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Does anybody care? I'm a Test traditionalist and I tried a few years ago but I just can't get interested.

- voting system too hard to understand.
- too small a pool of players who can actually win.
- no history to the award.

Ch 9 seems to have read the wind and it's been bumped back to 10.30 here in Melbourne, after being live at 7.30 a few years back, then to 8.30, then to 9.30. Surely not long for free to air coverage at this rate.

Foxsports are doing it live.

Unfortunately I agree Rog. Seems like it was introduced to build on cricket's increased popularity in the late 90's.

Feels more like a club's B&F count than a Brownlow/Magarey count.

rogernumber10 wrote:Does anybody care? I'm a Test traditionalist and I tried a few years ago but I just can't get interested.

- voting system too hard to understand.
- too small a pool of players who can actually win.
- no history to the award.

Voting - Test votes are weighted 5 times more than ODIs (6 tests are voted on, 30 ODIs)
Players - only 11 in any Australian side at any given time, that is the nature of the game!
History - you have to start somewhere - it has been around for 7 or 8 years now though.

They're trying to make it like the Brownlow but people just dont care (well at least i dont anyway). No one would really remember who won it any given year, and yeah also the pool of players is too small.

It would be ok it was held discreetly like a District Competition medal (eg Bradman Medal), but shouldn't be televised.

Brett Lee won the Test Player of the year...

I think it's a good night to have and always enjoy watching it. The Hall of Fame inductions are the highlight, but also a chance to review the year that's just gone - given cricket doesn't just have the one season like most sports. There is also usually a special moment eg. Gilchrist's speech tonight or the Hookesy tribute a few years ago that make the show worth watching. I think being an Allan Border medalist would be pretty high on the list of things accomplished during a player's career - particularly from an individual viewpoint and given cricket is very much an "individual team sport".

Lee won the Alan Border Medal

Hayden One Day player of the year

Alan Border Medal - Brett Lee
Test Player of the year - Brett Lee
ODI Player of the year - Matthew Hayden
Bradman young cricketer of the year - Luke Pomersbach
Top State Player - ASHLEY NOFFKE
Womens Internation Player of the year - Lisa Sthalekar

It has been stated that test votes are weighted more heavily than those from ODI cricket, which is fair enough, but it is must be a strange formula.

Test
1st Lee 125 votes
2nd Hayden 107 votes

ODI
1st Hayden 24 votes
11th Lee 9 votes

Border Medal
1st Lee 12 votes
2nd Hayden 7 votes

Lee gets nearly double the votes of Hayden for the medal, even though his test points total is only 16% higher than Hayden and his ODI votes are less than 40% of Haydens?????????

Perhaps they use the Duckworth - Lewis system to work it out !!

brod wrote:Test
1st Lee 125 votes
2nd Hayden 107 votes

ODI
1st Hayden 24 votes
11th Lee 9 votes

Border Medal
1st Lee 12 votes
2nd Hayden 7 votes

Lee gets nearly double the votes of Hayden for the medal, even though his test points total is only 16% higher than Hayden and his ODI votes are less than 40% of Haydens?????????

you have got the test and border medal votes mixed up brod

well that would make a lot more sense

Interesting looking back on the year, I completely forgot that England actually won the OD final series last year. Shows the relevance of the competition.....

brod wrote:Alan Border Medal - Brett Lee
Test Player of the year - Brett Lee
ODI Player of the year - Matthew Hayden
Bradman young cricketer of the year - Luke Pomersbach
Top State Player - ASHLEY NOFFKE
Womens Internation Player of the year - Lisa Sthalekar

It has been stated that test votes are weighted more heavily than those from ODI cricket, which is fair enough, but it is must be a strange formula.

Test
1st Lee 125 votes
2nd Hayden 107 votes

ODI
1st Hayden 24 votes
11th Lee 9 votes

Border Medal
1st Lee 12 votes
2nd Hayden 7 votes

Lee gets nearly double the votes of Hayden for the medal, even though his test points total is only 16% higher than Hayden and his ODI votes are less than 40% of Haydens?????????

You've got the test and the medal votes wrong way round.
Plus the media votes on it as well.

westcoastpanther wrote:Interesting looking back on the year, I completely forgot that England actually won the OD final series last year. Shows the relevance of the competition.....

I'd forgotten about that too. You are right about the relevance of the comp. All it is is a way to make money and the ODI's are rapidly being replaced by even more meaningless rubbish in 20/20.

I think my point that a confusing voting system is in operation, stands up quite well.

Can't get interested either but hats off to Brett Lee who is certainly a deserving winner.

MightyEagles wrote:

brod wrote:Alan Border Medal - Brett Lee
Test Player of the year - Brett Lee
ODI Player of the year - Matthew Hayden
Bradman young cricketer of the year - Luke Pomersbach
Top State Player - ASHLEY NOFFKE
Womens Internation Player of the year - Lisa Sthalekar

It has been stated that test votes are weighted more heavily than those from ODI cricket, which is fair enough, but it is must be a strange formula.

Test
1st Lee 125 votes
2nd Hayden 107 votes

ODI
1st Hayden 24 votes
11th Lee 9 votes

Border Medal
1st Lee 12 votes
2nd Hayden 7 votes

Lee gets nearly double the votes of Hayden for the medal, even though his test points total is only 16% higher than Hayden and his ODI votes are less than 40% of Haydens?????????

You've got the test and the medal votes wrong way round.
Plus the media votes on it as well.

Thanks AGAIN for someone pointing this out....as stated previously, it all makes more sense now.