Big Cricket Thread

[Tugga27]

Who's the bigger tosser? Warner or Wade?

Wade by a country mile for me.

At least Warner only abuses the opposition.
Both on the podium though.

 

[Rowan18]

No smith, no sixers.

 

[FKASC]

No smith, no sixers.

Nah. They’re elite.

 

[DanWCE]

Nah. They’re almost as good as the Thunder.

Fixed

 

[FKASC]

Fixed

 

[WCE_phil]

Players pissing off mid season to play in other leagues like the South African one and the UAE league * me off more. Need to find a way to cut that s**t out.

Play from October through to the final on the first saturday of December. Play Brisbane test starting on a Thursday week and a half later, Boxing day test is the second test, Perth third test, Sydney Australia day test, Adelaide day/night test to close out the test summer. 5 game 50 over series to follow finishing up with 3 days leading into the Shield Final being played starting the last Thursday of February.

 

[happy_eagle]

Play from October through to the final on the first saturday of December. Play Brisbane test starting on a Thursday week and a half later, Boxing day test is the second test, Perth third test, Sydney Australia day test, Adelaide day/night test to close out the test summer. 5 game 50 over series to follow finishing up with 3 days leading into the Shield Final being played starting the last Thursday of February.

Only thing CA would have against this (and a pretty major downside for them) is it's not school holidays so crowds would suffer.

 

[WCE_phil]

Only thing CA would have against this (and a pretty major downside for them) is it's not school holidays so crowds would suffer.

Do you think crowds would suffer if they were mainly night games (we'd get screwed over with double headers) and you then had that specific slot where you could have not only your home grown talent but top talent from all around the world.

 

[Ochre]

Do you think crowds would suffer if they were mainly night games (we'd get screwed over with double headers) and you then had that specific slot where you could have not only your home grown talent but top talent from all around the world.

Games over east finish 10.30 at the earliest. That's very late for kids not during school holidays.

Crowds during the T20 WC at that time were pretty disappointing

 

[kane249]

International windows ala soccer probably.

Langer had a similar view on Schofield's podcast

He thought it was heading towards players belong to a T20 franchise and they get released for representative fixtures from there

 

[ashley12]

Games over east finish 10.30 at the earliest. That's very late for kids not during school holidays.

Crowds during the T20 WC at that time were pretty disappointing

Im surprised that there isn't more of a push to start games around 6:45pm Eastern. Or 7:10

News straight into the cricket seems like a relatively good thing for ratings and people get home a bit earlier.

Finding ways to get the game back into a 3hr window instead of nearly 4 is probably an issue too.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Im surprised that there isn't more of a push to start games around 6:45pm Eastern. Or 7:10

News straight into the cricket seems like a relatively good thing for ratings and people get home a bit earlier.

Finding ways to get the game back into a 3hr window instead of nearly 4 is probably an issue too.

Scrapping the unnecessary drinks break would be a start. It's not like the extra ads have kept the coverage otherwise free of them. Watching Fox Cricket is like listening to commercial radio with the amount of randomly sponsored crap.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

After a few seasons in the doldrums I'm actually quite enjoying the return of "Cheat Code" Smith.

Almost forgot how ridiculously dominant he can be.

I give Smith a lot of credit in that he really seems like he takes the BBL seriously. Like when he scored 125* in a recent match he hustled off the ground to get ready to field. A lot of the test stars who participate I think just see it as a break from their national duties and a chance to make some extra cash, but Smith really is professional about it, even if he doesn't really have that much allegiance or loyalty to the Sixers franchise.

 

[Rowan18]

Public tickets for the scorchers final go on sale tomorrow at 1pm.

 

[Agent93]

Crowds during the T20 WC at that time were pretty disappointing

It was mentioned in the last Scorchers game that the total crowd numbers for the BBL exceeded the WC.

 

[DanWCE]

Not that keen. I go to a couple of games during the season, but I'm not going to be turning up to every home game

 

[FKASC]

Eskigod is a natural in front of the camera

 

[happy_eagle]

It was mentioned in the last Scorchers game that the total crowd numbers for the BBL exceeded the WC.

Similar number of matches ?

 

[ep2018]

Imagining Tye bowling to Smith makes my dick want to fall off.

 

[Dazzler9]

Imagining Tye bowling to Smith makes my dick want to fall off.

That is the strangest metaphor I have ever heard.

 

[WCE_phil]

Imagining Tye bowling to Smith makes my dick want to fall off.

TBH some random pie is probably the most likely way to get smith out atm as it wouldn't be any form of expected delivery.

 

[ep2018]

That is the strangest metaphor I have ever heard.

I was thinking what the opposite of having a jeans piercing erection was.

 

[Agent93]

Similar number of matches ?

Nah, course not. There's nearly 20 more total matches in the BBL

 

[THE A5]

Jono Wells is one of the most prolific BBL run scorers is mind blowing stats. It’s kinda like those North players that you never knew existed but have etched over 200 games

 

[ioppolo]

Jono Wells is one of the most prolific BBL run scorers is mind blowing stats. It’s kinda like those North players that you never knew existed but have etched over 200 games

He was one of the Strikers key parts when they won the thing, whichever year that was.
He doesn't seem to be able to strike over 100 anymore however.