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Cricket Australia and the ICC have decided, in their infinite wisdom, to allow day/night Test cricket. What a sell-out! No, I don’t mean a sell-out of a game, but a sell-out of the game.
Just because some TV marketing guru with a ponytail and a cute way of spelling his name (my guess would be Siimon or Mykale or some such rot) thinks it is a good idea doesn’t make it so.
Wasn’t Channel Nine just bailed out by those who hold their debt? Wasn’t that because the Siimons and Mykales have no idea about programming and what might be good TV? Why on earth would anyone trust their judgement?
Why is everything in this world being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator? If you have the intelligence of a gnat and the attention span of a goldfish, the game has already been dumbed down and over-simplified for you. Go and watch tip and run, errr, Twenty 20.
What about those of us who have been loyal followers of the game since we were kids, in the days B.C. (before computers)?
What about those of us who love to follow the intrigue and machinations as the five days unfold?
What about those of us who have sat and watched on crappy little analogue TVs and put up with the ads and inane ramblings of commentators who we have always held in high regard, even if they had no idea what they were talking about?
What about those of us who have baked in the sun, and huddled under umbrellas while paying extortionate prices for food and drink, and will gladly continue to do so?
Where is our game? Where is my game?
Why should the grand old game be bastardised and suffer change for change’s sake, just because ‘the young folk’ can’t concentrate for more than three seconds? What about those of us, even in our declining years, who still can?
Enough is enough. Day/night Tests be damned.
Let those who can’t muster the will or patience to be captivated by the steady, inexorable flow of Test cricket go and watch the pantomime and concocted shrillness of Twenty 20.
Leave my Test cricket alone.
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