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Well, I like cricket, and so I'm perfectly fine with it

>>Cricket and Football both displace all the good sci-fi on TV...

Oh yes. Swines. Cricket is so civilised you'd think they'd take a Trek break or a Stargate break?

Although, I prefer to watch cricket than footie, I don' mind both. And, until the end of the season, Yorkshire are the reigning county champions. So that's nice.

If cricketers didn't keep breaking for and , maybe they could get on with it and each game wouldn't last for three weeks...

I notice no one has managed to come up with a justification for this tedious pastime.

It doesn't need one mate.

If you like it, watch it. If you really like it, play it.

If you don't like it, don't watch it.

Nuff said.

I don't like it and I don't want to watch it. I *do* want to watch the programmes it displaces on terrestrial TV. 'Nuff said?

I like cricket, and it needs less justification (IMO) than

I like cricket, and it needs less justification (IMO) than

Why do you need to justify it in the first place?

I've never played, watched or had any desire to watch cricket. It always struck me as being a little too slow-paced (this is not a flame on those of you who enjoy it, etc etc, no offense meant). But one of our teachers assures us that it's actually quite a hard-core sport, when played without padding, helmets etc. This didn't quite fit with my mental image of it. Is it true? Are all cricketers really hard as nails? Or was he having us on?

Isn't the idea of justifying a sport a little, well, lame? Taken to its extremes, we should all really just gather food and reproduce to perpetuate the species all day.

It would certainly make better television...

...and no doubt it'd be easier to find pundits. Step up Alan Hanson!

Are cricketers hard as nails.

Tell you what, you stand there, with a bit of wood about nine inches across, and nothing other than skill and concentration.

I'll get this bloke Shoaib Akthar aka The Rawalpindi Rocket to chuck a piece of hardened cork and leather at you at 100 kph.

Fancy the challenge?

And I would have thought that taking Star Trek and Star Gate off the airwaves was the first a foremost civilising thing the game did.

the headline tomorrow is going to be "Girl bites shark" (ok, woman)

sheesh, the thought of no Stargate on tv? Makes me glad I have every episode on vid (yep, I'm that sad) but I'll be checking the results in between tapes.

the thought of them being on TV often makes me want to tape hours of cricket to watch though!

100kph? I think you mean 100mph, ie 160kph.

And if you think cricket is slow, try baseball. Now, don't get me wrong, I like baseball, but let's do a comparison. In a one-day cricket international (about eight hours play) you might see anything between 400 and 600+ runs made. In a major league baseball game (average three hours) you might see one run made.

And as for Stargate... no comment. Star Trek though, that's a different matter.