After an extremely disappointing performance at Lord’s, which has left Australia staring down the barrel of a heavy Ashes defeat, it’s good to see that Cricket Australia has decided enough is enough.
It’s time to really start getting the Test team in order.
And what better way to do that than to extend the Big Bash across almost the entire Australian summer?
All loyal Test cricket fans would no doubt have been in raptures to hear this news, and it makes perfect sense from a selection point of view. The Sheffield Shield is out-dated; it isn’t even broadcast on free-to-air television.
John Inverarity doesn’t waste money on that new-fangled Foxtel and has the attention span of Shane Watson, so he prefers to judge a player’s worth in digestible, bite-sized chunks of three or four overs, to produce a sterling effort of sixteen from thirteen balls. A much better option when opposed to sitting out in the sun possibly all day, to see somebody score fifty runs off a mere 120 balls.
John is a busy man boys, you’ve got to get on with it; he does not have time for that kind of cautious tomfoolery.
The preparation for this Ashes series was poorly structured in retrospect. Exhausting the players with day-long sessions of play against lax English sides that only had two slower ball variations at best and couldn’t paddle scoop a delivery for six if their life depended on it, is hardly the ideal preparation for a Test series, especially considering the other options.
That’s why CA has come up with a much better idea to prepare for our 2014 tour of South Africa – the Big Bash!
To save them from the need to be rotated, players will not be subjected to the torturous and arduous long format of the game they will be playing in South Africa. Rather, they get to hone their craft against fierce paceman like Scott Coyte and crafty legendary tweakers like Brad Hogg.
While the batsmen perfect their slogs and slashes, the bowlers get the perfect chance to practise their variations, which will no doubt be key to bamboozling Hashim Amla and co. and slowing their strike rate.
So I’d like to say bravo Cricket Australia, for finally realising that our complete inability to construct a competent innings was the lack of focus on limited overs cricket.
With decisions like this, we might just reclaim the Ashes sometime in the 2020s.
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