The colour under the team names correspond with the colour the team will wear. Yes, this means the Perth Scorchers will wear bright orange and the Sydney Thunder will wear "electric" green (as Crapinfo calls it). There is also going to be private investment in teams, overweight cheerleaders, cheap looking scoreboard fireworks and three awful songs played over and over again through every match.
It's all class.
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T20 is not cricket. And all this s*it surrounding it makes it even worse for me...
I second Psych Babbler.....
Even I feel myself getting tired of T20 cricket and IPL....
IPL is not Cricket. T-20 is not Cricket. Keiron Pollard is not a Cricketer [So said the Rolls Roys of Fast Bowlers Mike Holding, not me]...
But what the heck ? This is something you can actually watch going to the stadium without losing sleep over your national allegiance and timezone. And you don't end up as a convict in stadium for a whole day or almost whole week.
I love Cricket. That is meal for the soul. IPL is Glicket [Glamor + Cricket] ! We love our Stars and Starlets and we love those DLF Maximums !
Come on guys, you love Pizzas, fast food and Lays right ?
T-20 is exactly that, Fast food for the soul ! Enjoy without worrying about who won or who went to hell !
I actually quite like T20 cricket although I think that it's way too weighted in favour of the batsmen. A boundary (whether a 4 or a 6) is nice to see when it's the outcome of a good shot; it's less interesting when it's the result of circumscribed bowling and restricted field setting. But in general, I agree with Govind Raj that it's nice and short and fast food for the cricket tragic's soul. I do, however, think that at the moment, there's just way too much 'short cricket' around. One form is quite enough and T20 - especially if the bowlers and fielders were let more free - would fill that part quite adequately.
I don't know what to make of the new BigBash league. It seems a bit ... forced? And silly. Especially considering how the expanded number of matches apparently are going to cut into the number of Sheffield Shield games. That, if true, I disagree with entirely.
The new BBL won't cut into the number of Shield matches. The loonies that run CA managed to haul themselves back from that brink somehow.
The names are fairly silly. With the single team in WA, why couldn't they just call it the Warriors? Not that it is any cleverer, but it's got the same coach and I assume it will have most of the same players.
I do like the sound of Glicket though. I might steal that.
I have to admit I used to dislike T20 and refuse to support it and all that, but then it became clear that the only way I will ever get to watch live cricket with an autistic child is if it a pretty damn short version. And I started to enjoy it.
What I don't like is all the guff that comes with it - the cheerleaders (this is not American football!) and the gaudy clothes and the stupid music and the ridiculous team names. All things that the Aussie state version is adding.
English county cricket - fortunately - is lagging way behind in this. You can just enjoy the cricket.
Although there are chubby dancing girls sometimes.
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