Cricket Watching Anyone? Asia Cup: Sun 1.Aug.2004

Hello cricket fans out there,

I would like to watch IND vs SL Asia Cup Final this Sunday. If anybody has access to the game and wouldn't mind me joining, please let me know.

I will bring the beer

Thanks.

Cal

I checked the Sky listings last night and there are no Asia Cup games being shown only England v West Indies on C4.

Graham, thanks for checking. Its too bad they are not showing Asia cup. Oh well, I just have to live with cricinfo.com for now then. Thanks anyway.

Cal

Try Live Asia cup or http://www.sgstream.com. They normally show the matches as pay-per-view at $5 a game. So if you have DSL, it shouldnt be a problem.

cricket is like european golf , right?

only... somehow... less exciting? (if thats possible)

No, cricket is like baseball...

only... somehow... hundred times more exciting (speaking conservatively)

Ok, having actually witnessed both cricket and baseball played professionally in person, I can definitely say that both are equivalently exciting (or boring, as you prefer), of course assuming we're referring to one-day cricket matches. Can't speak for the test matches, but I suppose they're not much different, just longer...

I was never a cricket fan and always assumed that baseball would somehow be a lot less boring, but when I was in the states, I found baseball to be EVEN MORE BORING THAN CRICKET. They didn't get a single run in the whole match I watched!

Cricket is a game where you get hundreds of runs and rarely get someone out.
Baseball is a game where you constantly get people out but rarely make any runs.

Cricket is a game of numbers and statistics. Every time a ball is bowled, a hundred factors change in the equation. Things start building up from first ball and the game is not over until the last ball is bowled. That is what keeps you engaged in the game-- from first ball to last ball be it one-day game or 5-day game.

Like anything else, if you do not understand the game, then it could be the most boring thing. For those who do understand, it is so easy to keep you entertained for 5 days in a row-- Now that is LOT of entertainment in our short lives.