Next Summers Ashes Schedule

[happy_eagle]

...Has Been released, with the main point that England will get a few more practice games before the first test. Hopefully this increases the competetivness of the first test,as they are usually blowouts

http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/446945.html

Also great to see Australia A back in for front (i know they still play, but rarely against full international sides)

The schedule appears as such

2010-11 itinerary


Sri Lanka in Australia
Tour match v Queensland, 22 October, Brisbane
Tour match v New South Wales, 24 October, Sydney
T20 tour match v New South Wales, 27 October, Sydney
Twenty20 international, 31 October, Perth
1st ODI, 3 November, Melbourne
2nd ODI, 5 November, Sydney
3rd ODI, 7 November, Brisbane


England in Australia

Tour match v Western Australia, 5-7 November, Perth
Tour match v South Australia, 11-13 November, Adelaide
Tour match v Australia A, 17-20 November, Hobart
1st Test, 25-29 November, Brisbane
2nd Test, 3-7 December, Adelaide
Tour match v Victoria, 10-12 December, Melbourne
3rd Test, 16-20 December, Perth
4th Test, 26-30 December, Melbourne
5th Test, 3-7 January, Sydney

Tour match v PM's XI, 10 January, Canberra
Twenty20 international, 12 January, Adelaide
Twenty20 international, 14 January, Melbourne
1st ODI, 16 January, Melbourne
2nd ODI, 21 January, Hobart
3rd ODI, 23 January, Sydney
4th ODI, 26 January, Adelaide
5th ODI, 30 January, Brisbane
6th ODI, 2 February, Sydney
7th ODI, 6 February, Perth

Points to gather
- Hobart miss out on a test (was going to happen anyway (although they get an Australia A match))
- Very Short tour for Sri Lanka, are we going over there for tests soon ?
- Still sticking with a 7 match ODI series i see

 

[roostersgal4eva]

Too many ODI's and not enough 20/20's

at least the 20/20's are on before the ODI's

 

[Spikey]

Would rather 5 OD's with SL than 7 OD's with England.


Of course I'd rather some tests - even the awful two test series - with SL than 3 OD's against them.

 

[happy_eagle]

I think that at least one test against Sri Lanka in Hobart would be good

You would still be playing 6 tests per summer

 

[magic_johnson!]

Should possibly be attending some of the Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne tests

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Too many ODI's, reduce it to a 3 match ODI series. Have a 3 match T20 series.

 

[Kim Hagdorn]

7 ODIs against England is ridiculous in length.

 

[pluga_4]

7 ODIs against England is ridiculous in length.

warm up immediately before the world cup

 

[Russian]

warm up immediately before the world cup

but do you really get anything out of playing the same team, particularly a tired one at the end of a 3 month tour, 7 times? Even getting Bangladesh/Zimbabwe/Ireland out for a few games would be more useful than the extra games against the Poms, just wouldn't make as much money.

Also with the extra pressures on the domestic schedule from T20 comps and the AFL, scheduling tour matches for the Champions League teams is ridiculous.

 

[The_Reaper]

I have a feeling that we will see two of Hilfenhaus, Siddle and Bollinger playing for Australia A

 

[nobbyiscool]

7 ODIs? 7?

come on Cricket Australia, take the hint... this form of the game is almost comatose... saturating it is the opposite of what needs to be done to keep it relevant. i understand it's just prior to a world cup, but 5, or even 3 ODIs is plenty...

last nites t20 match is yet another example of a game that the public is far more interested in. the batting power play has almost killed ODIs further, because the lull from overs 15-40 has now become a lul almost from over 10 (with sides not wanting to risk going to the middle overs 3 or 4 down) up to over 43-45 when the batting side takes their power play.


on something of a tangent, next years world cup could be the last time we see a 50 over world cup if it is to maintain it's current incarnation.

give us rule changes to make it different to t20, not just a longer, more boring version of it. we need a white ball from either end. we need field restrictions adjusted with 2 outside the circle and 2 catchers from overs 1-12, 3 outside the circle with one catcher from overs 13-24, 4 outside the circle from 25-36 and 5 outside from overs 37-50. even increase the number of overs a bowler can bowl to 12, encouraging a different style of batting line up. consider increasing the value of a 6 to 8. why would i spend a day watching sides scratch around to a par score of 260 at just over 5 an over when i can spend 3 hours watching 2 teams score at 8 or 9 an over? why was a par score 300 8 years ago and it's now 260? the game has gone backwards.

encourage attacking, risk taking play - discourage the lull in the middle of the innings. the game is in desperate need of a revolution similar to the one that sri lanka gave us in the mid 90s led by kaluwitharana and jayasuria.


keep changing the rules. it isn't rule changes for the sake of rule changes - it's rule changes for the sake of keeping a dying form of the game relevant and interesting.

 

[aidancdaman]

This whole 7 ODI's thing is just irritating. It means the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy is missing in the summer's schedule for both sides, the first time this has happened since it's conception in 2004.

 

[Hellgood]

Yeah 7 is ridiculous.

Why? Whats the point of them? I like the 50 over game, but playing a 7 match ODI series against England (a boring ODI team) is pathetic. 5 match series at the most, this is a great example of administrator greed that we so often hear about in warnings from past players.

 

[Thumpy]

Good to see a 20/20 game in Adelaide finally but way too many ODI's. They should have had 5 and a couple more 20/20's in the capitals that missed out (Brisbane, Sydney)

 

[Cousin Jed]

You can't have any more than 2 T20's against the same team in a summer.

 

[HSSB]

Love that Adelaide get a test, ODI, tour match and 20/20 match. 7 ODI's is too many though.

 

[matty p]

Very happy that we get a T20 in Adelaide. Not so happy that there are 7 ODI's - what's the point?

 

[saj_21]

I think 7 ODI's are to much but at least Cricket Aus are giving them every chance to improve attendances by scheduling the majority of them in the school holiday peroid.

How many people are going to attend todays game at adelaide, most people are working and kids are at school.

Looks a great summer though, plenty of cricket to watch!

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I think that at least one test against Sri Lanka in Hobart would be good

You would still be playing 6 tests per summer

Two things, one Test doesn't meet the ICC requirement for it to count as a "series" towards the Test championship. Two Tests is the minimum for that. And Hobart can not hold games that early, the centre square isn't ready and the rain risk too high.

That said, I'd like to see 6-7 Tests every summer. If Sri Lanka could come later, Hobart and one of Newcastle (except the ground isn't up to it), Canberra, Gold Coast could hold the 6th and 7th Tests.
Or a little earlier, Darwin and Cairns (or 3 Tests with Townsville as well?) could host again.

I do find it a little ironic that we all bitched so much about England holding 7 ODIs after the main event, and now Cricket Australia is doing exactly the same thing and most people aren't complaining about Australia's scheduling.

 

[Cousin Jed]

Yes they are. The 3 people all before you complain about that very thing, almost every person in the thread

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Yes they are. The 3 people all before you complain about that very thing, almost every person in the thread

In this thread, yes. But more widely, no. And even in this thread its simply "too many ODIs" not the fact that the ODIs are after the main event, as was also a common cause for complaint over the English schedule.
But that will no doubt come down to "that's how we've always done it", which is true in its way.

 

[nobbyiscool]

i know we've gotta play the 'crap' teams some time in test matches, but over saturating the summer with substandard teams will be met with the same apathy as the current one day series.

as much as i'd love to see more test matches in hobart, and i'd love to see a test match in canberra, a return to the top end tests is much more realistic, and probably a bit more tv-friendly and player friendly than trying to play 7 test matches in a summer.

i'd hate for the test team to start having to have players rested cos we play too often.

 

[dumb]

i think the 20/20 and odi's are around the wrong way. this is like getting people hungry and then feeding them dessert.

7 odi's pounding the shit out of england will be much more exciting than pounding the shit out of WI for 5 odi.