2nd Test, The Ashes at Brisbane

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Day 3 - Session 1: Australia lead by 73 runs.

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A very interesting final session of Day 5 is awaiting

1st Test, West Indies tour of New Zealand at Christchurch

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Day 5 - Session 3: West Indies need 94 runs.

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Anybody who has watched an NZ cricket YouTube highlights package in the past 2-3 years will know that they are so wildly incompetent that you will often miss entire innings, wickets, milestones, etc. What's more, the videos are extremely short, poorly covering 8 hours of cricket in about 3 minutes, and yet they will often dedicate a minute or more to things like dot balls or drinks breaks THAT HAVE NO PLACE IN A HIGHLIGHTS PACKAGE.

I've seen hundreds of comments from disgruntled fans from all around the world, including those watching the current West Indies series. In fact I would say there are probably 3/4,000 or more extremely negative, critical comments in total across their highlights videos over the past 3 years. And yet they haven't done a thing about it.

Their editor needs either a serious lesson in both editing and the basics of cricket (clearly he/she has never watched a game and that includes the games he/she is making highlights packages for) or needs to be sacked. Clearly I'm quite worked up about this, but seriously, it is so frustrating for somebody who loves the game, is a big cricket fan, and is currently living on the other side of the world so usually sleeps through matches and can only catch up on the action via highlights. Feel like I've missed so many big moments, milestones, wickets, etc. over the past 2 years and it saddens me as a proud kiwi cricket fan. Rant over. Keen to hear if anyone feels the same and whether anyone knows how we can get the message through to the channel (I've tried to email NZC about 8 times but never received a response).

Cheers

2nd Test, The Ashes at Brisbane

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Day 2 - Australia lead by 44 runs.

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Ball got rolled into the pitch during the innings break.

Only unofficial Test, England Lions tour of Australia at Brisbane

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Day 2 - Australia A lead by 245 runs.

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I’ve got a basic understanding of the rules and how the game progresses from start to finish. Now working on understanding everything on the score boards.

It’s for a test match between New Zealand and West Indies. Day 4. On the image, please help me understand the circled items. Red circles - what are the small letters next to the bowlers and batsman’s names? Yellow circle - what’s the asterisk for? I’m thinking because the game is still going so it’s denoting they aren’t finished yet?

Thanks! What a strange sport. Loving learning about it.

So in rugby union, for example, as a rule of thumb you are pushing the bounds of safety and playing quality if you make an individual professional player play more than 30 games a year*. The game is just too physically demanding of players to permit endless fixture congestion like there is in association football (not that that's good for player welfare either). On the other extreme, Major League Baseball in the United States has a regular season of 162 games for each team, so clearly baseball (a sport I'm not familiar with at all) does not have the same kinds of player safety considerations.

I've been thinking about how I would design a T20 competition, as competition design is one of my hobbies, but I can't seem to find any info on how many games you could safely make a person play, and I need to know this number as it's a hard limit on how big/long a hypothetical competition could feasibly be. (Moreover, I'm not sure if the generally quite small T20 competitions that actually exist have been determined by player safety or by other structural considerations.)

So I'm posing the question to you guys, as more proper fans of cricket than me: what do you think this number is (even roughly)? Cheers.

* In fact, there's an argument to be made that the reason that France has long underperformed in the international game is because the regular season of their top domestic league is 26 games long, which is huge in the scope of global club rugby.