The 2011/12 domestic cricket season will see Cricket Australia introduce its new city based Twenty20 league. Although announced, very little about the format of this league is known.
As Cricket Ausralia are searching for a window of time to play this new league talk has been about cutting down Australia’s premier competition the Sheffield Shield and taking away the Sheild final and award the Shield to the team that finishes top off the table. I think this will be a mistake.
The Sheffield Shield is where we develop our future Test players.
Less games for these players at the longer format would surely harm their development as Test players. Also, the Shield final is the closest thing young cricketers playing for their states will get to playing in a Test-match-like enviroment.
Do we really want to take away the chance for young players to gain valuable experience playing cricket in big games like the final?
Currently the final is being played between Tasmania and NSW. The experience and learning curve players like Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Stephen O’Keefe, Pat Cummins, Luke Butterworth and James Faulkner would be greater then any other Sheild match or even any Twenty20 league game.
Cricket Australia are currently under going a reveiw into our system in the hope of finding a way we can get our Test team back on top of the world ratings.
I would suggest that shortening the Sheffield Shield would harm the future of our Test team.
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