hopeforthebest wrote:Is this the Big Bash or a different comp?
Durhamfootman wrote:when is it due to start, Stands?
Durhamfootman wrote:I think there are, hope
Who'd be a member of any of the other state sides?
5 home shield matches and few bits of hit and giggle.... just as well the Aussie dollar is a worthless currency, because you'd get no value for it from cricket.
I can almost hear Vaughan, Swann and Lloyd salivating over the prospect of only having to play 10 shield matches and no travelling for anything else. Pretty soon all 3 will be promoting this for county cricket
Alviro Patterson wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:I think there are, hope
Who'd be a member of any of the other state sides?
5 home shield matches and few bits of hit and giggle.... just as well the Aussie dollar is a worthless currency, because you'd get no value for it from cricket.
I can almost hear Vaughan, Swann and Lloyd salivating over the prospect of only having to play 10 shield matches and no travelling for anything else. Pretty soon all 3 will be promoting this for county cricket
Or 4 home matches if you support New South Wales as the 5th game is to be played in New Zealand.
The Australian domestic season barely allows those on the fringes of test cricket to play red ball cricket. Just one match before the New Zealand series start, 3 more games before the West Indies. Then as the Sheffield Shield resumes, only one more match before the return series against New Zealand.
5 matches at most for a fringe player to earn a Baggy Green, one match at most for a current international to hone their red ball game. Players don't need rest, recovery and preparation, they need game time.
Making_Splinters wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:
Or 4 home matches if you support New South Wales as the 5th game is to be played in New Zealand.
The Australian domestic season barely allows those on the fringes of test cricket to play red ball cricket. Just one match before the New Zealand series start, 3 more games before the West Indies. Then as the Sheffield Shield resumes, only one more match before the return series against New Zealand.
5 matches at most for a fringe player to earn a Baggy Green, one match at most for a current international to hone their red ball game. Players don't need rest, recovery and preparation, they need game time.
I'd say that Australia's record over the years would strongly disagree with such statements.
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