Cricket Discussion - Part 3

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Unpopular opinion - the women's Ashes is far more interesting than the Big Bash. The Aussies won a tight 2nd ODI today by 21 runs, to edge ahead in favouritism to retain the urn. If you happen to watch the highlights, the highlight for me was Alana King's equivalent of Warne's Gatting ball: brilliant stuff!!!
My big issue is that having short form cricket games and calling it "the ashes" should be illegal.

For me I just wish they would have the test match and call that the ashes. Eventually pushing for a 2, then 3 match series.Then have a separate short form mixed (t20 and odi) series and call that whatever they want.

I could get behind that 100%. But not what they've done.
 
The Ashes only truly relates to the men's game ie the history behind it and the death of English cricket after the first time the non nation of Australia, ie Victorians and New South Welshmen beat the poms on English soil at The Oval in 1882.

Women's game using it, just like Rugby League Tests between Oz and England using it, is just crappy marketing.
 
My big issue is that having short form cricket games and calling it "the ashes" should be illegal.

For me I just wish they would have the test match and call that the ashes. Eventually pushing for a 2, then 3 match series.Then have a separate short form mixed (t20 and odi) series and call that whatever they want.

I could get behind that 100%. But not what they've done.
I definitely agree with that. The girls themselves want to play more Tests, but the governing body for women's cricket seem to want one off Tests to remain the norm.
 

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I definitely agree with that. The girls themselves want to play more Tests, but the governing body for women's cricket seem to want one off Tests to remain the norm.
Which I get if there are financial pressures...

But why not just do all the hit and giggle short form crap first as a build up to the one off ashes test? It would make the test so much more meaningful.

The current format says that if one team beats the other in the test, but the other team wins the T20 games the latter team gets more points. Thats ridiculous. It would be like in an AFL grand final doing markers up at half time and if you take more marks you win the GF regardless of the actual score.
 
My big issue is that having short form cricket games and calling it "the ashes" should be illegal.

For me I just wish they would have the test match and call that the ashes. Eventually pushing for a 2, then 3 match series.Then have a separate short form mixed (t20 and odi) series and call that whatever they want.

I could get behind that 100%. But not what they've done.

My problem is with referring to the Australia v England women's competition as 'The Ashes'. There is only one Ashes series and that started back in 1877 and there were no women involved. Let the women come up with another name and stop riding on the coat tails of men's game.

I agree, why not have a five Test series or if that is too demanding a three Test series to decide the trophy? They borrow everything else from the Men's game yet persist with a ridiculous format that elevates white ball cricket above Test cricket.

I wonder how long it will be before someone comes up with the concept of playing the Men's and Women's competitions simultaneously, tallying up the points and deciding the Ashes? Ugh, perish the thought.
 
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A shock Test debut for 21-year-old Cooper Connolly in Sri Lanka has moved closer after a horror compound fracture in his thumb suffered by spinner Matt Kuhnemann left the Australian squad without a frontline left-arm spinner.
Kuhnemann, who was a near lock to play in the opening Test in Galle later this month, ran off the Gabba in agony on Thursday night after attempting to field a Matthew Wade straight drive off his own bowling, on what was to be his final ball of the match,badly hurting his his non-bowling hand.
 
A shock Test debut for 21-year-old Cooper Connolly in Sri Lanka has moved closer after a horror compound fracture in his thumb suffered by spinner Matt Kuhnemann left the Australian squad without a frontline left-arm spinner.
Kuhnemann, who was a near lock to play in the opening Test in Galle later this month, ran off the Gabba in agony on Thursday night after attempting to field a Matthew Wade straight drive off his own bowling, on what was to be his final ball of the match,badly hurting his his non-bowling hand.

Suck shit, Jake so-called Fraser-McGurk.
 
Marnus Labuschagne is the latest to push the 'Travis Head to open line' . What happened to the days when players played the game and left selection to the selectors? i would have thought that Marnus has enough problems with his own form without worrying where others are playing.

If the selectors pick Travis as an opener and he fails then George Bailey will be condemned as someone who has not learnt from past mistakes and he should be asked to resign. If Travis is a success as an opener then I will be forced to eat humble pie.
 

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