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Cricket World Cup
My last comments on the World Cup:
Too many minnows - although it was nice to see them, they'd be better served doing tours of the test-playing nations than being thrashed in the World Cup (except for Ireland!). Or perhaps a "second division", including such cricket-loving countries as Argentina, Fiji, Hong Kong, Namibia, USA et al.
Too many games - waaay too many. Let's sort this problem out once and for all.
Too confusing - who understood the super-8s? Not too damn many of us, that's for sure.
Too deathly quiet - if locals can't afford to go to the games, what's the point? Reminiscent of the '88 Seoul Olympics.
The response to the World Cup here in Australia perhaps best summarises the attitude to it all - massive, yawning indifference. Not because it was a boringly predictable result (especially after comprehensive losses to England and New Zealand, no-one was that confident!) - but because it was such a boring tournament. To give you an idea, the lead stories in the news centred around the rallies in Turkey, local politics and Iraq. The World Cup victory scored just ahead of local football news.
Still, it's a nice trophy.
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