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The main problem here is that Australia’s summer season coincides with New Zealand’s summer season, so playing more regularly is difficult as neither country wants to give up its home series.
In recent times we have managed to play two or three test series’ whilst also playing series against weaker test teams like WI, PAK, SL. Beyond that the only solution would be to play in Cairns & Darwin in Winter, like we did against Bangladesh a few years back.
Australia and New Zealand should clash far more often
I think trialling it at AFL level in the pre-season competition is the right way to go. The best umpires are the ones who will be best able to evaluate the system. At lower levels of football the umpires interpretations are much less consistent.
AFL to trial four on-field umpires
This reminds me of the Dean Jones run out a few years back. It seems to me that the players should/could have shown some sportsmanship and recalled the batsman.
Aaron Finch's refreshing honesty: "No idea"
Ryan, and maybe Patrick would like to answer also,
If you are, in your own words ‘a two bit hack who can occasionally string the odd sentence together’ then why are you an ‘expert’ on the roar and not a ‘guru’ or ‘rookie’ like the rest of us two bit hacks who occasionally string a few sentences together?
Why I don’t care about Souths, Arizona and the alleged cover-up
Dane, you forgot about the fielding restrictions in the power play overs which also discourage short pitched bowling.
I wonder who your ‘old school fast bowler’ was actually modelled on. Big Merv perhaps?
Modern innovations give wake-up call to disgruntled 1980s bowler
Time for EFC to flush Jimmy Hird down the Garry Glitter
Hird considering High Court appeal
I watched those last few overs on telly and it was a thrilling finish and would have been exciting to be part of the atmosphere at the ground with a capacity crowd.
I watch the games in bits and pieces and for a lover of the long form I have enjoyed them in the moment, However I don’t care about the result and couldn’t tell you who is where on the points table. Much the same for 50 over games, tests are still the best. Hopefully the kids who love T20 will grow to appreciate test cricket in their later years.
Binga's farewell night showed this Test cricket lover what T20's about
Liam, they have been giving M. Marsh games to develop his skills. If not injured he would have played in the last two tests.
I think the selectors are obviously looking to replace Watson and if Marsh shows form in the West Indies and Watson doesn’t then they will drop Watson for the ashes and move Steve Smith to no.3
Why persist with Watson?
Why should Bailey’s slate be wiped clean? If he is guilty and keeps offending then the penalties should get bigger. His slate should only be wiped clean after a year of no offences.
Bailey risks ODI ban after MCG go-slow
Hopefully by the time the Australian cricket team next tours India, David Warner will have learnt to speak Hindi so that he can abuse the opposition players in their language. Somehow I doubt that will happen.
They say ‘Ignorance is bliss’, Warner must be the most blissful person on earth.
Warner defends slanging match with Rohit Sharma
“while he tracking of where the ball pitches and where the batsman is hit is accurate, everything after that point is educated guesswork”.
Isn’t that also exactly true for the on field umpire?
I would think that a computer could mathematically predict the path of the ball after it has hit the batsman far more accurately than the human brain.
India could push DRS to where it always should have been
I don’t think Jason is suggesting you are not passionate unless you are sledging. I think he is saying that the passion is more obvious.
DIZZY: Sledging a sign of pride and passion more than ill-will
And 6 for in the second innings too
Where does Virat Kohli rank among the greatest villains to visit our shores?
Greg Chappell in New Zealand for sure.
Glen McGrath in West Indies.
Matt Hayden and Steve Waugh worldwide.
Ponting in England, especially in 2005
Where does Virat Kohli rank among the greatest villains to visit our shores?
If it was chosen by the PM then it would be an extreme novelty event and that would probably degrade its status and relevance even further to the point of its death
Days numbered for the Prime Minister’s XI match?
Maybe it should be scheduled as the tour opener in October for whatever test team is playing. Do they still play the England tour opener in Arundel each year. It should be modelled on that.
As for the AUS XI game in Hobart that should be revived as a four day game, but only when there are less than five tests to be played in the summer. Otherwise the schedule seems too crowded.
Days numbered for the Prime Minister’s XI match?
The Australian selectors have shown sentimentality on quite a few occasions actually Geoff. Ponting, Healy were kept on too long. Watson anyone. And as for your point about Alistair Cook let’s not forget Mark Taylor.
Clarke must stand down, or there's a World Cup shambles ahead
You mentioned Kane Williamson as being another potentially great player. Joe Root is another and having just come from an era where we have seen the likes of Ponting, Kallis, Tendulkar, Dravid, Jayawardene, Sangakkara et. al. it does indeed look like the new era of champions are emerging.
Australia vs India: A tale of two (stand-in) captains
Hi Tony,
You use George Bailey as an example saying his fielding in England would have raised his average from 28 to a respectable 42.
The problem there is that 42 would no longer be a respectable average. 60 would be a respectable average under your system and someone like Steve Smith who is, on current form, the worlds best batsman and who is also an excellent fielder would probably have an average of about 75.
I’m sure there could be statistics and averages developed for fielding/catching/run outs etc but applying those retrospectively would be difficult or even impossible
Time for cricket to catch up and value fielding
Hi Ronan,
Fair enough to include the bowlers batting efforts but you should take at least 0.5 off Steve Smith for his bowling when he had an economy rate of 5.05 rpo. His captaincy, which I think was conservative, unimaginative and in Sydney a little flustered at times, should also cost him at least 0.5.
I can’t agree with you about Shaun Marsh. He has done a little better in this series but 20’s and 30’s and a 99 are barely a pass mark.
Looking forward to reading your ratings for the Indian players.
Australia vs India Tests: Player ratings
So bowlers get higher ratings because the pitches were flat. Shouldn’t the batsmen get lower ratings for the same reason?
And bowlers seem to get rated on their batting combined with their bowling. The only Aus Batsman to bowl any overs was Smith who should lose points for that reason.
If fielding is taken into account then a few players should lose 0.5.
I don’t see any improved consistency from Shaun Marsh.
Just seems to me that most of the players are rated about 1 to 1.5 points too high
Australia vs India Tests: Player ratings
Virat Kohli needs 124 runs to better Smith’s series tally. A tall order but I’m not going to bet against him.
Better than Bradman, Smith sets new bar
The selectors have been trying to find a replacement for Watson for a while now. It’s time they made the hard decision to drop him altogether. He is nowhere near good enough to bat at no.3 and his bowling is still OK, but not what it was.
Move Smith up to number three, Clarke comes back in at five and Burns waits in the wings before replacing Rogers.
Haddin is on notice too.
Who gets dropped: Burns, Watson or Marsh?
There’s no doubt that the associate countries need to play more often and against better quality opponents in order to improve and grow the game. Hopefully this will be addressed with better scheduling, but with every country tyring to fit in its own T20 competition and attract overseas players this is even more difficult than ever before.
Football’s world cup has over 100 teams playing to qualify of the world cup finals. The finals are made up of the best 25% of those teams and the quality is always high.
Cricket doesn’t have enough teams to play a qualifying and finals type basis. Neither does either rugby code for that matter. So obviously more teams need to play in the cricket world cup. But how many more? 10, 14, 16?
Many formats have been tried over the last 4 tournaments and I don’t think we have found the right one yet. I am in favour of trying a ten team format, but ONLY if all the teams play often enough to ensure that the best teams qualify.
This means getting the scheduling of international cricket right so that all team play regularly. The costs and funding of these regular international matches then becomes an issue.
Why this World Cup has shown that we need associate nations