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(12-30-2021, 04:03 AM)laj link Wrote:Paying for 80 minutes of that type of entertainment, and the history that came with it, is still really well worth it. The atmosphere would have been something. I generally go to a day of the Test but COVID kept me away, especially with a mother with underlying conditions.
It was well worth it, when you consider seeing a debutant taking 6-7 and Australia winning the Ashes. Etched in the memory (and much easier to remember seeing how short it was!).
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
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(12-30-2021, 08:07 PM)tonyo date Wrote:It was well worth it, when you consider seeing a debutant taking 6-7 and Australia winning the Ashes. Etched in the memory (and much easier to remember seeing how short it was!). Being there to watch that Boland moment is a once in a lifetime experience, like winning a lottery.
Years from now you and your family will have passed by a million people who remember sitting next to you at that very moment, or just a row away! 
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12-30-2021, 11:12 PM
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We need Punter to take the Pommy job, we need the old rivalries back if Test Cricket has any chance of overcoming the BCCI's money grab.
Test Cricket should be restored to it's full gladiatorial status, so that coliseums like the MCG thrive, and T20 / ODI is returned to being the clown support act for the big boys! The truth hurts, but T20 is full of failed Test Cricketers.
Unfortunately, kids always have been and always will be attracted to the clowns, .....
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12-30-2021, 11:35 PM
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(12-30-2021, 11:12 PM)LP link Wrote:We need Punter to take the Pommy job, we need the old rivalries back if Test Cricket has any chance of overcoming the BCCI's money grab.
We need Test Cricket restored to it's full gladiatorial status, for coliseums like the MCG to thrive, and T20 / ODI returned to being the clown support act for the big boys!
The truth hurts, but T20 is full of failed Test Cricketers. Quentin DeKock just retired from Test Cricket but will play the shorter formats, been batting like he couldnt care less in the recent series vs India and says he wants to spend more time with the family but I think he wants more money and less effort.
Test Cricket is going to have to pay more to keep the better players interested which will be difficult in the less well to do countries.
The IPL has its tentacles everywhere, new test kid for the Saffies named Marco Janssen who is a giant left arm quick was plucked by Virat Kholi from domestic cricket for the IPL even before he even played test cricket as a 21 year old.
Test cricket has become a 2 tier comp with Aus, England, India and NZ as the A graders and the Saffies, Pakistan Windies and the minnows as the B graders.
You watch the test between SA and India from Supersport park and its like going to the Junction oval and watching a shield game.
Ok there is CoVid to complicate matters but the interest is waning and the Saffies were the best team in the world at one stage but nowhere near that now with even the English county scene and short formats offering more than being a test cricketer for South Africa.
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12-31-2021, 12:08 AM
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(12-30-2021, 11:35 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Quentin DeKock just retired from Test Cricket but will play the shorter formats, been batting like he couldnt care less in the recent series vs India and says he wants to spend more time with the family but I think he wants more money and less effort. It's not purely about money although I concede that money affects the decision.
The problem is there is just too much cricket, there is no off-season.
Until there are some global rules about how much and who can play things are only going to get worse, the ICC is addicted to the BCCI dollar so I can't see it happening.
I heard a suggestion that I thought was on the money, pardon the pun, put a cap on how many professional games players can actually play as a "guardian rule" to prevent the quality of the cricket diminishing, and make it applicable across all forms of the sport. Because despite how much T20 pays, one T20 still doesn't pay as much as one test. If you cap international players at say 30 games per season, they are going to have to make very hard decisions. Because 30 T20 games won't get the bulk of them the money that they want. This gives national bodies a chance of matching the money. Anyway, something like that is needed to stop T20 marching over the grave of Test Cricket.
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Travis Head has come down with COVID and likely be replaced by Nic Maddinson.
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12-31-2021, 01:47 AM
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What's the odds Parrotsay's politics and the NSW Cricket Board screw this up for everybody?
If they can't get their way, this is a taking their bat and ball and buggering off home moment! I feel sorry for Hobart, they'll spend big trying to make the inaugural Hobart Ashes test an event and NSW are going to try and spear them before they even fire a shot!
I wouldn't even be surprised to find NSW push ahead regardless, and then launch a grab to keep the last test in Sydney!
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(12-31-2021, 01:08 AM)laj link Wrote:Travis Head has come down with COVID and likely be replaced by Nic Maddinson. They have included Mitch Marsh and Josh Inglis in the squad too.. Think Khawaja will get a game this time..
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12-31-2021, 05:05 AM
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I suspect they'll bring in Marsh, which lets them drop both Boland and Richardson to bring in Hoff and also bring in Swepson, leaving a team with three dedicated fast bowlers, two serious seaming all-rounders and two spinners.
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(12-31-2021, 05:05 AM)LP link Wrote:I suspect they'll bring in Marsh, which lets them drop both Boland and Richardson to bring in Hoff and also bring in Swepson, leaving a team with three dedicated fast bowlers, two serious seaming all-rounders and two spinners.
Doubt Hazelwood will be ready. Still only bowling gently in the nets. side strains rarely recover quickly. Think the bowling line up will be Starc, Cummins, Richardson/Swepson, Lyon, Green.
This is where having Green, who is starting to look a top notch bowler, is so good. Allows us to play 2 spinners if we want. Once he gets his batting together he'll be something. Right now looking a bit nervous batting. One innings and it'll turn around for him. He only has to average 35 to be most valuable as an all rounder. Averaged 33 last summer.
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