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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @astro_penguin 25 Nov \ on: CricZap Cricket Today — Daily Discussion Thread Stacker_Sports
England women still looked a little shaky at times against South Africa, but hopefully the win helps with getting their confidence back. At least they have the benefit of Kapp and Khaka being rested for the series.
Impressive! You take quite a keen interest in women's cricket.
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Yeah, I guess I'm in the smaller group of fans that enjoy both games pretty much equally. My first major cricket exposure other than highlights was the free streams of the Hundred tournament, so I've been a bit of a England fan because of that!
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Great! Are you from England? I also love the Hundred for it's improvisation with the overs and other rules
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No, actually from the USA. So I've been watching the matches of both countries as time permits! I'll watch whatever interests me as well, I've been watching some of the Abu Dhabi T10 recently.
I can understand some of the negativity about the Hundred, but as you said, it's definitely an interesting take on the game. I may be a bit biased due to it being my introduction to the game though!
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I'm glad you're from America but having an in depth understanding of the gentlemen's game.
Abu Dhabi T10 is quite interesting but it sury isn't the future of Cricket. What they are actually trying by T10 is reducing the game time so as to match it with Soccer's. But, I see a T20 is much more fun than T10 for Cricket Isn't merely a game of aggressive batting.
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Yes, T10 tries too hard to be nonstop action. T20 is a lot of fun as I can watch an entire match in an evening, and I also like Test matches because of the bowling focus. In baseball I always prefer a close pitcher's duel over a high scoring game, so I think that carried over to cricket too. I usually can't watch the whole test match though, so I often watch segments of it and then the day's highlights.
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