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Am I the only one snoozing my way through the bright lights and glamour of the Big Bash League?
I wasn’t sure if this was caused from hangover induced by watching a thrilling whitewash and dismantling of English cricket.
Also not sure if it were due to my faith in the Twenty20 game not yet at believer stage.
Today however I pin-pointed the definitive reason why I can’t get excited by Big Bash Cricket.
And it’s so simple it is right in front of me.
So obvious that the Big Bash needs renaming in my eyes to the Cosmo Cricket Cup.
I am from Sydney and personally I can not get excited about the Sixers. Nor do I think anyone apart from enthusiasts of World’s Worst Drivers gets excited about the Thunder.
Yes this is cosmopolitan cricket and it was designed to bring the sport to new markets with the introduction of teams in Newcastle, Gold Coast, Darwin and Canberra.
Ironic it seems that we are no closer to expanding into new markets but continue to hit the metropolitan areas of the state capitals. If anything, hasn’t moving away from state sides to city based franchises further distanced the sport from regional markets?
Do Newcastle people vicariously watch the Thunder or support the upper echelons of the Sixes?
At least as NSW, they like all other regional centres in the state had a team they could identify with. Return to the state brand and I will be back too (with a few other minor alterations suggested) supporting domestic T20.
Cosmopolitan, not definitively.
The Cosmo Cricket Cup does not stand for Cosmopolitan however. In it’s present state, the Big Bash is the Cosmetic Cricket Cup. A list of eight soulless franchises pepped up in new pastels with flashing wickets under bright lights.
Teams comprising of nothing for locals to identify with other than a city name. A plastic entity that could be so much better if the powers that be stuck with the existing brand identity of state clubs.
A league of fixtures that will all be forgotten by Round 2 of our preferred footy season.
These are not clubs, they are non historical corporate franchises that make me feel like I am watching Pizza Hut v Dominoes and McDonalds v Hungry Jacks while KFC top the table and Red Rooster are the cellar dwellars.
Not that I am watching.
Am I the only one snoozing? If so, please let me know and I will take my lonely backside to the SCG for the Sheffield Shield and sit with the other old timers that haven’t evolved.
Wake me up when we go back to the future, or something like that….
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