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+x+x+xI think FC cricket can be operated simultaneously with Mickey Mouse cricket. Instead of finishing in early December and starting again in late Feb, FC can continue whilst BBL operates as well. I'd also like to see Northern Territory and the ACT added to FC Shield cricket. All Cricket Aus worries about is making money ATM, and, making the FC cricket milieu subservient to BBL. A Former Tas Crick Assoc CEO told me it is only the tours by India and England that make money in Tests. In that case they can subsidise more Tests, up to 8 in a summer, by including venues like Hobart and the ACT on a regular basis, with all the BBL revenue they rake in. Introducing the NT and the ACL to the Shield, would also increase FC games to 14 games a season, instead of 10. ATM we have the bizarre scenario where some regular Shield cricketers, who don't land a BBL contract, play grade cricket for circa three months in the middle of the Aussie FC cricket season, because there is no FC cricket available! I have a slightly different point of view in relation to white ball & red ball cricket. Most of us on this forum. love our red ball cricket, however white ball cricket is a fact of life & the sooner we accept this & stop complaining about it the better. Our focus should now be "how can we make this work for us in red ball cricket"? For instance look at the range of shots batters now use - they just tend to use them at the wrong moment in red ball. Bowlers now have a greater variety of deliveries than ever before - remember Merv Hughes first googly out the back of his hand - now common place. Warner is a great example of white ball talent being converted into red ball cricket. Smith, so unconventional, yet the shots he can play are remarkable. As I have mentioned before, cricket is now a modern day sport & from top to bottom our whole thinking has to change to keep pace with other codes to keep the game interesting enough to attract new talent & in most cases this will be through white ball cricket. Many good points, JJ. At the same time BBL ( Aussie Baseball, fake cricket, Mickey Mouse cricket) is destroying the heartland of FC and Test cricket and the epicentre of cricket supporters, with the leadership of Crick Aus. Headlines on the back page of the local Murdoch tabloid today, is not the Test in Canberra, but a potential recruit for the Hobart Hurricanes. Tassie Shield players are virtually unknown to the public in Tasmania, whilst BBL players are superheroes. Wish NZ had your problem. We don't even get regular tv coverage of our t20. It's really difficult to follow up and coming talent.
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+x+x+xI think FC cricket can be operated simultaneously with Mickey Mouse cricket. Instead of finishing in early December and starting again in late Feb, FC can continue whilst BBL operates as well. I'd also like to see Northern Territory and the ACT added to FC Shield cricket. All Cricket Aus worries about is making money ATM, and, making the FC cricket milieu subservient to BBL. A Former Tas Crick Assoc CEO told me it is only the tours by India and England that make money in Tests. In that case they can subsidise more Tests, up to 8 in a summer, by including venues like Hobart and the ACT on a regular basis, with all the BBL revenue they rake in. Introducing the NT and the ACL to the Shield, would also increase FC games to 14 games a season, instead of 10. ATM we have the bizarre scenario where some regular Shield cricketers, who don't land a BBL contract, play grade cricket for circa three months in the middle of the Aussie FC cricket season, because there is no FC cricket available! Introducing the NT and the ACL to the Shield, would also increase FC games to 14 games a season, instead of 10. ATM we have the bizarre scenario where some regular Shield cricketers, who don't land a BBL contract, play grade cricket for circa three months in the middle of the Aussie FC cricket season, because there is no FC cricket available! DC I have maintained this same argument for some time . The main objection I am hearing is we do not have sufficient first class standard cricketers to fill another two extra teams. I believe we do. Plenty of good players come from the Top End and the ACT. Boost their stocks with interstaters that can not make their Shield teams. There is also second tier Futures League. Some outstanding young talent that otherwise will never get to play top shelf domestic red ball cricket. Naturally these two rookie teams will be cannon fodder for the first few years. That is expected. I Fake cricket is making so much money, it can subsidise Test cricket and FC cricket, now that we have so many Test playing nations. Given there are England, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, and now Ireland and Afghanistan, all playing Test cricket, we play most of our cricket against the strongest countries - India, England and South Africa. We signed some sort of agreement to play India and England for a huge portion of Tests. We could also do with playing some other teams that are not quite so strong, particularly when we are in rebuilding phase like we are now. The only cricket that makes money are the ICC events, big domestic t20 comps, Aus playing England for the Ashes and every time India plays at all. So Aus is doing well to have the BBL. I wouldn't knock it so swiftly. The issue is the intl calendar around it. A further issue Australia has is the player's union push for such high salaries, means even the players want maximum returns for playing - or not playing in this case. But Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers. NZ in tests has not been to Sri Lanka since 2012, Aus will not be visiting NZ until after 2023 (last here 2016), and NZ will not be in the West Indies till after 2023 (last there in 2014). So I really wouldn't worry about Australia's amount of cricket right now. Aus needs to determine whether they want to be part of a global game, or just maximise player salaries. The BCCI does not maximise salaries, it funds all sorts from its massive resources. England pays huge money to its intl cricketers, but still funds 18 county teams as well. Aus FC and List A domestic cricketers are the highest paid in the world. By a mile.
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Initially, I was annoyed the ACT and Manuka had a Test instead of Hobart. After looking at what a good ground Manuka is and the spectator support, I think we should have more Tests in Aus year round.
We could have at least 7 Tests per summer and have a two/three Test winter series like we used to against the likes of Ireland and Afghanistan in Darwin and Cairns.
I will take objection to your first point DC. This Manuka surface is the pure definition of a road. Almost as flat as MCG. That spectator support is maximum 14,000 capacity. Unless they at least double capacity they are not going to get a look in hosting the big nations. So Manuka remains a marguee ground. Besides Bellerive always gives punters a good contest between bat and ball.
Like your idea of raising the amount of home summer Tests and playing the minnows in the winter. But we are purists DC . Not realists. Paddles will find a way to shoot your idea our of the sky.:P
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+x+x+xI think FC cricket can be operated simultaneously with Mickey Mouse cricket. Instead of finishing in early December and starting again in late Feb, FC can continue whilst BBL operates as well. I'd also like to see Northern Territory and the ACT added to FC Shield cricket. All Cricket Aus worries about is making money ATM, and, making the FC cricket milieu subservient to BBL. A Former Tas Crick Assoc CEO told me it is only the tours by India and England that make money in Tests. In that case they can subsidise more Tests, up to 8 in a summer, by including venues like Hobart and the ACT on a regular basis, with all the BBL revenue they rake in. Introducing the NT and the ACL to the Shield, would also increase FC games to 14 games a season, instead of 10. ATM we have the bizarre scenario where some regular Shield cricketers, who don't land a BBL contract, play grade cricket for circa three months in the middle of the Aussie FC cricket season, because there is no FC cricket available! I have a slightly different point of view in relation to white ball & red ball cricket. Most of us on this forum. love our red ball cricket, however white ball cricket is a fact of life & the sooner we accept this & stop complaining about it the better. Our focus should now be "how can we make this work for us in red ball cricket"? For instance look at the range of shots batters now use - they just tend to use them at the wrong moment in red ball. Bowlers now have a greater variety of deliveries than ever before - remember Merv Hughes first googly out the back of his hand - now common place. Warner is a great example of white ball talent being converted into red ball cricket. Smith, so unconventional, yet the shots he can play are remarkable. As I have mentioned before, cricket is now a modern day sport & from top to bottom our whole thinking has to change to keep pace with other codes to keep the game interesting enough to attract new talent & in most cases this will be through white ball cricket. Many good points, JJ. At the same time BBL ( Aussie Baseball, fake cricket, Mickey Mouse cricket) is destroying the heartland of FC and Test cricket and the epicentre of cricket supporters, with the leadership of Crick Aus. Headlines on the back page of the local Murdoch tabloid today, is not the Test in Canberra, but a potential recruit for the Hobart Hurricanes. Tassie Shield players are virtually unknown to the public in Tasmania, whilst BBL players are superheroes. Yes some sensible points made by jj. We do have to be realists and accept that limited overs. specially T20 is the fastest growing and biggest money making format on the planet..unfortunately at the expense of red ball cricket.. which we all love and respect the most of all formats. Dont write off Test cricket just yet. We knock the ICC but in the past few years they have introduced two new test playing nations and have finally ratified and will begin the World Test Championship in the Ashes. If T20 is to eventually sink Test cricket the sad thing is that apart from we purists.. and I am betting we are still in the hundreds of thousands.. our purest form of the game will not be missed.
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+x+x+x+xI think FC cricket can be operated simultaneously with Mickey Mouse cricket. Instead of finishing in early December and starting again in late Feb, FC can continue whilst BBL operates as well. I'd also like to see Northern Territory and the ACT added to FC Shield cricket. All Cricket Aus worries about is making money ATM, and, making the FC cricket milieu subservient to BBL. A Former Tas Crick Assoc CEO told me it is only the tours by India and England that make money in Tests. In that case they can subsidise more Tests, up to 8 in a summer, by including venues like Hobart and the ACT on a regular basis, with all the BBL revenue they rake in. Introducing the NT and the ACL to the Shield, would also increase FC games to 14 games a season, instead of 10. ATM we have the bizarre scenario where some regular Shield cricketers, who don't land a BBL contract, play grade cricket for circa three months in the middle of the Aussie FC cricket season, because there is no FC cricket available! I have a slightly different point of view in relation to white ball & red ball cricket. Most of us on this forum. love our red ball cricket, however white ball cricket is a fact of life & the sooner we accept this & stop complaining about it the better. Our focus should now be "how can we make this work for us in red ball cricket"? For instance look at the range of shots batters now use - they just tend to use them at the wrong moment in red ball. Bowlers now have a greater variety of deliveries than ever before - remember Merv Hughes first googly out the back of his hand - now common place. Warner is a great example of white ball talent being converted into red ball cricket. Smith, so unconventional, yet the shots he can play are remarkable. As I have mentioned before, cricket is now a modern day sport & from top to bottom our whole thinking has to change to keep pace with other codes to keep the game interesting enough to attract new talent & in most cases this will be through white ball cricket. Many good points, JJ. At the same time BBL ( Aussie Baseball, fake cricket, Mickey Mouse cricket) is destroying the heartland of FC and Test cricket and the epicentre of cricket supporters, with the leadership of Crick Aus. Headlines on the back page of the local Murdoch tabloid today, is not the Test in Canberra, but a potential recruit for the Hobart Hurricanes. Tassie Shield players are virtually unknown to the public in Tasmania, whilst BBL players are superheroes. Yes some sensible points made by jj. We do have to be realists and accept that limited overs. specially T20 is the fastest growing and biggest money making format on the planet..unfortunately at the expense of red ball cricket.. which we all love and respect the most of all formats. Dont write off Test cricket just yet. We knock the ICC but in the past few years they have introduced two new test playing nations and have finally ratified and will begin the World Test Championship in the Ashes. If T20 is to eventually sink Test cricket the sad thing is that apart from we purists.. and I am betting we are still in the hundreds of thousands.. our purest form of the game will not be missed. Fortunately despite recognising how white ball cricket is dominating as a money earner, I believe red ball & especially test cricket will be here for a long time. As Dc said there are hundreds of thousands test purist here & 100 fold in India. As long as India follows test cricket it will remain long past my lifetime.
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I admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed...
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+xI admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed... I think Vaughan is quite right. Aus should forget about pace in England, and look for seam and swing bowlers... He's 100% right. Pace is irrelevant in England when there's green pitches or swing around. Somewhere Aus went from picking the likes of Aldeman in England, to forgetting about this and playing the likes of Starc and Johnson...
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This is another bloke I admire.
Tim Paine speaking to the media about his plans before the Ashes.
"Certainly, going forward, the Shield games with the Dukes ball and then the opportunity to join the 'A' tour and get some four-day cricket over in England is something I’d certainly like to do and I will be discussing with whoever I need to."
Good for you Tim.
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+x+xI admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed... I think Vaughan is quite right. Aus should forget about pace in England, and look for seam and swing bowlers... He's 100% right. Pace is irrelevant in England when there's green pitches or swing around. Somewhere Aus went from picking the likes of Aldeman in England, to forgetting about this and playing the likes of Starc and Johnson... So how do we wake up these archaic thinking selectors? I do have some faith with plenty of scribes and former players picking both Jhye Richardson and Dan Worrall in their Ashes squads. No one chose Trent Copeland tho. So unlikey CA will either after he opted out of the last Shield match to front up for 7 Cricket. Copes may now announce his retirement and head into television.
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+x+x+xI admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed... I think Vaughan is quite right. Aus should forget about pace in England, and look for seam and swing bowlers... He's 100% right. Pace is irrelevant in England when there's green pitches or swing around. Somewhere Aus went from picking the likes of Aldeman in England, to forgetting about this and playing the likes of Starc and Johnson... So how do we wake up these archaic thinking selectors? I do have some faith with plenty of scribes and former players picking both Jhye Richardson and Dan Worrall in their Ashes squads. No one chose Trent Copeland tho. So unlikey CA will either after he opted out of the last Shield match to front up for 7 Cricket. Copes may now announce his retirement and head into television. Wow! Stopped playing cricket to get behind a microphone!
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+xI admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed... There is a female Kiwi bowler who bowls faster than Chadd Sayers! According to Alyssa Healy, she bowls high 120s. Chadd bowls 120 kph.
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+x+xI admired Michael Vaughan as a player and now as an astute reader of our game. Now we all know he is a parochial Pom and may be trying to hoodwink us into a false sense of security but he says we should not be picking speedsters in our Ashes attack. He also says that it is a popular misconception that English decks are made for swing.. yes they are but only to an extent. Vaughan says we should be stacking our Ashes attack with blokes that can firstly move the ball off the seam and swing it too. He says speedsters like Starc and Cummins should make way for the likes of Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers and Dan Worrall... someone that does not necessarily bowl at 140/45kph can move the ball laterally and in the air if needed... There is a female Kiwi bowler who bowls faster than Chadd Sayers! According to Alyssa Healy, she bowls high 120s. Chadd bowls 120 kph. Chadd Sayers does not bowl at 120kph.. that is a fallacy. More like 130kph. The secret of good bowling is what skills you bring to the table. I would prefer to have a skillful Trent Copeland or Chadd Sayers at 130kph in my team over a wayward tearaway like the Wild One or even Mitchell Starc. .
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Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.
Please elaborate Paddles.
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+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate.
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+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance.
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+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. Starc is now sidelined like his good bowling mate with a soft tissue injury. Fairly vague description. Will miss India ODI and poss UAE series. Likely avail for WC. Will be underdone if so. Has he paid the price for trying to bowl thunderbolts in the last Test?
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+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds.
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+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more.
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So Saker has resigned, Cooley temporary replacement.
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+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16
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+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators. You have a spin centre in Queensland - full of spinning nets and a spinners oval... The split block thing, I guess is cost and how often it would actually be used for games. You have so many drop ins now, you just need a few spin drop ins...
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16Couldnt have been a huge turner as only three wickets fell to spin.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16Couldnt have been a huge turner as only three wickets fell to spin. Look at Sodhi's e/r of 3.8... even 4.5 for Zampa is better than normal... Sodhi had Aus in all sorts, it was his first game back in yonks and he was looking like 1993/94 Shane Warne. Sodhi aint 1993/94 SK Warne level...
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators. You have a spin centre in Queensland - full of spinning nets and a spinners oval... What spinners oval? News to me. Heard they were only practice decks.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x Australia gets plenty of home cricket, and they want less test matches than England do due to the tougher playing conditions which harms your top bowlers.Please elaborate Paddles. Your grounds are hard like concrete due to your hot and dry climate. Is there any way they can have more games scheduled in places with softer grounds then? Your country for instance. NZ will happily host your Shield games and has done so in the past. We have more than enough full sized intl ovals bereft of cricket (3 in Christchurch alone), several in Dunedin, the Basin and Bay oval, and a nice ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. Not sure you want NZ to host your tests. Not good for tv viewing, nor crowds. ground in Hamilton with a spinning side as well as a seamer side of the block. This sounds interesting. Tell me more. The wicket block at Hamilton has two sides, with two different soils. One side is a spinners paradise, with significant turn, and the other side suits seam bowling. I distinctly remember the spinning side being used in this game... http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8418/scorecard/914235/new-zealand-vs-australia-3rd-odi-australia-tour-of-new-zealand-2015-16 Mate that is smart thinking. Why has CA not done something like this up at the Cricket Academy.? Defy belief our cricket administrators. You have a spin centre in Queensland - full of spinning nets and a spinners oval... What spinners oval? News to me. Heard they were only practice decks. I am pretty sure where the nets are, there is an oval with a spinners pitch... Ray Lindwall oval... https://www.cricket.com.au/news/cricket-australia-unveils-latest-weapon-to-combat-spin/2014-09-16https://www.cricket.com.au/news/hybrid-spin-wicket-cricket-australia-national-cricket-center-lyon-harris-west-indies-ashes-brisbane/2015-05-12
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Thinking this was an experimental pitch that did not work. They then looked at importing Indian soil. That was dismissed. Then they decided to use Aussie soil. Not sure that has worked either. So why did they not whack one of the new decks back into Ray Lindwall Oval so the players have a game situation. CA had big plans to produce these decks thruout Australia. Again no feedback from this.
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+xThinking this was an experimental pitch that did not work. They then looked at importing Indian soil. That was dismissed. Then they decided to use Aussie soil. Not sure that has worked either. So why did they not whack one of the new decks back into Ray Lindwall Oval so the players have a game situation. CA had big plans to produce these decks thruout Australia. Again no feedback from this. Where Lyon is standing is Ray Lindwall oval match pitch...
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+x+xThinking this was an experimental pitch that did not work. They then looked at importing Indian soil. That was dismissed. Then they decided to use Aussie soil. Not sure that has worked either. So why did they not whack one of the new decks back into Ray Lindwall Oval so the players have a game situation. CA had big plans to produce these decks thruout Australia. Again no feedback from this. Where Lyon is standing is Ray Lindwall oval match pitch... that foto was taken in 2015. To my knowledge Lindwall Oval no longer has a spin pitch. I recall bout two years ago Boof Lehmann.. think it was.. bemoaned the fact that we had these practice pitches up at the NCC but none installed on a actual ground...to play a cricket match. They did it two years earlier.. why not then.
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