Thirsty Thirds haha!
Club rule is that instead of having throwdowns before going out to bat, you have to drink throwdowns before you go out to bat.
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Thirsty Thirds haha!
At 15-years-old, Kunj Changela spends up to 20 hours a week either training for or playing cricket, a passion born in his parents' western Sydney backyard.
Kunj currently plays in four teams and appears in the MyCricket database eight times.
Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts has declined to comment on the Herald story.
The body's acting executive general manager, community cricket Kieran McMillan said the body was working towards getting a closer idea of the number of unique crickets next year once all players registered online.
Cricket Australia fires back
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Whole response hinges on this: "These commitments are starting to bear fruit.", a statement that you basically have to take on faith as to whether it has any basis in reality. Seems identitical to the non-response detailed in the article I posted on prev. page:
Cricket Australia fires back
Essentially "Saving the cricket club is hard, coming up with easy ways to cook the 'participation' data is easier". Nothing but a hand wave, and laughable that he dismisses concerns about their data collection by citing more data. "Sure MyCricket may be bs, but our data with even less oversight is totally reliable enough to mean this is all nothing".Mr Spyrdz replied that Cricket NSW’s data showed participation increasing, in contradiction of administrators’ experience, and suggested the problem was theirs. "If you are having communication issues, it appears that that may sit with you and those you are communicating with as there are many within your own cricket community … who appear to be across what is happening. I respectfully disagree we show no respect to volunteers we work with in the community."
Sports do get funding from the Australian Sports Commission (or whatever it's called now) and the bigger sports get more. There's Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 etc. There is some sort of per capita funding but I'm not sure it's directly linked to participation numbers/growthAre the numbers fake to get free government money?
I was playing in the Mercantile Cricket Assosiation many years ago,and our D Grade side would play a side,Bournawatha,that used to do exactly that. Other notable things the guys would tell me is..they chose the club name by throwing a dart at a map of Victoria,they selected the side by drawing names out of a hat,if you dropped a catch you had to wear a dunces hat until the next catch was dropped,tea break was a bbq that had been cooked by the players not selected...I'm sure there was more but they sounded like a fun buch of blokes.Club rule is that instead of having throwdowns before going out to bat, you have to drink throwdowns before you go out to bat.
Cricket doesn't get much funding from the Sport Commission: https://www.sportaus.gov.au/annual_report/chapter_6/appendix_3_funding_to_sportsSports do get funding from the Australian Sports Commission (or whatever it's called now) and the bigger sports get more. There's Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 etc. There is some sort of per capita funding but I'm not sure it's directly linked to participation numbers/growth
I think it more likely to be positive spin to lure sponsors and also managers at every level looking to cover themselves with glory.
It's hard to measure the job performance of development staff. What is measurable when you're running competitions, coaching courses, supporting clubs, associations and volunteers...? What measures are there to recognise performance? Hard to do whereas player numbers can be measured.
I was playing in the Mercantile Cricket Assosiation many years ago,and our D Grade side would play a side,Bournawatha,that used to do exactly that. Other notable things the guys would tell me is..they chose the club name by throwing a dart at a map of Victoria,they selected the side by drawing names out of a hat,if you dropped a catch you had to wear a dunces hat until the next catch was dropped,tea break was a bbq that had been cooked by the players not selected...I'm sure there was more but they sounded like a fun buch of blokes.
Funny thing is it's actually a serious turf wicket competition,and the D Grade sides stil played on turf and always still had at least one official umpire.Lol the very definition of social cricket
I'm not sure if its denial or they just want to keep the gravy train rolling (I'll get to that later on).CA is in denial about the state of the game. Look how long it took for a cleanout of administrators etc.
Just because the game may be in further trouble behind the scenes there isn't any reason to feel any better about the state of the game here. The talent pool is well and truly drying up here and there is a lot more competition form other sports nowadays. Not to mention the state of the national team won't be helping getting kids into the sport.If you think that the talent pool may be drying up in Australia then you should see the state of it in England. International cricket has been behind the subscription-fee television pay-wall for 14 years now and clubs are closing down left, right and centre. Most schoolkids apparently cannot identify Joe Root or Alastair Cook. The hope is that the World Cup success will rekindle interest amongst the masses and kids but it will likely be just flash-in-the-pan. The England team is survived by overseas players given UK passports, posh kids from privileged schools and the Asian community. The game is no longer played in state schools.
Just because the game may be in further trouble behind the scenes there isn't any reason to feel any better about the state of the game here. The talent pool is well and truly drying up here and there is a lot more competition form other sports nowadays. Not to mention the state of the national team won't be helping getting kids into the sport.
One thing you are forgetting also is that the ECB have been better at developing what talent they have than CA for a while now.
Country areas in South Australia have suffered.
More and more 14-21 year olds are moving to Adelaide for their last few years of school, further study, apprenticeships, work.
Senior cricket teams in the country often have very old and very young players but nothing in between. Dads and their sons. No 20 something adults. Or even 30 something.