Test Cricket is Boring

[antongould]

Can England do it on what seems an amazing final day?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

looks like it antongould! Sri Lankla 60 for 8 with 30 overs to go ...

[antongould]

What's the weather like in Cardiff I wonder - you wouldn't get 3 overs in here!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

sunny

Broad now bowling

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well that is that Sri lanka all out for 82 i shall be watching the highlights on 5 tonight! and the football ...

[Panjandrum]

It sure is.

[aeolium]

A good day for Swan(n)s, you might say...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Test cricket is only boring for those with short attention spans, like Classic FM listeners (and possibly R3 Breakfast). They can watch one-day cricket. For those who like crass pop music, they can watch 20-20 cricket (where they will experience noise pollution every time an over ends, a 4 or a 6 is scored, or a wicket falls - an altogether dreadful experience).

[antongould]

I am a Breakfast listener and I love Test cricket!?

[scottycelt]

Yup ... it's about as exciting as trying to comprehend Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe while listening to a Brahms symphony on a rainy day in Tillietudlem ...

[PatrickOD]

Yup ... it's about as exciting as trying to comprehend Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe while listening to a Brahms symphony on a rainy day in Tillietudlem ...

No it isn't.

[Anna]

I absolutely love cricket, personally I find it terribly exciting. Unfortunately our Welsh weather kicked in but I'd rather listen to cricket commentary than anything else. I usually catch the highlights on 5.

[Mr Pee]

I'm with Robin Williams:-

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

I do find Test cricket the most tedious sport ever conceived, with the possible exception of golf. Days of mind-numbing boredom, and then the end result is determined by the weather. Why not wait until it stops raining and resume play, like they do at Wimbledon? Imagine if the Men's Singles Final just stopped every time it rained, with the winner being declared there and then. Ridiculous.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I am a Breakfast listener and I love Test cricket!?

So your thread title is an attempt to mislead?

[EdgeleyRob]

I find any form of cricket boring .