Tuesday, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:41
Ok Truckie, I'll argue with you one last time,... only because I can't stand people so bloody minded about something.
so.. yes I saw that score, I saw the match infact, ..because as I am a cricket fan, I watch cricket played between ALL nations and not just my own. Now you can argue that cricket is unhealthy, but, I can look at it from this angle, Sri Lanka played incredibly
well, not only did their bowlers bowl NZ out for a woeful score, but their batsman Jayasuriya hit the kiwi bowlers all over the park in his great innings of 70 off 44 balls, which was fantastic to watch, and I might add that the Kiwi bowlers weren't that bad, looks like a very good bowler, and Detori didn't play due to illness. It will be interesting to see who wins the deciding game today, Sri Lanka had to win to stay to have a chance of winning the series, I would argue that despite NZ's lacklustre score, for the other team to win to give them a chance of winning the series makes it pretty healthy.
Sth Africa have just cleaned up India, in their
Test Series, 3 - 0, of the 4 of the 5 ODI's played, Sth Africa have won all of them, it will be interesting to see how they perform at the World Cup in March.
Healthy to me, simply means that the game is being played, that people are watching, that kids want to play it. My own kids are now asking me about the rules of the game so they can understand it, not bad I reckon for a 7yr old girl and 5 yr old boy who previous to this year had no idea about the game, and can even name some of the players. All sport has highs and lows, as I said earlier I can remember when the Australian cricket team was not highly rated, and the English were stronger, As Gramps said things go in waves,.
I would rather watch the game of cricket, enjoy it for what it is, a great game of strategy than whinge and whine and carry on about a sport being unhealthy and not wanting to watch it coz you think you know the result. Eventhough a team may lose the match, or series, there can be individuals who shine and you can take your hat off to them. The English team came here thinking they were better than they were, and seemed ill prepared for the tour, or perhaps they were not aware of how bad the Australian team wanted to prove themselves. Whatever the reason, they met an opposition that were more determined and more hungry for victory than themselves. When listening to the ABC during the last
test match, Kerry O"keefe said "I wonder if England are thinking they can still win this" [after Australia went past their 1st inning score]. because In
Adelaide, Ricky and the boys never considered losing that test", Sport is healthy when people want to watch it, when kids want to play it, when teams like Sri Lanka produce batsman and bowlers who can knock out other teams, [and I'm
well aware of the controversy surrounding one of the bowlers in the Sri Lankan team!]. As I said, I'm looking forward to seeing how things unfold during the world cup, sure, there's a likelyhood of some teams winning by large margins, there are 16 nations playing, I'm not sure how the Scots will go, or the Dutch, but, just by being there helps raise the profile of the sport a little further in their nation, and if they get a win, fantastic, and I"m not that arrogant to think that it's a cut and dried world cup victory for Australia either. If everyone gave up just because they thought they didn't have a chance at something what a sorry lot we'd be.
Now I realise that my opinion is probably worth nothing, and being female I probably know nothing, but that's my stand. You want to disagree, that's cool, but I'm sure that this isn't the place for it.
apologies to Ray, Gramps and Tia Marie who've been caught up in this.
cheers
Lyn
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