The Cricket has been fantastic at the moment; there is something about test match cricket that can't be matched. Five days of competition where any one moment can change a whole game; you can be on top for four days and lose it on the fifth, you can have a seemingly guaranteed win snatched from you by one stubborn batsmen or one gifted bowler. I wanted to write another blog here about why I love this sport, why I think it's better than any other sport in the world because it can give days on end of tension and excitement, how any one man can change the whole match and yet it still takes a team to win. It's gladiatorial and also communal. (Twenty20 and ODI cricket are not the same in the slightest, they're like Cricket for people with a three second attention span.) But I'm not going to write it, partly because I've spoke garrulously of my love for the game before and partly because Scyld Berry has done a marvellous job of explaining it here at the Daily Telegraph. I particularly love the Troy analogy; it hits the nail on the head in a way few people could.
Scyld Berry: England and South Africa show how to sell the long game
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Oh, man, go on, just try, try and recreate the brilliance.
Pete 244 days ago
I tried. Honest I did. But it slipped through my fingers like water, dripping away into insignificance, until all I could do was wipe my hands dry and sigh over the memory of it glittering over my palms.
Howzat?
Katja 233 days ago
Howzat?
]]>The Cricket has been fantastic at the moment; there is something about test match cricket that can't be matched. Five days of competition where any one moment can change a whole game; you can be on top for four days and lose it on the fifth, you can have a seemingly guaranteed win snatched from you by one stubborn batsmen or one gifted bowler. I wanted to write another blog here about why I love this sport, why I think it's better than any other sport in the world because it can give days on end of tension and excitement, how any one man can change the whole match and yet it still takes a team to win. It's gladiatorial and also communal. (Twenty20 and ODI cricket are not the same in the slightest, they're like Cricket for people with a three second attention span.) But I'm not going to write it, partly because I've spoke garrulously of my love for the game before and partly because Scyld Berry has done a marvellous job of explaining it here at the Daily Telegraph. I particularly love the Troy analogy; it hits the nail on the head in a way few people could.
Scyld Berry: England and South Africa show how to sell the long game
]]>Huh? I SO commented on this earlier. Of course, like all lost posts/comments, I can never recreate the genius. You'll just have to take my word for it.
Katja 244 days ago
Oh, man, go on, just try, try and recreate the brilliance.
Pete 244 days ago
I tried. Honest I did. But it slipped through my fingers like water, dripping away into insignificance, until all I could do was wipe my hands dry and sigh over the memory of it glittering over my palms.
Howzat?
Katja 233 days ago
Howzat?
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Huh? I SO commented on this earlier. Of course, like all lost posts/comments, I can never recreate the genius. You'll just have to take my word for it.
Katja 244 days ago