How much do i enjoy cricket?

About as much as i enjoy constipation

The viewing figures on Channel 4 today must be massive.

Next doors dad and son spend most of their time chucking a ball around at a net, looks like netball for boys. Now that ain't sport?

Most sport is for the "must have it now" mindset. For many a two hour sporting event is optimal given other demands on their time. Hence the popularity of football, rugby, tennis, athletics etc etc - all of which is accompanied by media glitz and special effects designed to maximise income.

The 20:20 cricket experience falls to engage me - it is like other sports. Over in a few hours, not remotely subtle, just crash bang wallop.

The 50 over game lasting a day gives scope for judgement, tactics, weather impacts, pitch condition, balancing runs scored against wickets lost etc. I can't think of another team sport that does all this. There are a few of similar duration - eg: golf masters, snooker etc but they are not team games with all the other tactical variables.

So I enjoyed the final today but understand the unretired will find it difficult to make the time for more than a few hours entertainment.

Well Leif and Badbusdriver.....if you didn't find the Cricket World Cup Final today totally rivetting......Then I would check your respective pulses!!!

Fair enough, according to my watch my resting pulse is 36 bpm. Rather than watch cricket, I picked cherries, made jam, skated, and annoyed the neighbours by shooting pucks into a net. I admit I do like the sound of a village cricket match, but not to watch.

.....if you didn't find the Cricket World Cup Final today totally rivetting......

I agree it was a fascinating game, tho I didn't waste most of a day glued to the telly, I watched in short bursts. Glad the lads won, but I can't help thinking they didn't really deserve to, and the Kiwis certainly didn't deserve to lose, with the fluky 6 and then 4 more fluky overthrows soon after. Strange coincidence that while the super-over was being played at Lord's, Djokovic was just managing to beat Federer across the river.