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| Posted by dlengel on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 08:56 |
 It’s Game Seven of the World Series. The summer is most definitely over — it’s a chilly eight degrees Celsius and rain is in the forecast. Every seat in Chicago’s Comisky Park is filled, and television viewers around the globe are tuned in to one of the most exciting duals in the history of the sport. Just nine innings separate the winners and losers of the Fall Classic. All pitchers for the White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are available — they’ll have all winter to rest their tired and abused arms.
It’s two all in the second inning when the rain starts to fall. The players retreat to their clubhouses as water soaks the outfield. After two days of rain, Commissioner Bud Selig decides he has no choice but to end the World Series in a draw. It’s a sad moment, but there’s always next year.
You can imagine the response of the players, fans, advertisers, television broadcasters, and everyone else involved in baseball. They’re not happy. After 162 games and three rounds of playoffs, there is no champion. One word describes the Commissioner’s call. Pathetic.
It’s a beautiful day in London. There are no seats available for the first day of the fifth and final test match between England and Australia. The winner will lay claim to The Ashes, a prize the English have been denied since 1987. Ask any fan of cricket who the best test sides are and the quick response will undoubtedly be England and Australia. The Poms have waited two years for their latest crack at winning back the bragging rights. The English lead the series 2-1, with the third match ending in a draw. With no test cricket world cup tournament to determine a true champion, this is as close as it gets to crowning one. Anyone with any interest in cricket is watching this match with unrivalled intensity as these two cricketing institutions wage war against one another, one last time before winter creeps in. The frenzy surrounding the series is so great that thousands of people who didn’t know a thing about stumps, sixes, and spin bowlers before the Aussies landed at Heathrow Airport, can not get enough. Cricket fans are getting a taste of baseball’s Game Seven drama.
The rain comes and there are substantial delays. By Monday the two teams get in a full day, but by then there is no chance of a result. With a draw, England has won back The Ashes. There are celebrations, but deep down in the hearts of England supporters, the truth causes a large lump in their collective throats.
Sure they won the series, but it wasn’t completely decided by the players. The weather patterns sitting over southeast London and in the northwest of England during the third test match – which also ended in a draw, played a large factor in the result. Yes, draws are part of cricket. If two teams play each other so evenly that a result is impossible to determine, then it is the right result.
Such are the circumstances surrounding this final test match that anything less a win, loss, or hard fought draw is unacceptable. These are the premier fixtures of cricket. This one single match has more riding on it than any other in recent memory. If it rains, it rains. Open the doors on Tuesday, Wednesday, even Thursday until every scheduled over is played. No excuses. I don’t want to hear about what is impossible, about “that’s just the way it is.” I’m not interested in what the octogenarian crew at the MCC feel is unacceptable. Would it be a complex, revolutionary move to extend the match until its full conclusion? No question. But it is one which would resonate with old, and more importantly, new fans of cricket for years to come. It would be the icing on the cake for a sport which has enjoyed a renaissance in popularity. If indeed it does rain, the cricket authorities should surprise us, shake the dust off their sport, and declare game on.
Then again, it may not rain at all.
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Re: We Interrupt This Baseball Website to Bring You...Cricket
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by Ubiquitous on Sep 08, 2005 - 10:40
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I don't know Dave ... you shrug off the argument 'it's just not cricket' in your comment but the fact is that Test cricket is played over five days, always has done and always will do. If the game was being designed today I am sure they would play all games to a finish - but cricket is an old fashioned game with old fashioned rules, and as this Ashes series has demonstrated, Cricket is in the best shape that it has been for years in this country with national team success and 20/20 action bringing in new generations of fans.
Maybe Baseball could learn a thing or two from Cricket, particually with the matter of drugs. Shane Warne, a global cricketing superstar, was suspended for a year for taking recreational drugs. Yet in baseball we have seen the shambles of when stars like Palmerio are caught cheating but not punished to the extent that the fans demand. Maybe Cricket's rules are old fashioned when it comes to the ageless matter of time, but when it comes to the modern problem of steroid abuse, Cricket has shrugged off its old fashioned image and become a role model for many other sports.
Keep Sunday Night Baseball alive on five!
Gareth.
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Re: We Interrupt This Baseball Website to Bring You...Cricket
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by Anonymous on Sep 09, 2005 - 07:54
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Mr Lengel,
While I fully applaud your calls to make this 5th and final Test a so called "timeless" test where they play until a result is gained, and I can also see your point that weather should have nothing to do with the results of sporting events, save for the conditions they are played in, however I assure you after waiting since 1987 to finally give the Aussies a good pasting there will be NO Englishman in the land that will have anything remotely resembling regret in their minds as Michael Vaughn holds the little urn aloft!!
And again all though you are correct that Australia are currently (JUST) on top in the match, I have to point to the fact that the rain that fell in by beloved Manchester actually saved the Aussies in the 3rd test so they cannot and I hope will not have cause to feel hard done by....
So David, although the lack of ties and dull 0-0 draws is part of the reason why I love to watch American sporting events and baseball in particular, please do not try to rob us of this glorious achievement by our cricketers, because it just means too much to us!
If the Mets were to get to the World series and win the game in the bottom of the ninth due to an error by Derek Jeter caused by some standing water around the second basepad, I don't imagine for a second you would have any form of complaints for the afore mentioned weather and as we all know you have very little sympathy for Derek the Overrated as is!
Come on Freddy and the boys, rain or no rain lets have the little urn back at Lords for the next 2 years! BARMY ARMY!!!
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by stevenreid on Sep 11, 2005 - 05:01
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Draw ? Tie ? What will these crazy Brits think up next? Get the flood lights on when it gets dark and play three innings each if the scores or tied after two!! Introduce a bowler from each end simultaneously every over and still expect both batsmen to run every time the ball is hit, even if it is for a four or six, just add them on to the total. Introduce a joker system where by your chosen player scores quadruple points for every run scored, don't expect your bowlers to play in the field make them bowling specialists (oops sorry England are actually doing that), and don't start me on that fancy soccerball thing!!!!!
Come on Dave you hate the DH, you think Inter league play goes against the tradition of baseball, so don't expect us to buy this change the rules rubbish.As you know these rules and traditions make sports what they are.
Anyway good job, I'm Scottish, (supporting England though) and you still succeeded in winding me up. And tell the Aussies to stop being scared of the dark if they want win.
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by chemic_al on Sep 11, 2005 - 06:34
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I think you're also forgetting that the 5 test matches are played whether the 4th or 5th have any bearing on the Series.
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by dezmaas on Sep 11, 2005 - 10:04
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I totally agree with David. It is ridiculous that one team can win a test series partly because of the weather. The sight of all those England fans cheering for rain makes me sick. Also, they paid a lot of money for tickets yet they would rather sit under their umbrellas and wait until time is up and the ashes is won for their team. Pathetic.
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by Woody000 on Sep 12, 2005 - 12:42
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I have mixed feelings. The idea of playing out the scheduled overs might have merit, (though it goes against a LONGSTANDING, if not eternal, tradition) but just continuing till someone wins certainly doesn't.
In the past, when the rules allowed them to continue, matches could go on for 8, 9 days at times. Wouldn't that be kinda... dangerous? A test match is an extremely strenuous thing when it's 5 days, but 9? Not to mention the fact that at times (in the last 5 years at least) there has been talk of burn out problems due to the large amount of cricket being played, that would increase these problems, even if 9 days would be possible.
It would also mean serious changes in scheduling. They'd have to only have the summer test matches every two weeks, no more back-to-back tests, so it'd add a week or two to the series.
It would remove the idea of a declaration from the game. That to me is an important tactical part of the game. The last time the Aussies were here, the forth test, they declared in their 2nd innings, to dangle the carrot just enough that when England came out to bat, they'd play some shots... then England batting on the final day, they gave a great performance and won it. That was drama! And that wouldn't have been possible if there wasn't a time limit.
I DO think that light delays are a loud of rubbish. With two spinners bowling even a novice like myself wouldn't be in any danger, you should never have to come off for bad light. But making up for rain delays? That I'm not sure about.
If they played the full number of overs, over however many days it took, there would only be a problem with scheduling, logistics. That might be possible, and I wouldn't complain if they did.
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by Zed on Sep 13, 2005 - 01:31
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As pointed out earlier, for such a baseball traditionalist, you show precious little empathy for how cricket has evolved into its known and loved beast! Weather is a key part of the mix in Test Cricket and provides an extra tactical edge in the decision making. Why would anyone want to watch a match reach its full conclusion if sides bat their first innings for days on end on a flat pitch so that they can put the game out of reach? A nonsensical suggestion Mr.Lengel!
By the way, I've just finished watching off tape my beloved Tribe pasting the Twins on Sunday evening. I have to confess that I tried watching last Wednesday's match on Channel 425 but found it unbearable. The lack of chemistry (yep, Jonny & Dave's dangerous & explosive chemistry!), insight, emotion and wardrobe skills made it as dull as ditchwater compared to C5's coverage.
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by galraen on Sep 13, 2005 - 03:21
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I wonder if Dave's got it yet? If he's been in London for the last couple of days maybe by now he's realised that the way we play cricket has it's own, unique way of creating tension and excitement.
He'll be suggesting we use fielding aids like baseball as well next, Jiminy Cricket, even Pieterson could make catches if he had an outfielder's bucket on his hand, not to mention Shane Warne and Tate!
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by aristotle on Sep 13, 2005 - 05:15
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There used to be timeless Tests in cricket, but they were abandoned in the 1930s (I think). on one occasion a Test in South Africa against England had to be abandoned as a draw as England had to catch the boat home. The logistical problems would still be a problem now with a packed international schedule.
If the game seven you talked about was hit by rain in the sixth, the result at that stage would stand. That to me doesn't seem fair.
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by stix on Sep 22, 2005 - 03:39
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Sorry Dave
I love Baseball & don't like cricket but your real problem here is also an American problem that being your none acceptance of draws (or ties as you say) in sport.
The whole world (bar one or 2 countries) play football (soccer) and are used to results ending in a draw. Thousands of football games played at all levels, by people of all ages and genders, on every continent end in draws almost every day of the week. Most of the world have grown up watching & playing in games that ended in draws. We have knockout competitions at all levels that require a winner / loser.
And back to Cricket the game does have one day games (England has at least 2 competitions) were a result is essential even if the weather is bad they'll have a winner by higher run rate etc etc
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by Gooders on Jul 23, 2006 - 01:56
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If you knew the slightest thing about cricket you'd know that playing rain affected games to their conclusion is just not possible. With the way the fixture list is packed at the moment players have a job on to play all the games as it is, as for what an extended disruption to a game would do to the players and how it would affect that individual game as well, don't get me started.
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