Tripping on Broken Wings (Cricket)

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone is doing okay.

My post today is all about cricket that's happening currently around the world.

Firstly, the poor showing by West Indies cricket team in the test match today against India, reminds me time and again that I've made an excellent decision to give up supporting West Indies cricket since April 2007.
This occasion was Brian Lara retiring and the conclusion of the shambles of hosting the 2007 cricket world Cup by the West Indies.
When I first started seriously following cricket in 1996, I've always thought that Brian Lara would be the one to turn things around for the team, but years of mediocre performances for enough flashes of brilliance for him to be regarded as a genius.
And to top it off, there were always questionable decisions he made as Captain.
Don't get me wrong, when he was playing I was a staunch supporter of him and what he did.
And I will always hold up the 2001 series West Indies vs Sri Lanka when he scored 688 runs in three test matches with 3 centuries and one fifty in six innings. This I consider to be his greatest test series where he really showed what he is capable of achieving. And this was done on foreign soil and not on the typical road of the Antigua Recreation Ground where he scored his two records 375 and 400.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=457;type=series

Supporting the Australian Cricket Team since 2007, while there have been heartbreaking losses over the years, it has been far more ups than downs, more wins than losses and more memorable times than forgettable times.

I'm excited for the series in Sri Lanka coming up against Australia! Wondering and hoping I get to see some, with the time difference and all and not being shown on TV, I'll have to watch it online.

Pakistan vs England, in England, the series going on at the moment, is going so similar to the West Indies vs India test match, that I don't know what to make of it.
Intriguingly, since Pakistan won the first match at the Lord's Cricket Ground so comfortably, it could either be a one off miracle or the sign of a great test series.
But Pakistan are definitely up against it.

Finally, the Caribbean Premier League, a decent enough league, but I am heavily disappointed by three things,
1) the actual lighting at the grounds are poor, no other night cricket matches in the rest of the world is so poor. Parts of the field shouldn't be dark, the entire viewing experience is in shambles when that happens. Not to mention the safety of the players, Mitchell Starc almost got hit when he lost the ball in the lights, which should've never happened.
2) the inconsistent scheduling of matches and the breaks between the matches causes viewership to fluctuate unless the schedule is stuck in someone's brain, sheesh, a simple schedule makes life much easier for everyone.
3) the weird times to start each match every day, 6, 7, 8, 9, what on earth?
And showing a match delayed is pointless. Totally pointless. Especially when it's only an hour delay, everyone wants to see it live. Gosh.

Anyway, that's my wrap on cricket currently,

Be safe everyone!

Hope to pick up next time.

And if the blog post today didn't interest you, here's am adorable picture of two huskies.

I want a Husky soooooo badly!



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