tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post1425806051711257668..comments2024-03-27T03:46:20.901-06:00Comments on Thirty letters in my name: Chance masquerading as skill: A personal take on T20 CricketHarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12339987786745985294noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-92038591649244764162010-04-27T10:59:45.618-06:002010-04-27T10:59:45.618-06:00Dice Chess sounds like fun! It is sort of reserch ...Dice Chess sounds like fun! It is sort of reserch and perhaps you can market the game! I always had imaginary friends and I would even have arguments with them and not want to be friends anymore! Once playing with weeble people in weeble town I totally was so inside my head that I was not looking at the weebles in my hands but totally imagining them as characters in my head...so much it felt like some sort of out of body experience. I think kids can be very imagination driven with time to themselves to develop that will power to self entertain! My brothers got bored before me, so often playing alone was more fun. Plus they just wanted to throw things at me, baseballs, basketballs....what is it with guys and ball toys! I may have to try out dice Chess...regular chess and waiting on others to take a turn gets dull...it is to slow sometimes for me. Dice Chess....two thumbs up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-10497439148132147032010-04-26T11:50:11.081-06:002010-04-26T11:50:11.081-06:00it's good to see this information in your post...it's good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource, thanx now i have the link which i was looking for my research.Accounting Dissertation Helphttp://www.mastersdissertation.co.uk/dissertation_articles/accounting_dissertation.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-52503939260631954492010-04-25T16:22:03.943-06:002010-04-25T16:22:03.943-06:00broadcast sport is about entertainment and not ski...broadcast sport is about entertainment and not skill, and T20 is easily the most entertaining form of cricket. appeals to the lowest common denominator and that's why it can be construed as low-brow. heck it makes non-enthusiasts like me sit up and watch. it may not generate tendulkar, but it will create a slew of pollards.zaphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08867058181626652463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-66593122661730493592010-04-25T15:47:18.569-06:002010-04-25T15:47:18.569-06:00I've been thinking about it. Basically, you ne...I've been thinking about it. Basically, you need an even contest between bat and ball, without giving artificial crutches to either bowler or batsman. The latter is the hard part.<br /><br />Of the 20 overs, have a 5 over "powerplay" in which no runs may be scored, but in which wickets have to be defended. You could also have 5 overs of batting powerplay which is like the ODI batting powerplay in place today. The other 10 could be normal overs.Kartikeya Datehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03512491310629949028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-56912981780687282522010-04-23T21:13:59.341-06:002010-04-23T21:13:59.341-06:00Great points, Kartikeya. Especially this bit: “The...Great points, Kartikeya. Especially this bit: “The question is whether T20 can generate skills so that there might actually someday be a Tendulkar produced in T20 cricket." I don't think so either. Do you, however, see other ways of designing a 20 over game that might be more meaningful? Or does the length make it impossible?Harihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339987786745985294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14626538.post-79918320546812049962010-04-22T16:03:38.797-06:002010-04-22T16:03:38.797-06:00I think skill is successful in the same way that i...I think skill is successful in the same way that if you pit a reasonably good 12th grader with a reasonably good 8th grader in a mathematics exam, the 12th grader is more likely to do well.<br /><br />The question is whether T20 can generate skills so that there might actually someday by a Tendulkar produced in T20 cricket. I don't think it can, precisely because it is chance masquerading as skill. Tendulkar is Tendulkar because of Test Cricket.<br /><br />But there's a deeper more pernicious aspect to T20 - and that is this generation of fake excitement because everybody is taking chances. The point is that these are not really "chances" as such because the stakes are low and the downside to failing is minimal. So players are not really taking a big risk - they're just being more reckless. It devalues the slog as I have argued before.<br /><br />Whats happening now I think is that T20 is mature and certain predictable patterns are emerging, as they inevitably must in what is essentially a race against the clock. You can't have a rich episodic contest under such constraints.Kartikeya Datehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03512491310629949028noreply@blogger.com