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Team of the Year 2016
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Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
Why? Late September is basically the end of one season and the start of the next. Better than 1st of January which is usually in the middle of an Australian/New Zealand/South African series.
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
Waaaaaahhhhhhh
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Can't believe just one poster has mentioned him - most promising teenager I've ever seen
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Well said. Awful from Jono. Give him se7en
Athlai
Not Terrible
Hey he was in my stats
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He was indeed - my apologies - I should have read back from Coronis' post as well as forward from it
Burgey
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Shut up. You're sleep deprived which is why you're so snarky.
Bijed
International Regular
Cook hasn't actually won 'Captain of the year', has he? Isn't it that he's been selected for the team as an opening bat (rightly so imo, as the period covers his excellent tour of the UAE, his ultimately very good home summer and not his poor tours of Bangladesh and India) and then made captain as out of the two plausible candidates (himself & KW), he's by far the more experienced captain and I'm not sure people especially rate KW's captaincy either?
Bijed
International Regular
Fair enough, though from the perspective of the people compiling the team I'd argue that they couldn't choose Root (or anyone else who hadn't been captain, which would rule out Herath with the cut-off date they used) and I think Cook's W/L ratio was much better than KW's in the period which I'm pretty sure was the basis they would have been using.
So basically, I'm with you in that I wouldn't want Cook but I can see how they may well have made the decision and I don't think it's the worst ever.
The main problem with the team imo is that, as others have pointed out, it's been published 3 months after the period in question ended. Had it been published in early/mid October, we'd probably all be going yeah, fair enough (captaincy probably still a point of contention, though).
Dunno why Smith didn't make the team, really
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listento_me
U19 Captain
The period of September to September is odd. The reason I say this is because unlike European football leagues and in fairness, pretty much most sporting leagues around the world, there is no proper season for cricket. The official start of the English season is about March, for the Asian sides...i don't even know, it starts when ever they have an international to play and for Australia/SA/NZ it is the English winter, their summer. So why pick an arbitrary period, which is what September becomes.
Just having a full calendar year makes more sense and just by looking at the ICC, even their not convinced by the September date as the awards used to take in August at one stage too.
For all the stick FIFA have received recently, they really are a better model when it comes to scheduling things properly. The ICC is just way too hap hazardous.
Anyway that's my little rant on how the awards should be organised, although it wouldn't make much of a difference on picking Ashwin as player of the year but it would provide a better view of who has been a better batsman in 2016, and that's Kohli > Williamson. Cook also wouldn't get put in as captain.
Plus, like I said, Sep to Sep or Aug to Aug as it used to be is just arbitrary. Better to keep it a singular calendar date.
Just having a full calendar year makes more sense and just by looking at the ICC, even their not convinced by the September date as the awards used to take in August at one stage too.
For all the stick FIFA have received recently, they really are a better model when it comes to scheduling things properly. The ICC is just way too hap hazardous.
Anyway that's my little rant on how the awards should be organised, although it wouldn't make much of a difference on picking Ashwin as player of the year but it would provide a better view of who has been a better batsman in 2016, and that's Kohli > Williamson. Cook also wouldn't get put in as captain.
Plus, like I said, Sep to Sep or Aug to Aug as it used to be is just arbitrary. Better to keep it a singular calendar date.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
listento_me
U19 Captain
No it's not. Every team has varying international seasons, there's nothing "close" about it. It would just make sense and be fair for all side if the ICC took into account a calendar year. It's as simple as that.
September is just as arbitrary as the ICCs previous date of August.
Where the hell is the ICCs structure? lol
Gnske
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lets be honest here, even if the English summer is generally a non-event, it should encompass the summers of that year for Australia and England.
Who said anything about January, go from November to November.
Calendar year shouldn't end at the climax of the worst domestic system currently running, just not cricket.