can't fathom why.  It's too long, nothing happens, and to reiterate my original point, it's boring.

Backyard cricket is OK, and French cricket to a lesser extent.

Troll.

bakyard french cricket max over 5 days?

Not if I'm batting you don't.

+1
Good post
etc

XXXX Beach Cricket.

The backyard at my old place was the best for backyard cricket. Was big enough,had a downward slope,grumpy neighbour over the fence,dogs over the other (6 and out...and you had to fetch the ball...not fun),bushes the ball could get lost in. And trees at the exact distance or a decent caught behind

Test or ODI's. 20/20's can f**k off. I can't get into them at all.

There hit and giggle, they should be with the likes of Cricket 6s and Double Wicket - Get about 2 minutes coverage once a year.