Is by anyway English county cricket superior to Indian domestic cricket?

Question

I would say no. the glaring reasons are take the cases of Grame Hick, Ronnie Irani , Mark Ramprakash, and so many. The score 100 100's and perform very poorly when it comes to international cricket. Take the case of Hamish Marshall a middle order bat from Newzeland he was struggling last season averaging less than 15, went to county , scored heaps of runs there and came back to the ICC champions trophy to make single digit scores again. So no talent or real competition i see in the English county. whereas India's Duleep trophy tournament can match even the Australian Domestic cricket. Your thoughts please

Answer 1

Standard is certainly better. In India, the so called stars skip these domestic matches. If you see a domestic match, the umpiring standard is ridiculous. See, there is no umpire from India in the elite panel. Regarding failure of county stars, it is the surface and conditions they play. An Indian player going there gets used to playing in deifferent conditions there and helps improve his game.

Answer 2

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....English county cricket is 10000 times better than Indian domestic cricket. You knwo why? Its professional meaning that "A player will definitely turn out for a county even if he is a fixture in the national side"...Meaning :- Flintoff, Vaughn, Harmison, Pietersen..All of them will not avoid playign for their counties on one pretext or the other. The Indian superstars like Sachin, Saurav, Zaheer and Dravid play domestic cricket in india only if their place in the national side is in doubt. Further, players are assured of fair pay meaning that they have the right to choose who to play for based off of how much they earn. Then comes the aspect of pleasing crowds. County cricket and offlate first division cricket and even twent twenty crickt is a crowd puller. Are Indian domestic games played to please crowds? No...All these factors together make county cricket better than the indian domestci cricket...So is there a relationship between performances in domestic cricket and international cricket? Yes..but not a direct one and doesnt have to depend where you play it either...There can be mental issues, issues with attitude which have no connection to cricket in the first place and ofcourse mental agility to adapt perfectly to life at the top-end!...Hamish Marshall is a good player..He is going through a bad patch..Who knows when he will click..Did he tell you that he is going to suck for the rest of the season? Andby teh way, the black-caps got a raw deal...They have played no test matches in 4 months...Consider that before judging Hamish's form...And again Stephen Fleming had a horrible season or two back in the early nineties and he is a product of county cricket too...Graeme Hick, Ronnie and Ramps have confidence issues...That doesnt make them bad..It makes them slow learners...If somebody is slow to learn and adapt, they CANNOT fault the system in place...Why dont you take a look at Alistair Cook, Jon Lewis, Kevin Pietersen, Dinesh Mongia, Monty Panesar,Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell all of whom performed and took great lessons from county cricket!

Answer 3

No

The Standard of Game is High in County Cricket.

Indian Domestic Cricket is players are all juniors only u can see few Senior Players.

But in County Cricket. the players are from all the countries.

Answer 4

ya english county is far superior then indian domestic cricket because the technology and the grounds the infrastructure they have is the best and indian cricket council is more in earning for themselves then working for the players sooo in india is behind due to politics it has not got technology and infrastructure which the english county players a provided. moreover they can improve if they r provided good infrastrusture and if there is less politics

Answer 5

The overall standard of Indian version of the English county cricket is probably no different. The only difference, and I am only guessing here, I think the Indians are keener and therefore take it more seriously.

Answer 6

Sorry, I beg to disagree with you as I feel that England County games are much better than Indis domestic matches.

Answer 7

there is no superior cricket or inferior cricket,cricket is the internationally accepted game which has some rules which implies to all the players who play the game and does not change depending on the nationality. when we come to the performance f the players it depends on there practise,concentration,pitch condition and also the climate. when other country team comes to our nation they may not adjust with the climate here and may fail to perform well. that's it.

Answer 8

Which one pays better? Thats where all the stars will go to in the off season and therefore that is where the higher standard will be (at least on average anyway).

Answer 9

overall, yes because all top-class English cricketers (though there only a few) and quite a few international cricketers of repute take part - and the infrastructure / organization is lot more mature and professional ...

Answer 10

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