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Can you believe the Big Bash is still fucking going?
The first game was the 19th of December! In what world does a T20 tournament need to take in excess of 2 months?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Can you believe the Big Bash is still fucking going?
The first game was the 19th of December! In what world does a T20 tournament need to take in excess of 2 months?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Can you believe the Big Bash is still fucking going?
The first game was the 19th of December! In what world does a T20 tournament need to take in excess of 2 months?
Yeah. Thought that this arvo when they were playing a replay on tele.
They've cooked their own goose. Nobody gives a shit anymore, and all the kids are back at school so the crowds are down.
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Didn't they look at their own backyard and the shit-show that was super rugby as they tried to expand, expand, expand.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Can you believe the Big Bash is still fucking going?
The first game was the 19th of December! In what world does a T20 tournament need to take in excess of 2 months?
So is the NZ tournament, yet with 2 less teams. It's taking them almost 2 months to play 10 T20 games each.
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Can you believe the Big Bash is still fucking going?
The first game was the 19th of December! In what world does a T20 tournament need to take in excess of 2 months?
Yeah. Thought that this arvo when they were playing a replay on tele.
They've cooked their own goose. Nobody gives a shit anymore, and all the kids are back at school so the crowds are down.
Mind you, biggish crowd in Hobart last night. Was a semi final though, and Hobart were run away leaders (but lost). A few gaps in the crowd which would not have been if played a month ago.
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@booboo fucken cold though.
My mate who coaches said last year the proposed extension was hard to recruit overseas players for the extra time and their availability for finals, so that's a perspective.But if the extra weeks don't lose money, then consider it a done deal. The financials trump kids bedtimes
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo fucken cold though.
My mate who coaches said last year the proposed extension was hard to recruit overseas players for the extra time and their availability for finals, so that's a perspective.But if the extra weeks don't lose money, then consider it a done deal. The financials trump kids bedtimes
I wonder how much of that was the calendar this summer being condensed for the WC though. Every major nation has played white ball cricket during this window right, with a greater than usual focus on ODI cricket right?
When it was just over the holidays you could be sure that all English players would be available 2/4 seasons (mandated in their CBA), and there would be at least one sub-continental team who would be the "odd man out" and available, plus NZ's calander would usually allow for T20 specialists to be available for the bulk of pool play or the end of pool play and the finals.
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@Chris-B said in Aussie Cricket:
In the 57th game of 59, which happens to be a semifinal - the team that's fourth in the standings knocks over and knocks out the top ranked Hobart Hurricanes.
Hurricanes lost 4 of their last 6 games. Hardly had ideal momentum, whereas the Stars sprinted into the finals.
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