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So true! 'Shear Magic': no. 'Curl Up and Dye': no. No no no.
Cut Above. Hair 'n' Now. And so on.
I like this local chain's bad case of pun failure.
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Rather aptly we had met them after we had just interviewed a rather ingenious man over a Yeastie Boys' ale we purchased solely for the name.
¿ Because it reminds you of the Beastie Boys or the Yeastie Girlz [NSFW] ?
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I'd have preferred if, for a 20 over match, only 5 batsmen were allowed.
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Look, I get your point that most of the time an innings will require fewer that 11 batsmen. That's fine. I just feel that the game is too short.
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Yours is an arbitrary number without any basis in reality - it's just not how cricket works.
I said "the average batsman is expected to face only 11 deliveries." You may say that that is how cricket works (you'll notice that I have already agreed with that), nevertheless it is true.
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That's assuming not only that you're always going to be bowled out on the last ball of the innings...
Not so. It still holds with only 9 down.
... but that you're going to lose your batsmen at regular intervals.
That's true, of course, but that's what an average does. I'm not saying that this is how it is likely to play out (it isn't), but it's still a valid statistic which is, at least IMO, an interesting observation.
If anything the multiple formats are a strength of cricket, in that they broaden the appeal of the game.
I suppose so, if each format survives. Personally, I'd be horrified if T20 supplanted ODIs.
I really don't understand all this hostility for 20/20.
I just think that the attack / defend balance is way out of whack; that's my main complaint.
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or "fewer", I should say.
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On second thoughts, it a lot less than the top order of a baseball team.
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Let me just say that I love ODI cricket, like Test cricket, and really dislike Twenty20.
Any game where the average batsman is expected to face only 11 deliveries* does not deserve to be called cricket. That's only 2 more than the top order of a baseball team, fer Chrissakes.
*(20 x 6) / 11 = 10.9