Finally... Slats makes some sense

[Smoooothy]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...twenty20-cricket/story-fn67x4c9-1226221500483

AUSSIE cricket great Michael Slater has taken aim at Cricket Australia (CA), accusing the governing body of “killing'' Test cricket to replace it with more Twenty20.

Pretty hard to argue with it

 

[The Passenger]

it will be very interesting to see if Slats feels any fall out from this.

you sense a lot of people are doing everything in their power not to critisize people for fear of falling out of favour.

 

[King Elvis]

About bloody time.

I'd love to see a bunch of other influential, respected people support him - Waugh, Border, Lawry, McGrath etc; get in there and make some waves!

 

[jethro11]

Everyone signed up with Fox will be supported their heart out for the BBL so the channel covering the real stuff might as well make some noise the other way.

But CA will probably find some way to punish him.

 

[RIOLIUSTAR]

Good call Slats...

I'd go one step further and ban all test cricketers and players vying for spots in the test side from playing T20 all together.

Leave for the retired players and others who have no chance of playing test cricket play the "shits and giggles" games and play more Shield matches FFS.

Anyone who wants to play T20 that's in the test side or in contention can make a choice, play tests or play clown cricket, not both, full stop.

This crap is here to stay so they should make a stand before it ruins players technique/mindset even more

 

[Blessed]

There is no doubt Slats is right.

Cricket Australia won’t say anything of course.

They still acknowledge that Test cricket is the No 1 form of the game.

The Argus report said, it should be.

But Cricket Australia have another agenda;

Making money.

Australia will never be No 1 in Test cricket again.

CRASH Craddock is onto it too.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/c...ricket-supremacy/story-fn67w6pa-1226221218460

AUSTRALIAN cricket fans must face the harsh facts that our nation may never be what it once was as a Test force.

In the pulpit-pounding days after a major Test loss, we do our best to provide solutions to how an Australian team that has collapsed more often than the Dow Jones Index in recent years can again become the bully boys they were in the golden era from 1995-2007.

But the chastening truth is that the game is heading off in a different direction, and it's not coming back.

For the next five weeks Australia's domestic cricketers will pack away their whites and play nothing but Twenty20 cricket in the Big Bash at a time when there is more uncertainty over the Test XI than there has been for decades.

The future of Australian cricket is not resting on regaining the No.1 Test ranking - but on making a financial success of the Big Bash.That is the overwhelming priority of the game in Australia. State bodies have been told to promote the living daylights out of the Big Bash, while the Sheffield Shield drifts anonymously along in the background - much loved but essentially unpromoted and very much assigned to the role of unglamorous feeder competition.

 

[peternorth]

whats the bet he'll be commentating the international t20 games.

 

[The Speaker]

Australia will never be No 1 in Test cricket again.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Good call Slats...

I'd go one step further and ban all test cricketers and players vying for spots in the test side from playing T20 all together.

Leave for the retired players and others who have no chance of playing test cricket play the "shits and giggles" games and play more Shield matches FFS.

Anyone who wants to play T20 that's in the test side or in contention can make a choice, play tests or play clown cricket, not both, full stop.

This crap is here to stay so they should make a stand before it ruins players technique/mindset even more

They'd get taken to court for restrain of trade and lose in a second if they tried to do this. Not that I dont like the idea (and especially keeping bowlers like Cummins away from it till hsi body is matured) but it will not happen.

 

[King Elvis]

Based on what?

If it was part of their Cricket Australia Contract that they weren't to play in the domestic T20 Comp if it conflicted with the Test Cricket, it'd be up to the players to take it or leave it.

The next batch of heroes for young Australian fans are likely to be the batsmen wearing purple or teal Big Bash colours who put a ball over the fence at the WACA into the trots across the road at Gloucester Park, not the Sheffield Shield opener with the classic defence who has batted for three hours to make an epic 35 on a sticky deck.

I don't believe this at all, I'd love to see the research that has proven it to be fact.

The Test Team is the pinnacle to everybody, yet they're mismanaging it and seem happy to be apathetic in their promotion and maintenance of that.

T20 has it's place, but if they think it's going to bring people to Cricket, who don't like Cricket to start with, for more than a game or two a year, then they're kidding themselves.

 

[Bomber Bears]

Based on what?

If it was part of their Cricket Australia Contract that they weren't to play in the domestic T20 Comp if it conflicted with the Test Cricket, it'd be up to the players to take it or leave it.



I don't believe this at all, I'd love to see the research that has proven it to be fact.

The Test Team is the pinnacle to everybody, yet they're mismanaging it and seem happy to be apathetic in their promotion and maintenance of that.

T20 has it's place, but if they think it's going to bring people to Cricket, who don't like Cricket to start with, for more than a game or two a year, then they're kidding themselves.

Being barred from playing a form of cricket and thus limiting a players earning capacity would not be legal I dont think.

Mind you alot of illegal player recruitment methods still exist eg the AFL draft wouldnt stand up to legal scruitiny (based on Terry Hill challenging the rugby league version some years ago), so maybe it is possible. Will never happen though

 

[Bombertastic]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...twenty20-cricket/story-fn67x4c9-1226221500483



Pretty hard to argue with it

Totally agree with this. About bloody time people pick up on this. Cricket Australia would also love the Test side to look like the T20 side.

 

[King Elvis]

Being barred from playing a form of cricket and thus limiting a players earning capacity would not be legal I dont think.

Mind you alot of illegal player recruitment methods still exist eg the AFL draft wouldnt stand up to legal scruitiny (based on Terry Hill challenging the rugby league version some years ago), so maybe it is possible. Will never happen though

Right about the AFL stuff, I don't know why people constantly compare elite sporting competitions to 'normal' jobs - they aren't, and the rules/regs that surround them very rarely reflect 'real' life.

 

[Bucking Beads]

We really are not handling have a lack of talent in the test side very well are we.

 

[The Passenger]

Right about the AFL stuff, I don't know why people constantly compare elite sporting competitions to 'normal' jobs - they aren't, and the rules/regs that surround them very rarely reflect 'real' life.

i guess it depends on whether they are being paid by the states for the BBL or by cricket australia.

if it's by CA then they can really do with them what they want... but if it's by the states it could be a little more complicated... i.e. can CA stop you earning money from another organisation (in this case, the state boards)?? i don't know the answer to that.

as you say sporting contract are different to regular work contracts...

there was an interesting thread on the main board and a couple of poster were pretty admanat that when terry hill challenged the league draft in the mid 90's the IR laws were much different and in the period since they have been updated to relflect the situations that sportsmen often find themselves in...

 

[Cotchin 9]

Should have scheduled the Big Bash after the Test series. Sure school may have been starting to go back, but it would fit in well around the ODI's as well. Absolute farce that it is on during a very big series against India.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Should have scheduled the Big Bash after the Test series. Sure school may have been starting to go back, but it would fit in well around the ODI's as well. Absolute farce that it is on during a very big series against India.

Herp derp, why would that work well?? Most people back at work, less crowds complete fail.

 

[TheBrownlowMan37]

My thoughts exactly, what a stupid OTT load of ****ing hyperbole.

You could just have easily said the same thing about England 10 years ago, test cricket is relatively even these days so any team in the top 3 isn't that far off being #1.

I heard the quote somewhere about how we'd never equal the dominance we had over teams from 1995 - 2007. We might not, but that has nothing to do with us returning to the top. That was almost a once in a lifetime team and England wont come close to that sort of dominance, but they can still be number 1 for a few years.

Craddock just wanted to say something controversial.

 

[The Passenger]

I heard the quote somewhere about how we'd never equal the dominance we had over teams from 1995 - 2007. We might not, but that has nothing to do with us returning to the top. That was almost a once in a lifetime team and England wont come close to that sort of dominance, but they can still be number 1 for a few years.

exactly, in 2000 tests and 100+ years, we've only seen three teams with that sort of dominance...

we'll get back to the top at some stage, it's just a matter of hard work, good decisions and it will happen.