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 »
Evening Tests?
Posted in New age test, tagged attendance, australia, basin reserve, Boxing day, boxing day test, Cricket, Evening, Exciting, Interest, Money Cricket, Night Test, perth, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Twenty20, waca, White ball, Worl Cup, World Cup on 15/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Great crowd in today folk’s, 800 people have watched the days play!” That is a typical first day at a Test Match in New Zealand, people trickling in during the day but not sticking around. With Tests being played on weekdays the fans that bring the money through the gates just cannot make it. By [...]
Where ODI’s are winning.
Posted in Test Viability, tagged attendance, australia, basin reserve, Boxing day, boxing day test, Cricket, Exciting, Interest, Money Cricket, ODI, One Day International, perth, Professional Cricket, south africa, sport, T20, Test Cricket, Twenty20, waca, Worl Cup, World Cup on 14/06/2009 | 3 Comments »
When I sit back and dare to dream about what playing international cricket would be like, I don’t think about One Dayers or Twenty20′s, I think about taking 5 wickets in a Test Match Innings. Why then is it that there are talks of whether Test Cricket will last, what with Twenty20 generating millions through [...]