Alastair Cook
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The England captain has spent over 800 minutes at the crease for 250 runs in the first test against Pakistan, whether or not if you like cricket that is an astounding feat of concentration and application!
The most amazing fact from his performance is that Cook has spent every minute of the test on the pitch....... Well done Cooky!!
The most amazing fact from his performance is that Cook has spent every minute of the test on the pitch....... Well done Cooky!!
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And how can you play a game for 5 days and chances are no one will win.
And if you do really well at the start there probably won't be time for you to win.
And 90% of one team sit on a balcony for days on end.
and they stop for tea during the game!
and the players often sign autographs whilst the game is going on!
I could go on!
The game makes no sense to me!
261 runs, amazing achievement.
Chris Bass, I won't try and convert you to cricket, I've always believed that you either enjoy the game or not, but imagine standing outside in 40° temperatures and performing to the very best of your ability for hours on end!
147 in your final innings, bookending your career with a fifty and a hundred to mirror your first test innings
Well done Chef! Quite probably the greatest batsman England has ever produced.
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There's not many that would get that. A shame. Goodness knows what he would make of the US at the moment.
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Just some older (non cricket fans) I actually thought that's who the thread would be about.
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Go back a bit over 35 years and there were three TV channels, one of them showed test cricket live. Also the era when Steve Davis could become a huge star, remember.
Apart from street fighting man, and Pietersen, none of the recent crop seem to stand out for good or bad.
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This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Yes that was part of the point I was making, is it inevitable that we don't share these cultural phenomena in the way we used to.
Probably an interesting discussion to be had how this impacts on more important things than how famous our sports stars are beyond their own sport. Does it affect political view with people insulated from alternative opinion by following only those who share their outlook on social media and consuming their news from sources with a particular slant, does it impact on social racial and religious integration etc?
Cricket chose to be on paid TV and therefore has fewer viewers. That said, no doubt when another series such as the 2005 Ashes comes along more stars will be created.
I get my awareness of how well known someone is from Pointless. People don't really know anything about cricket these days.
I remember test matches being the background hum to summer holidays at a similar age then going over to the field and playing out the memorable moments or trying to bowl as fast as I possibly could (not very, which is why I became a spin bowler
I don't particularly care to watch, prefer to just listen to test match special.
I was disagreeing with the wider point about stars from different sports. Snooker is still on free TV, but isn't as popular. My view of that is that the game has not evolved in the way that it did in the past, so it is dominated by older, more experienced players which basically makes it less interesting. There is nothing the governing bodies can do about that. It is simply the evolution of sport.
I think tennis has become boring too.
Cricket traded viewers for short term cash in 2005. It was something that was pointed out at the time, and something that is being questioned at the moment. I'm not convinced that it is about changing times though.
I agree, dreadful for the sport in the long term. It's been discussed in the news for the last few years, fewer kids watching and taking up the sport, declining viewing figures in general. The problem is that spurs them on to censored about with shorter game formats and things rather than address the real issue. I haven't watched a game since 2005 when I was 14, a shorter game still isn't going to make me pay for a sports channel to watch it...
But I wouldn't watch cricket anyway.
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My only gripe is that I'm guessing contractually the BBC is only allowed thirty second clips for wickets etc and so Cook's ovation for his hundred that lasted nearly two minutes wasn't available in full.