ian wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:32 am Didn't realise Americans played cricket so that is a huge upset.
I thought your boring sport that's just an excuse to drink for a few hours was baseball?
Good to know you guys have options on what boring sport to watch while drinking now.
(I'm not a fan of T20 myself, I prefer good old fashioned tests where you have 7 hours of drinking for a solid week to determine the winner)
Major League Baseball has a pitching clock now, which forces games to be as quick as a T20 game. It makes sense that Americans have globbed onto the bastardized, heavily marketed version of a sport rather than the original standard.The only American "sport" equal to test cricket would be car racing. NASCAR goes for hours, and local sprint car tracks can have a half-day schedule of racing. I hope test cricket can stand the test of time, it's always fascinated me.
