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<blockquote data-quote="Hazey" data-source="post: 122035"><p>Results based on the improvement and development of the game - after all, you can get 400 runs, but you can only get 10 wickets.</p><p></p><p>Yes there are high scoring games, but there are also games where scores are low (as I pointed out in my last post). As for batsmen friendly wickets - I disagree. The number of early season wickets, or wickets that degenerate on day 3, 4 (or 5 in Test) far outnumber those that play like a carpet for the whole game (I use day 4 of the current Windies v. England test as my example for this).</p><p></p><p>As for heavier bats and bigger sweet spots; as I said, development in the game. A few years ago the MCC experimented with a ball that had a much smaller seam (it became known as 'The Year Of The Bat'/'The Year Of The Orange') but it was disregarded after there were 2 treble-centuries within a month of the season starting - bowler friendly attitude? I think not. As for the high-scores in both ODI and Tests, look at the records, yes some have been broken recently, but the previous records in many are 20 or 30 years old (for example, highest run chase in the 4th innings of a Test was 406 in 1971, before it was beaten in 2003).</p><p></p><p>As for boundries being brought in, etc. - this has a lot to do with the 'spectator' element of the sport. More runs, more exciting; smaller boundries, closer to the action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hazey, post: 122035"] Results based on the improvement and development of the game - after all, you can get 400 runs, but you can only get 10 wickets. Yes there are high scoring games, but there are also games where scores are low (as I pointed out in my last post). As for batsmen friendly wickets - I disagree. The number of early season wickets, or wickets that degenerate on day 3, 4 (or 5 in Test) far outnumber those that play like a carpet for the whole game (I use day 4 of the current Windies v. England test as my example for this). As for heavier bats and bigger sweet spots; as I said, development in the game. A few years ago the MCC experimented with a ball that had a much smaller seam (it became known as 'The Year Of The Bat'/'The Year Of The Orange') but it was disregarded after there were 2 treble-centuries within a month of the season starting - bowler friendly attitude? I think not. As for the high-scores in both ODI and Tests, look at the records, yes some have been broken recently, but the previous records in many are 20 or 30 years old (for example, highest run chase in the 4th innings of a Test was 406 in 1971, before it was beaten in 2003). As for boundries being brought in, etc. - this has a lot to do with the 'spectator' element of the sport. More runs, more exciting; smaller boundries, closer to the action. [/QUOTE]
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