Boundary dimensions of Oakland Coliseum
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Why don't they move the pitch down and to the left?
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49m boundary is a disgrace
That's behind the stumps so it's fine. Once it gets on the other side, it becomes ~69 or a bit more (don't want to use Pythagoras). Same with the other straight boundaries.
Similar to Eden Park. Far from ideal but not unique and Eden Park has hosted many, many international matches.
about as big asChinnaswamy baseball ground repurposed for cricket
I don't even know or care what cricket is played here. A 50m boundary shouldn't be allowed to exist
It’sbehind square IPL games
How about a 25m boundary?
Am I alone in getting the ick seeing dimensions measured in feet?
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They put it in both but it's an American catered audience. We cant visualize 50 m in our head, but we have a reference for 164 ft
Oh for sure, I was just being a parochial twat - if I was a real traditionalist though I'd be advocating for the return of Chains, yards and furlongs.
cricket is measured in imperial as per MCC...22 yards. live with it
This is America we dont give a fuck about your units
Also dont you guys use yards like 22 yards?
It’s an American League. We measure things like that, it’s not as big a deal as Reddit makes it out to be. I’m much more comfortable seeing things measured like that than in meters
I prefer hotdog eg 1 feet = 1 hotdog so it 1 meter but 3 1/3 hot dogs
Aside from the obvious short boundaries, where are the american units? Smh shouldn't they mention how many elephants that size would be?
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Not even a banana for scale what a disgrace.
Left handers dream
Even with the New York pitch from last year it’s easy to score big targets just look at the score yesterday
Didn’t they say the smallest boundary would be 56m (which is smaller than the ~60m ICC minimum anyway)? I get that the boundary behind the batter is usually smaller. But that concept made more sense back when playing behind square was a lot rarer. Idk, I am probably being a little too pedantic about this, but you shouldn’t be able to flex the guidelines like this.
Link to the 56m statement -> https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/133853/mlc-unveils-californias-iconic-coliseum-stadium-as-new-venue-cricbuzzcom
Wtf is 207 ft? We're non americans. Please simplify for us..
Edit: Fu ck! Didn't see the meters right under! I must be blind!
I feel people in the comments are whining too much.
They got together a stadium and literally repurposed it for cricket in USA and we are complaining
Why are the boundaries being measured from one side and not the centre?
I reckon it makes more sense to measure them from where the batter hits the ball from anyway.
Coz that's where they bat
Throwing the bowling for 6 is better then bowling short ball on this ground
Grounds getting smaller and smaller..more and more records ro come. Although a good job getting the stadium cricket ready..
It’s just that in Baseball, hitter hits from one corner of the field and straight down is around 400 ft or 122 m for a home run and around 330-360ft or 100-110 m on the shortest side. Their dimension can’t be appropriate for Cricket, different sport-different playing field.
Don’t bowl short!!