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De Minaur sends qualifier packing in straight sets as an Aussie wildcard scares the World No.1
Oh FFS. Stop treating it as some sort of statistical analysis.
Do you want to get into the pedantics of ODIs still being played at times as 60 overs into the 1980s or 55 overs into the 1990s and exclude those because they weren’t 50 overs limited cricket? Or that the Sheffield Shield stopped being in existence in the 1990s because it was called the Pura Milk Cup? Or extend the history of T20 cricket back to 1996 because NZ played a 20 overs a side MAX 8s competition until 2002? What about Timeless Tests and 3 day Tests – exclude those from talking about Test cricket?
The KFC Big Bash was just an aside and not “the real thing”? What? What sell out grounds of the KFC Big Bash where you not attending in the mid to late 2000s?
Name me the major cricket nations that didn’t have a domestic T20 comp by 2005/2006.
Let’s just stay on the merry go round of pulling out pedantics examples as if they prove the rule, when it’s clear to anyone else that one day cricket did not take off globally until the early 1970s and T20 took off globally from 2005/2006.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
Your just deliberately being contrarian. My comment is very clear as to what it means.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
The Big Bash was played from 2005. In 2011 CA expanded it by two teams and changed the names. It’s been around for 20 years.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
No I’m not taking the pedantics of the occasional limited overs game in the 60s in England. I’m talking about it taking off widespread globally which only occurred in the early 70s.
The fact that players retire from international representation to play T20 is in itself evidence of how established T20 cricket is.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
It’s why the Perth Scorchers have always had such a big following / big attendances.
Some say people in Perth care more about T20 than Test cricket because of the attendances that the Scorchers pull. But a big part of it is down to matches in Perth starting just after 4pm in school holidays to meet E/S time zones. It’s an easy late afternoon/early evening event to attend.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
I used to enjoy the BBL, but my interest fell away. Not because I don’t like the format, but I just couldn’t keep up the time to stay across all matches, so it became difficult to understand the context of what was happening in the comp.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
“We’re in the early stages of T20 establishing itself”
T20 has been around for as long as international one day cricket had been by the early 1990s. Not sure that many would consider that ODI cricket was still in the early stages of establishing itself in the 1990s.
Which is the bigger transition? From Tests/other FC to 50 overs limited cricket? Or 50 overs limited cricket to 20 overs limited cricket?
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
The Shield makes CA plenty of money. Where do you think the players come from that makes CA the money from lucrative Test series?
This is part of the issue when the value of the Shield is discussed, when in fact it is all connected, right through to Premier League cricket.
Canary yellow is so last century, fluoro is in fashion: Nobody cares if you don’t watch the BBL
There is a weird obsession amongst more than a few Australian fans about India / BCCI “owning” cricket.
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It seems to permeate through the comments section in almost every article even remotely related to discussion re administration / scheduling etc.
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It almost comes across as a “how dare they”. As if Australia and England didn’t “own” cricket for the better part of 150 years but during which time wasn’t even considered as being a point of contention.
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Please everyone, just get over it and move with it.
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Like it or not, global sports capital has ruled the roost since about the late 1980s/early 1990s as to where broadcasters and sponsors apply their investments. There was a time *before* India was a financial powerhouse in cricket and that was the 1990s; that is when the West Indies sports culture was swamped by US dollars re basketball – and look what happened to cricket there re focus on sport at the grass roots level. Be thankful that there is a cricket market that is bringing in money that is focused on cricket, even if that is not now dominated by Australia and England.
India may have lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but they still 'own' cricket
You have to look at individual circumstances.
You can argue Bumrah wasn’t bowled into the ground if you assess it against what other bowlers have done re overs delivered in years past. Bu mt what relevance is it if Bumrah as an individual is physically only capable of bowling a certain number of overs in a compressed timeframe?
As for Connelly, whether we like it or not, the cricket schedule no longer allows for just red ball cricket fixtures being the be all and end end all of worthiness re selection.
It’s just the way it is and isn’t going to change anytime soon. So Test players are going to be selected on the basis of far fewer FC performances than in the past, with such selections being based on intuitive assessment of likelihood to be positive contributors.
Australian Test squad: McSweeney set for recall, veteran star out of Sri Lanka tour, bolter shoots into frame
I have a bad feeling that, for example, Aus playing Eng and Ind more often, will be done so on the basis of series being 3 Tests.
Hope I’m wrong, but I think this may be an approach to increase the regularity of series between the big 3 (+ one or two) but simultaneously reduce the amount of Test cricket in the calendar year in order to ease up the fixture.
Malcolm Conn: Ashes under threat - Two divisions won't save Test cricket but India can, if they care
The Sydney wicket was poor. Was a batting lottery.
Pitch perfect: Three-day Tests a small price to pay - batting techniques more to blame for shortened matches
I never said I was embarrassed to discuss it. I just get embarrassed by some of the ignorant commentary that puts forward as “facts” things which are anything but.
That said, Bush, I respect your actual engagement on the matter.
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
“Jeff, this is a sports website,”
Yes it is. But if the sports website chooses to publish articles about sport which comment on geo-politics – and others then choose to comment on that – what is the issue with responding to it?
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
My point is around using South Africa and Afghanistan as an equivalence.
There is no such equivalence what so ever. It’s just specious reasoning to do so, based on “well there was prejudice over there, so we did this, and there is prejudice over here, so let’s apply the same approach”.
It’s embarrassingly stupid to do so, IMHO.
If commentators *really* want to put forward ideas/suggestions about improving the situation for women in Afghanistan, look deeper into what the actual situation is and what the best approach might be to change things.
Equating things with South Africa in the 1980s is an easy go-to if taking a high-level and non-nuanced approach, but don’t anyone doing so think that they are in any way adding constructively to generating a better outcome.
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
The West is currently supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan in it’s efforts against Islamic State (ISIS-K: Islamic State in Khorasan), as well to a lesser degree the Taliban’s power struggle against against Al-Qaeda.
Al Qaeda is a lesser threat to the Taliban than ISIS-K. But both ISIS-K and Al-Qaeda have a broader regional (global to some extent) underlying doctrine.
The Tailban’s doctrine is limited to the geography of Afghanistan’s border.
Hence why, notwithstanding the complexities of the situation, the West is supporting the Taliban, because ISIS and Al-Qaeda are seen as broader global threats.
So, I get embarrassed by the typical commentary that dumbs down what is happening in Afghanistan when most commentators have no clue as to what is going on within the country and subsequently put forward inane “solutions” that equivocate with South Africa in the 1980s. “Put a sorting ban on them – that’ll sort it out”. As if, in any way, the situations are comparable.
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
Yes. Can we please dispense with the ignorance of comparing South Africa in the 1980s, to Afghanistan in the 2020s.
I actually feel really embarrassed when this sort of equivalence/comparison rubbish is posted on here.
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
Funnily enough, it’s the Taliban (out of the Pakistan border camps of the 80s/90s) who are actually really big fans of cricket.
‘Sex apartheid’: Government MP urges England to boycott Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan over Taliban
Cummins as a bowler has a shorter shelf life as a player. Cummins previously indicated he wasn’t intending to hold on to the captaincy until the end of his playing days. Head succeeding Cummins as captain is therefore a live probability (if Head is given the nod).
Test Mortem: Head should be captain on tour, Carey’s glovework like clockwork and Kohli's future bleak with India imploding
They wrecked Shaun Marsh’s career by batting him in EVERY position in the top 6. And they didn’t do that because he was failing. They did it because he was initially successful, so the thought process being “he can bat anywhere for us”.
They ruined his Test career by doing so. We wouldn’t expect any Test batsman to succeed by continually being pushed around the order at the highest level.
Test Mortem: Head should be captain on tour, Carey’s glovework like clockwork and Kohli's future bleak with India imploding
With the side clearly in transition between now and 24 months from now, it makes sense to treat the Jan/Feb 2025 2 Test tour of Sri Lanka, in conjunction with the 5 Test Jan/Feb 2027 tour of India.
Sri Lanka is the first step in helping understand who may be our better subcontinent players for the next several years (India 2027 being a key part of that).
Test Mortem: Head should be captain on tour, Carey’s glovework like clockwork and Kohli's future bleak with India imploding
Green is a 10 year #4 for Australia. He’s done his time at #6. He doesn’t need to be experimented around in the order any more by now having to open.
Test Mortem: Head should be captain on tour, Carey’s glovework like clockwork and Kohli's future bleak with India imploding
Head should captain with Smith as his VC giving him help/guidance.
Someone is going to succeed Cummins as captain, but that will not be Smith.
Makes sense to give Head an opportunity in the role and see how he goes.
Test Mortem: Head should be captain on tour, Carey’s glovework like clockwork and Kohli's future bleak with India imploding
EPL seems quite cut throat. What level of results see him safe for next season, and what results threshold has him on knife’s edge for next season?
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