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kids these days are soft as (No Swearing Please)

i remember as a 16 year old playing 4 games a week, opening in every one and keeping wicket as well. That is a total of 200 overs wicket keeping and i used to bat a long time as well, probably 75 - 100 overs a week .......... i hear some 18 year olds telling me they are tired after batting 6 overs and that they are going to start hitting out.

then they turn up in midweek and tell me they are tired so dont feel like batting.

anyone born in the 1990's is soft.

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Is this a joke

You certainly do not keep the company I do

I could show you lads born in the 90's who have shown more courage in 1 minute than most people do in the whole lives and some of them have not come home I wish I had courage like them


As somebody alluded too the truth is injury get more reported and treated now even minor ailments

[Karan62]

kids these days are soft as (No Swearing Please)

i remember as a 16 year old playing 4 games a week, opening in every one and keeping wicket as well. That is a total of 200 overs wicket keeping and i used to bat a long time as well, probably 75 - 100 overs a week .......... i hear some 18 year olds telling me they are tired after batting 6 overs and that they are going to start hitting out.

then they turn up in midweek and tell me they are tired so dont feel like batting.

anyone born in the 1990's is soft.

thread closed.

sorry but i was born in 98 ... you might just have a bunch of softies who arent dedicated (i know a few) but to slag of a whole decade of generations of cricketers ? many people on the forum were born in the 90s and bowl and bat constantly to improve their game and because they love the sport. me being a bowler have had knee probs etc . i didnt listen to one and know ive got a permanently distorted knee. i can bowl faster than ever without injury but if people do get injurys it is best not to aggravate them no matter how "manly" it is to carry on in summer i bowl an average of 15 overs a day and im high on the batting order to. if you are prepared to call 100s of superbly dedicated and talented cricketers softies then go ahead but i would seriously reconsider what i was saying if i was you .

[Nickauger]

Is this a joke

You certainly do not keep the company I do

I could show you lads born in the 90's who have shown more courage in 1 minute than most people do in the whole lives and some of them have not come home I wish I had courage like them


As somebody alluded too the truth is injury get more reported and treated now even minor ailments

Here here Dave..... superb analogy!

[Karan62]

[quoteIs this a joke

You certainly do not keep the company I do

I could show you lads born in the 90's who have shown more courage in 1 minute than most people do in the whole lives and some of them have not come home I wish I had courage like them



Here here Dave..... superb analogy!
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if only the forum had a like button ...

[alba caerulea]

Karan trying to emphasize your point by lying just makes you look silly. You do not bowl 60 overs per day

Well modified lad 

[Karan62]

sorry ive fixed it i just realised how ludicrous the number was :/

[vividgreen]

Well that thread definitely raised a few eyebrows and got a few people hot under the collar.
I'm a 71 vintage (Warney/Mcgrath era), have played cricket constantly for the nearly the past 30 years and have coached juniors for the past 5 and took great pleasure in reading the varied views - i like to see things from other peoples perspectives.

From what i read, some of you guys have made some valid points and i think you've may have nailed it on the head.
If you love the sport and are driven to succeed, your hunger will not allow you to be soft even when there are so many other distractions for the youth of today. Lets not generalise, we are talking about test cricketers, so if you've made it to that level, you have had a single minded obsession with the sport and are not the norm.

I think the points raised involving, over coaching and todays gym obsession, with an element of sports science, is most likely the cause of todays injuries as growing bodies just can't cope with the physical demands that these pursuits place on young bodies.

Have you ever noticed the physiques of the general 17-20 year lad these days - they are massive and sculptured like Conan. Back in my time the general cricketer was never that size or shape because the gym was never readily available. Some saturdays when i walk onto the cricket field, i look up at the sight screen and think it would be more appropriate if it were a set of rugby poles, when i have this tearaway 6'4 18 year old sprinting in off the long run up. These hulking physiques, over training, over coaching, tweaking with techniques, etc develop bodies that are highly strung and are not subtle or flexible enough to cope with the riggers of todays cricket. Another point of comparison, look at todays endurance sports - triathlons, tennis, etc, most of these top performers are lean and flexible, making them ideal for going the journey.

In the 70's and 80's most kids played every sport going around until they reached about 16, then graduated to the sport they performed best in, so there was never an onus on over coaching or over analysing a particular code, early in life. Todays parents and coaches spot potential in an 8 year old and try to map out there life before the child even gets a chance to enjoy the sport or more importantly, develop their body naturally........