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Australia Off Season 2013 thread.

theegyptian

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Tymal Mills coming out to play some grade cricket for university of NSW this year. Just about the quickest bowler in english cricket. Interesting to see how he goes.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Spikey said:
Why Warner walked

The reason David Warner walked out of his long-time club Eastern Suburbs? We're told he didn't want to pay annual fees … of just over $500. There has been some political turmoil at the club, with a player-driven ticket, headed by legendary ABC caller Jim Maxwell, taking control at last Sunday's annual general meeting. Ironically, Maxwell's sports broadcasting colleague at Auntie, Easts life member David Morrow, was on the other ticket. Just to make it crystal clear, there is no animosity between the pair over the new direction of the club.




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Do the likes of Warner actually play for their clubs at all?
 
outbreak

outbreak

First Class Debutant
reading the article on manuka oval, can someone explain why ACT would have been kicked out previously because other states felt threatened? how could the other states just kick a team out if they thought they were too good?
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Spikey said:
stupid rule that serves australian cricket no purpose might be abolished

Officials ponder rule change to attract players
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Yeah, absolutely. I understand limiting overseas players to a certain number by team; that's logical. But telling players they have to either play as local players or not at all if they're able to play as local players just discriminates against players who may wish to play as local players down the track, which is arse-about-face. If WA want to play Hogan as their overseas player and he takes 100 wickets @ 10 he might just decide he wouldn't mind playing as a local again so he can push for Australian selection afterall, as an example. I just really don't get how you can say Botha is allowed to play but Robson isn't.
 
Cabinet96

Cabinet96

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, the fact that he can't even play as an overseas is ******** to say the least.

Why do we see so few overseas players in the Shield and Ryobi Cup anyway? Botha is the only one I can think of recently.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Cabinet96 said:
Yeah, the fact that he can't even play as an overseas is ******** to say the least.

Why do we see so few overseas players in the Shield and Ryobi Cup anyway? Botha is the only one I can think of recently.
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Just with the way Australian cricket works; there so few spots available with just six teams that it's seen as a bit of a faux-pas to give them away to players unless they're of genuine international quality. And of course if they are of international quality then they'll typically be busy playing international cricket.

Younis Khan had a dig somewhat recently too ftr. Andy Flower if you go back a bit further. All for South Australia.
 
Cabinet96

Cabinet96

Hall of Fame Member
Prince EWS said:
Just with the way Australian cricket works; there so few spots available with just six teams that it's seen as a bit of a faux-pas to give them away to players unless they're of genuine international quality. And of course if they are of international quality then they'll typically be busy playing international cricket.

Younis Khan had a dig somewhat recently too ftr. Andy Flower if you go back a bit further. All for South Australia.
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Yeah, I guess the Australian season season only really shares an off season with England, whereas England shares its season with nearly every off season. Suppose fringe international players can play a higher standard of club cricket in Australia than they would in England as well, so getting a pro contract with a state isn't as important.
 
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