BBL All Australian Team?

[InTheWings]

Hey all,

Just a thought, it may or may not be practical, but just throwing it around...

How might it be if Cricket Australia let all the players know that from 2024 onwards, the T20 International squad would be selected from the players who played a majority of BBL games from the previous season?

I say 2024 onwards because that gives the current international players a chance to make their arrangements for the 2023/2024 BBL season.

Points for:

• We are selecting the in-form T20 players
• It makes the BBL season more meaningful / valuable to the players and hopefully fans and broadcasters

Points against:

• some injured players may be left out
• some of our more talented players may still choose not to be part of it

Other points:

• keep the BBL to a December / January tournament
• There would need to be some allowances for test players (I'm not sure how that would work though)
• Maybe those in the test squad need to play a minimum of 5 BBL games to qualify for the T20 squad?

If we had an All Australian BBL team for last season, who might get a guernsey?

My top Aussie players from last years tournament, in not particular order, would be
Marcus Stoinis
Josh Phillippe
Ashton Agar
Ben McDermott
Darcy Short
Glen Maxwell
Josh Inglis
Jason Sanga
Kurtis Patterson
Mitch Marsh
Sean Abbot
Aaron Finch
Nathan Ellis
Aaron Hardie
Hayden Kerr...

I am not saying all those players should be in the current international squad as, yes, there are some better players in our current international team or who were injured last January (such as Jhye Richardson).

Not many of the current international players are listed because most of them didn't play BBL last year BUT if they were told that the policy was changing they might change too. And if that happened, SOME of them would make the squad.

I realise that people are not sold on T20 but it appears to be here to stay.

My question is, would this be something worth considering or are people happy with the status quo?

If a system such as this was set up, how might it work?

 

[Westend]

Hey all,

Just a thought, it may or may not be practical, but just throwing it around...

How might it be if Cricket Australia let all the players know that from 2024 onwards, the T20 International squad would be selected from the players who played a majority of BBL games from the previous season?

I say 2024 onwards because that gives the current international players a chance to make their arrangements for the 2023/2024 BBL season.

Points for:

• We are selecting the in-form T20 players
• It makes the BBL season more meaningful / valuable to the players and hopefully fans and broadcasters

Points against:

• some injured players may be left out
• some of our more talented players may still choose not to be part of it

Other points:

• keep the BBL to a December / January tournament
• There would need to be some allowances for test players (I'm not sure how that would work though)
• Maybe those in the test squad need to play a minimum of 5 BBL games to qualify for the T20 squad?

If we had an All Australian BBL team for last season, who might get a guernsey?

My top Aussie players from last years tournament, in not particular order, would be
Marcus Stoinis
Josh Phillippe
Ashton Agar
Ben McDermott
Darcy Short
Glen Maxwell
Josh Inglis
Jason Sanga
Kurtis Patterson
Mitch Marsh
Sean Abbot
Aaron Finch
Nathan Ellis
Aaron Hardie
Hayden Kerr...

I am not saying all those players should be in the current international squad as, yes, there are some better players in our current international team or who were injured last January (such as Jhye Richardson).

Not many of the current international players are listed because most of them didn't play BBL last year BUT if they were told that the policy was changing they might change too. And if that happened, SOME of them would make the squad.

I realise that people are not sold on T20 but it appears to be here to stay.

My question is, would this be something worth considering or are people happy with the status quo?

If a system such as this was set up, how might it work?

Nice post In the wings took some effort

You make some valid points I do agree that we need specialists in all three forms of cricket test ODI and T20

But its up to the selectors to pick the player who are in form if that player plays all three forms so be it if he doesn't so be it

Its hard for international players to play in the BBL because of other tests series etc but it would be nice to see players rewarded on form

 

[eddiesmith]

The problem is they’ve done it before, picked the T20 specialists but then the NSW bowlers complain about missing the World Cup and they pick them every time even if they haven’t played any T20 games In between tournaments.

 

[InTheWings]

Nice post In the wings took some effort

You make some valid points I do agree that we need specialists in all three forms of cricket test ODI and T20

But its up to the selectors to pick the player who are in form if that player plays all three forms so be it if he doesn't so be it

Its hard for international players to play in the BBL because of other tests series etc but it would be nice to see players rewarded on form

Cheers Westend. Yeah I know it's a bit of an unusual situation for Aust T20. A few posters have mentioned how us Aussies don't put the emphasis on it that other countries do. It would be great if Cricket Australia could come up with some kind of formula that fairly rewards our best performing T20 players. That may or may not be possible.

 

[InTheWings]

The problem is they’ve done it before, picked the T20 specialists but then the NSW bowlers complain about missing the World Cup and they pick them every time even if they haven’t played any T20 games In between tournaments.

You're right there. And ironically there are some pretty good NSW T20 bowlers (such as Sean Abbot) missing out because of them.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

We need to push BBL players and if they fail, CA will need to work out why and improve the BBL and not just treat it like a meme

It will be short term pain for long term gain

But I have no faith in CA giving a s**t

Also I think three formats is too many formats for one player to focus on

Only the gods like Kohli can do that