It would appear that younger cricketer’s idolize the world’s top players, but aim to be more like the mediocre six smashing players gaining 6 figure IPL contracts. According to an article in The Daily Telegraph young Aussie cricketers are now putting an IPL contract above a baggie green in their future wish list. They don’t [...]
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Money over test’s
Posted in Money Matters, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, IPL, IPL contracts, Lords, Mcc, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, Night Test, ODI, One Day International, Orange ball, perth, Professional Cricket, retirement, six figures cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, World Cup on 18/09/2009 | 1 Comment »
Country or IPL???
Posted in Money Matters, Money or country?, tagged 2009, attendance, australia, basin reserve, boxing day test, Cowdrey Lecture, Cricket, Cricket contracts, Cricket future, Daniel Vettori, Evening, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, Money Cricket, New Zealand cricket, ODI, One Day International, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Test retirement, test series, Twenty20, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 26/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the New Zealand Herald the six Kiwi’s that have IPL contract’s had many sleepless night’s wondering whether to sign on the dotted line for their country. Daniel Vettori, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Jacob Oram, Brendan McCullum and Kyle Mills have all signed on to play for New Zealand over the next year, but [...]
Freelance Cricketer?
Posted in Money Matters, tagged Andrew Symonds, attendance, australia, Cricket, Cricket future, Exciting, Freelance, Freelance Cricketer, future, Interest, James Franklin, Money Cricket, ODI, One Day International, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, test series, Twenty20, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 22/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three years ago James Franklin was the guest speaker at my schools sport’s awards. I was able to chat with him and talk about where he saw cricket going in the near future. He didn’t talk about test matches being doomed or Twenty20 cricket taking over, he said he expected players to improve the way [...]