I don't think it would be hard to confuse you TBH.
Fall and Fall of Big Bash
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No one I know takes it seriously
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Victoria won 4/6 big bash titles before the Franchise cricket, so it was natural that it would cycle to other states winning eventually.
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I was happy with the state v state competition. Felt real.
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The most inept franchise holding the league down.
The decision to resign Stoinis was baffling to say the least it was the perfect time to move on and try something different.
Cleavy
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might be an agreement with the players association?
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West Aussies do.
As a former resident of both Sin City & Yarra - i can assure you the Theatre Goers reside in the north and the rusted on in the South. In early ‘96 my girl and i would rock up to the SCG at 1pm for a 1.10pm start and sit wherever we liked. 16 rounds later you had to book your tickets three week in advance and queue for an hour to get in.
Stars will continue to get enough because they play at the MCG.
Don’t we have that with the European Cricket League?Austrian BBL that would be a blast to watch
it's nonsense though. why is a team flying to perth (because they always have a home game on Boxing Day) on xmas day any better than just playing a game? It's very silly from all parties involved and it should have been resolved years ago. You just do either a Sydney derby or a Melbourne derby.
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Don’t be a dickhead.. IPL is clearly the premier T20 comp
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The only dickhead here is you tbh. He's allowed to enjoy whatever tournament he likes. I like watching my local team play footy more than I enjoy AFL, despite it being an inferior product by and large. Am I a dickhead for that?
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I never said it wasn't, I just said the Blast is the one I enjoy watching the most because unlike the IPL, it doesn't get bogged down in DRS reviews, games are done in 3 hours and there's a more healthy contest between bat and ball.
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Cleavy
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I guess the argument is that both teams contain players based outside these 2 states?
When the Christmas Eve game was withdrawn from the schedule for the 23/24 season, the players association head Todd Greenberg was quoted as being in favour of a game on Christmas Day itself. So I suspect it's not the players association who are behind it's removal.
Dunno, maybe the Edinburgh Military Tattoo rates really well for Channel Seven?
Number of games have been reduced since then?
FWIW it looks like Alistair Dobson may move to takeover the US T20 comp. Todd Greenberg played Grade at Randwick in the 90’s - so at least he has a cricket pedigree but he’s got a big job in front of him.
That's not much if an argument TBH.
Yeah, it was part of the reduction in games. The question is why ditch the Christmas Eve game instead of one of the many other ways of cutting a game out of the schedule.
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I would have had the Sixers host the Spuds in a day game on Christmas eve with the Scorchers home game being the only match on Boxing Day. A full day of test cricket and 2 BBL games is overkill if you're likely to watch both like me.
The BBL is clearly way behind the IPL, Australians have been slow on the uptake with this competition. Dreadful playing surfaces and pitches and its top players not being available hasn't helped. In the 1980s and 90s we were top of the tree with the One Day Tri series, but we've let things slip dramatically with the world wide rise of T20. Cricket Australia has some thinking to do with its scheduling and groundskeepers need to produce "roads". People want to see sixes not wickets, the bowlers get their chances in TEST cricket but T20 is all about big hitting and runs! It's a completely different game. I don't particularly like T20, but it's what fans want for now, not sure how long that will be in Australia as attendances have fallen away also?
I don't really agree about the need to produce roads.
Sure the average IPL fan would probably prefer roads and huge scores.
I don't think I'm alone in liking it when there's a bit in the pitch for both teams and its a bit of an arm wrestle.
They have already brought the boundaries in to ridiculous sizes.
If you keep providing flat pitches with tiny boundaries, you might as well just set up a bowling machine from one end and let the players just tee off.
