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“Hello Australian Cricket Board of Control, my name is Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer and I’m here to tell you how to play cricket. More bull to you!”
With that, the start of the hybrid known as ‘Baseless Cricket’ began.
The passion of the original game, when men were men and women were nowhere to be seen, is still here. It oozes out of our very pores. It’s in our DNA. But it is evolving, like all species on the planet.
‘Baseless Cricket’ is the mix of the marketing of the game of baseball with the three new forms of the game on a round ground, rather than an ice-cream cone-shaped one.
Now as we ponder the latest Australian team and the superb athletes that have come up through an AIS style programme, we look at our national game and wonder; if we have 180 of the best cricketing athletes in the world, why do we only use 20-25?
What if Kerry Stokes bought a licence and Lindsay Fox bought a licence to run cricket teams in the imaginary fantasy World Cricket League and took the game out of the ‘one team represents Australia’ mentality?
How would that impact on the current Australian squad? How would it impact on the ICC, Cricket Australia and the other nations?
And if the game embraced new rules that allowed replacements in Test matches, 12 men on the field and subtle changes to give players longer careers, would we all buy it?
Cricket has come so far in 40 years, it is incredible.
Of the summer pastimes around the world, it is one game that still intrigues and enthralls, and it is revered.
It’s audience runs from ages 1-100, covers both sexes, runs to hit and giggle or kill or be killed or a five-day marathon. It is life and death to the combatants, and more than that to the hard-core fan.
It can still bore one to tears, but that’s part of the charm. You can go to sleep watching cricket and wake up refreshed for the next piece of action.
Some would unkindly say you wouldn’t miss much, but you’ve got to love activity and national pastimes to let cricket into your world.
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