SA Footy

why did they start the international season so early. for starters it always rains this time in brisbane. and its still winter in hobart. my biggest problem is after the second test, that finishes on the 20th of november if it goes 5 days!! then after that we have to wait another 24 days for another international game. so we get started and all excited about watching cricket again then after 9 days of cricket we have to wait again. So why didnt CA start the test series two weeks later. and then all the players had a couple of pura games as well.

That would be to sensible Joker

the joker wrote:why did they start the international season so early. for starters it always rains this time in brisbane. and its still winter in hobart. my biggest problem is after the second test, that finishes on the 20th of november if it goes 5 days!! then after that we have to wait another 24 days for another international game. so we get started and all excited about watching cricket again then after 9 days of cricket we have to wait again. So why didnt CA start the test series two weeks later. and then all the players had a couple of pura games as well.

NOT CAs doing at all, blame the BCCI. CA originally wanted India to play their tests in December and the one dayers in January as per normal, but the BCCI said "up yours" to CA we're playing Pakistan in December. For the Indians they can get more revenue from tests v PAkistan in TV rights than what tehy get playing Australia. Sri LAnka were locked into going to New Zeealand I think following our test matches and India said up yours too late to try and re-arrange the New Zealand schedule....

SO CA have been left with a big hole to fill in their schedule.

Around the ICC I'll think you'll find Australia are persona non-grata becasue were so good that the only way they can back at us is to try and push us around the board room table not on the ground.

A big push you'll find is for other countries to start questioning our "right" to dominate the traditional summer scheduling. They'll say to us, if you want us to come at Xmas New Year time you'll have to reciprocate. Don't expect South Africa to ever play a Boxing day or New Year Test again as they are trying to forge their "traditions' at Durban and Cape Town....

Joker is right about one thing though, scheduling test matches in Brisbane in November is a crock. It is dry ten months a year and we schedule a test match for when the rain starts to come down. Dumb dumb dumb!

regards,

REB

It could get a lot worse too as 7 of the current Test Playing nations share the same domestic time frame for their season of playing cricket. The South Africans are getting increasingly dirty on us for hogging the Boxing day time slot for a home test series and refuse to tour any where else.


If they gang up with the sub continent block we're f**ked at the next ICC tour scheduling meeting

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:Around the ICC I'll think you'll find Australia are persona non-grata becasue were so good that the only way they can back at us is to try and push us around the board room table not on the ground.

Which is probably why we haven't hosted a world tournament like the Champions Trophy, or the World Cup, or the 20/20 World Cup since 1992.

spell_check wrote:

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:Around the ICC I'll think you'll find Australia are persona non-grata becasue were so good that the only way they can back at us is to try and push us around the board room table not on the ground.

Which is probably why we haven't hosted a world tournament like the Champions Trophy, or the World Cup, or the 20/20 World Cup since 1992.

Spot on, no coincidence Australia has been overlooked for the 2011 World Cup for India, SL, and Bangladesh....

CA was pretty peeved as it was suspposed to be our "turn"

heater31 wrote:It could get a lot worse too as 7 of the current Test Playing nations share the same domestic time frame for their season of playing cricket. The South Africans are getting increasingly dirty on us for hogging the Boxing day time slot for a home test series and refuse to tour any where else.

If they gang up with the sub continent block we're f**ked at the next ICC tour scheduling meeting

Yes, I think things will start being different from what we were used to - 2 sides spending 3 months here Dec-Feb

No more!

I think the scheduling is great as far as the Indian series is concerned. Boxing Day, New Years and Australia Day Tests all in their traditional time slots. Was sick of real cricket being finished by the 6th of January.

I'd be happy to see our traditional one-day 3-way tournament scaled back a bit its starting to get dull seeing 3 teams play each other seemingly endlessly only to have the top 2 play 2 more games in a 'finals' series

Just doesn't seem to have much point to it anymore like it used to

As Australians we think it is our god-given right to host cricket here every summer in the way we do, and I don't blame some of teh other countries to get their backs up. Obviously this has come about through Packer's influence, and it must be remembered that we didn't always have international cricket in summers before that happened.