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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 726166" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>That test match, especially day 4, may well turn out to be the watershed moment where I started falling back in love with English cricket. Having been a fanatic all my life, my love for cricket has taken a serious battering over the last couple of years, in large part related to this England omnishambles at the Ashes and since then - but over the course of that test I've come back to being the England supporter who follows the score at work and who feels the emotions when a wicket goes or someone reaches their ton.</p><p></p><p>Cook getting a slow, controlled, inevitable-feeling big ton again, young talents taking the game by the scruff of the neck, a century that will go down in history, a lightening quick youngster with a weird action, most importantly a whole team taking a battering twice (once batting, once bowling) and coming back from both to get back on top - the right attitude, the right skill, the right belief, and the right decisions. Everything to love abotu English cricket during its best years was there again. Even if we hadn't won the game, those qualities all combined made me really, really happy about cricket for the first time in a long time. It wasn't about whether England won, per se, but it was about the fact that I <em>cared</em> whether England won - when we lost to Bangladesh in the WC I didn't' see the game, but when I saw the result I was shocked to discover that I genuinely didn't give a toss, and it worried me that I'd lost that part of my life forever. Now I'm back, so when it all goes to ****, it'll actually hurt.</p><p></p><p>What with Bath's epic win as well, it was quite the sporting weekend for me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 726166, member: 71826"] That test match, especially day 4, may well turn out to be the watershed moment where I started falling back in love with English cricket. Having been a fanatic all my life, my love for cricket has taken a serious battering over the last couple of years, in large part related to this England omnishambles at the Ashes and since then - but over the course of that test I've come back to being the England supporter who follows the score at work and who feels the emotions when a wicket goes or someone reaches their ton. Cook getting a slow, controlled, inevitable-feeling big ton again, young talents taking the game by the scruff of the neck, a century that will go down in history, a lightening quick youngster with a weird action, most importantly a whole team taking a battering twice (once batting, once bowling) and coming back from both to get back on top - the right attitude, the right skill, the right belief, and the right decisions. Everything to love abotu English cricket during its best years was there again. Even if we hadn't won the game, those qualities all combined made me really, really happy about cricket for the first time in a long time. It wasn't about whether England won, per se, but it was about the fact that I [I]cared[/I] whether England won - when we lost to Bangladesh in the WC I didn't' see the game, but when I saw the result I was shocked to discover that I genuinely didn't give a toss, and it worried me that I'd lost that part of my life forever. Now I'm back, so when it all goes to ****, it'll actually hurt. What with Bath's epic win as well, it was quite the sporting weekend for me! [/QUOTE]
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