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Bang- OZ series likely to be scrapped
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chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
Money talks, Bangladesh cricket doesn't. Another sign that CA only care about money and couldn't give a stuff about the development of cricket internationally.
Craig
World Traveller
Well the season is about as packed as, pretty much after the tour of the West Indies, they come back and have to play Bangladesh and soon after go to India for the Tests and then the ICC Champions Trophy. Why couldn't they have done this last year instead? It is pretty easy for me to find out what is planned for 2008 so I'm sure they have the required IQ to find out this information themselves. Pretty poor form IMO.
Anyway I thought Channel 7 had Olympic coverage?
Anyway I thought Channel 7 had Olympic coverage?
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
Fox has the Olympics too. Channel 9 didn't want to run the coverage of the matches as it was Bangladesh and during the Olympics so they would have no viewers. Fox weren't going to shaft the Olympics for this series. The main thing they could have fitted it in if they played it during the Australia home summer. The problem came when they tried to schedule it in the off season.
Craig
World Traveller
So what was wrong about playing last year instead? I mean I can find who is playing who in 2011, so it wouldn't of been that hard.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
Bangladesh played Sri Lanka at the same time last year. The first half of their season was packed with ODIs. They couldn't play them last season. You can't expect Bangladesh to change their whole schedule to suit Australia.
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Banglas series looking shaky
By Ben Dorries
February 02, 2008 AUSTRALIA'S top cricketers may get an unexpected winter break, with the home Test series against Bangladesh poised to go on the chopping block.
The two-Test series scheduled to be played in Cairns and Darwin in August is set to be scrapped, with three-one dayers instead to be staged in Darwin.
The Top End series, which Australia has previously contested against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, has run at an enormous loss and left a black hole in Cricket Australia coffers.
This year's proposed Test series would have clashed with the Olympic Games in Beijing and it is understood there would have been no television coverage, with Channel 9 refusing to show the series.
Cricket Australia has been locked in talks with its Bangladesh counterpart, but doubts remain about how the Test series can be postponed.
Home boards have obligations under the International Cricket Council's future tours program, and Australia's schedule is so jam-packed during the next two years that the series would be almost impossible to re-schedule.
Cricket officials have indicated the Test series will almost certainly be canned, with the Northern Territory Government set to make an announcement as early as next week.
The postponement of the Tests would give Australia's cricketers some breathing space between returning from their tour of the Caribbean in June and departing for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September.
Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young said that he expected an announcement soon.
"There are no decisions yet. It's a work in progress, which is going very well," Young said.
"If it can be completed to the satisfaction of everybody involved, the expectation is there will be a formal announcement in Darwin with the Northern Territory Government and ourselves."
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Banglas series looking shaky
By Ben Dorries
February 02, 2008 AUSTRALIA'S top cricketers may get an unexpected winter break, with the home Test series against Bangladesh poised to go on the chopping block.
The two-Test series scheduled to be played in Cairns and Darwin in August is set to be scrapped, with three-one dayers instead to be staged in Darwin.
The Top End series, which Australia has previously contested against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, has run at an enormous loss and left a black hole in Cricket Australia coffers.
This year's proposed Test series would have clashed with the Olympic Games in Beijing and it is understood there would have been no television coverage, with Channel 9 refusing to show the series.
Cricket Australia has been locked in talks with its Bangladesh counterpart, but doubts remain about how the Test series can be postponed.
Home boards have obligations under the International Cricket Council's future tours program, and Australia's schedule is so jam-packed during the next two years that the series would be almost impossible to re-schedule.
Cricket officials have indicated the Test series will almost certainly be canned, with the Northern Territory Government set to make an announcement as early as next week.
The postponement of the Tests would give Australia's cricketers some breathing space between returning from their tour of the Caribbean in June and departing for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September.
Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young said that he expected an announcement soon.
"There are no decisions yet. It's a work in progress, which is going very well," Young said.
"If it can be completed to the satisfaction of everybody involved, the expectation is there will be a formal announcement in Darwin with the Northern Territory Government and ourselves."
howardj
International Coach
When you get paid huge amounts of money, you have to expect to work for it and be exhausted from time to time.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
On a serious note I don't you will be able to get coverage on the radio, as ABC radio (Grandstand) has coverage of the Olympics.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
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pasag
RTDAS
Yeah money is the thing that has always been primarily on their collective minds, but depends on who you ask as to whether or not that is a good thing. The board has always been like this throughout history and it's tightness especially in the years preceding WSC is well documented (putting up players in squalor during tours of India to save money etc). I suppose from another perspective is a need for the financial stability of the game in the country and ensuring its long term success.
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Its clear its not to do with australias' packed schedule that reason is not given.
The icc 10 year plan would have slotted the test series for august.
Maybe they will play bangladesh at the start of a season in tests,like they did with srilanka earlier this year.
Whenever they play them it will be a financial loss,its the same weight every country has.
Also they are always going to struggle to get some one to cover it.
Fox does have a few channels so they could cover it.
Last time channel 9 and the abc covered it.
I think when it comes down to it its all about timing and the timing isn't right.
The icc 10 year plan would have slotted the test series for august.
Maybe they will play bangladesh at the start of a season in tests,like they did with srilanka earlier this year.
Whenever they play them it will be a financial loss,its the same weight every country has.
Also they are always going to struggle to get some one to cover it.
Fox does have a few channels so they could cover it.
Last time channel 9 and the abc covered it.
I think when it comes down to it its all about timing and the timing isn't right.
Yes you can. Australia is a traditional and powerful cricket nation and Bangladesh is a nothing cricket nation. Bangladesh should consider themselves lucky they are even playing test cricket. They certainly don't deserve to be. Therefore they should pay the price and have to change.
But this probably won't happen because India and Pakistan will go into bat for them.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
I like to point out that they also played Test series against India last season. Tests against India are going to raise more money then matches against Australia. There no way they are going to move a Test series against India to play Australia. It would be financial just stupid for them. You can't just say it ok for Australia to pick and choice who and when they play their matches depending on how much money they might. Then not expect Bangladesh to do the same thing.
But in reality they were never asked to change their schedule, as the guys at CA didn't think that forward in planning. Australia have reached this problem due to playing a 7 match ODIs series against India and that 3 match ODI series against NZ, as well as their extented version of their tri series. If it wasn't for these three series they could quite easier worked around the Olympics and Champions Throphy, as well as their other series. They ****ed up no else.
