There certainly needs to be something done to bring youth into the shield comp. Last round there was only one teenager (Sam Kontas) and less than 20% of the players were under 25. The cricket academy used to provide a pathway producing ready made players. It no longer seen to be the case. Either that or a whole lot of older guys are maintaining there positions because they can now earn a good full time wage playing. Beats getting a “real job”whufc wrote:So if we put down their ability to have talented youngsters purely down to population thats fine.
But that also means they have a system that allows young players with talent to get a chance and not have 28–32-year-olds clogging up all the teams.
Maybe this is an advantage of having 38 teams, noting the BCCI were concerned about the quality of depth having that many teams so have completely restructured the Ranji Trophy to include an Elite Competition to counter this.
Should CA consider a slight restructure to the shield comp or is it a case of it's been successful for a very long-time business as usual. What changes could be made......just ideas not all perfect
-Shield Cricket to be played whilst the entirety of the home test season is being played.
-Should contracted CA players be 'forced' to play the opening two shield games unless injured
-Should there be a 'state academy team' maybe a provision to allow them to have 2 overage players. What would that look like?
-On the other hand, should a rule be enforced each state team must play with (3) blokes under the age of 23.
-Should we do nothing at all, it's just swings and roundabouts and weve been on top the most.
-Do we need more teams, maybe one from Canberra and one from the NT, may dilute the quality but would give more players an opportunity.
-Does the format of the Shield need to change, more overs, play over 5 days, different point system.
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Slater and Jaques
and Brendan Doggert added to the squad
