2010/11 Summer of Cricket

[Jiminee]

....and TV!
Lots of people jump on the 'grow the game' bandwagon but why do we need to? China is a chance I suppose but so many major sports have gone to extreme lengths to 'grow the game' and just suffered for it in the long run. Bill Simmons on ESPN had a good discussion about it last week - different sports but the idea was the same.
Eventually things just reach a point where you max out and its time to just accept it. Besides they are not trying to grow for the good of the game, it is just expansion for the sake of more money.

[Jiminee]

Just taken from Cricinfo:

If Bangladesh happen to win the final match, they will jump above West Indies on the ODI rankings.

Holy smokes!

[matticooper]

[Jiminee]

Is jump really the right word there though? Stumble? Skip? Fall? Crash down in a drunken stupor?

[matticooper]

For the Windies it would be stumble/fall/crash for Bangladesh it would got lucky/punching above their weight