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Other than maria sharapova, let her do what she's doing
Think about cricket fans 😭😭. We're dying here
Now I'm not an expert in these leagues. But i know a lil about the bbl atleast.
I predict the NRL has no relegation? And teams only play in the NRL? I also guess the worst team has first pick in drafts or whatever?
With the BBL, its ridiculous. One year your best players get called up to national teams and you're done for. Its a joke the way cricket leagues are run. Similarly no relegation.
It works in american sports bc there is no promotion or relegation. Can't work in a sport with it. I know the big bash has no more teams than the few that participate and cricket economic model is even worse.
American sports play under one federation. Who do you want enforcing the rules? Uefa? Fifa? The national fa? The national league? Other national sporting authorities? Other European sporting authorities? Other global sporting authorities?
Who's laws do they follow? National? Continental? International? Regional? How do you create an even field when some teams are getting UCL money and dominating local leagues?
Do you make man city give their UCL winnings tk Southampton? How do you account for the Italian tax system?
Again its not possible in football. Not that no financial law is possible, just that the salary cap won't work. Bc the revenue of teams can never be the same.
Barca can spend 40% of their revenue on sporting expenses and so can Cadiz. They just have different revenues.
How do Cadiz get the big revenue? Either outside investment like psg etc or long term European football (nearly impossible and only viable for a couple of clubs in every league).
So the uneven nature will exist so long as:
- Teams play in more than one competition.
- Promotion and relegation exist.
For the old money thing. All profit and the money of capitalists is exploited and the surplus value of labour of the workers. All investors are the same. They can't have money now if they aren't exploiting someone now.
But let's drop this argument, it never goesnto a natural conclusion.
My reply wouldn't post in one go. Jesus I speak too much.
Here's the continuation.
Thing is each of these I could write 6000 words on. All of this requires a lot of talking and has a lot of stakeholders and powers affecting it, cricket is a mess. I genuinely think Saudi coming in is gonna help the sport lol. https://youtu.be/CU77TgMksSU Link to my favourite sports journalist. Incredible writer and researched, really understands admin and the sport. Amazing yt channel.
Ive used the wca report in this point too at places, like the revenue share point. Also scheduling.
- Players use sweat rn, saliva has been reintroduced too. I know of players having used the horse nail strengthener on their nails to affect the ball. Reports and stories of people doing all sorts of things to affect the ball, sandpaper gate too ofc.
Now all of these have issues, especially health and hygiene. Saliva can cause diseases to spread. If we allow some sort of solution that replaces sweat (a major issue was that collecting sweat was annoying, with saliva you always instantly have enough). If you give the umpire a bottle of a sweat mimicking substance, saline solution or smth, that the bowlers can use to shine the ball it eliminates the issue.
- There is no reason cricket doesn't have subs. Other sports started having them and we were left behind and over time just decided to call it tradition.
If both teams have 15 players you need a balanced composition of 15 players. You'll see this issue come up every WC when all fans are arguing about wanting one extra spinner or pacer or whatever else. When both teams have the same number of players you'll always need to find the balance.
Do we go in with 7 bowlers and 8 batters? Can we afford a specialist keeper? A specialist fielder? It only adds to the game, doesn't take away anything. One more strategic element.
This is also very important for injury prevention. Say Lyon gets injured first innings and the aussie pace trio has to bowl out his over too! Can you imagine the physical toll that would take over 5 days!
And don't suggest injury subs they dont work. Players, bowlers in particular are always somewhat injured.
- Move cricket to 2 overs from each end before and change. This is smth I forgot to say in the original comment. Half as many ads and reduce time waste of changing ends and fields so often.
No offense but I hate the t20 is ruining cricket idea. No it isn't. It is cricket. I also dislike the soul of cricket idea. and yes i exclusively watch test cricket myself, plus world cups. OK the occasional t20 too, but barely.
As for Sam Konstas, ofc the media would do that! Hes the first teen to play for aus in forever, they dont play players so young. He's opening! The toughest batting position by far. In a country with no openers.
Beau is at 6-7 the easiest batting position, facing the easiest bowlers at the easiest times. Hes 31 or so and aus have 5 other similar players. Hes a goo d plug and play option pur nothing special.
Konstas took on bumrah, the greatest ever 3 format bowler and the best test bowler atm. With the new ball! On debut! At 19! In AUS!
Alone maybe none of those things would be insane, together they are. Plus he rattled the Indian team, kohli etc fighting a kid was pathetic.
I don't think the jumps are a big deal, they are a fun lil thing, if they change it I don't mind, if they dont I don't care. It'll successfully happen once in like 200 games and be a very cool moment.
- MCC law for no balls.
21.5.1 the bowler’s back foot must land within and not touching the return crease appertaining to his/her stated mode of delivery.
21.5.2 the bowler’s front foot must land with some part of the foot, whether grounded or raised
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on the same side of the imaginary line joining the two middle stumps as the return crease described in 21.5.1, and -
behind the popping crease.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23098100/
Theres a lot of research on it. Even the intro to the first link should give you a basic overview if you're not interested about going in depth.
Basically, bowlers try to maximize stride length without overstepping. This often leads to forcefully “planting” the front foot close to the popping crease.
Also try to land just behind the crease for maximum reach and pace which leads to overstriding, causing hyperextension of the knee. Pcl knee injuries follow.
When bowlers shorten their stride or change delivery angle to avoid overstepping they also risk injury.
- Well first of all I'd like to just scrap Odis, they no longer serve a purpose in the sport. T20s have replaced them. (I dont want to get into the history of it all in an already long reply)
But if they did stay. Field restrictions and powerplays are ridiculous. Ball changes are ridiculous.
We use two new balls in ODI cricket now, and that makes people angry. But we actually used two balls in 50 over cricket always. Because leather won’t dye white correctly as it does with red, the balls are lighter in colour for their natural state. But to make them bright white they have their colour sprayed on.
White balls start harder and swing more than red ones, and after five or so overs are softer and stop swinging. Then as they degrade quicker, they pick up dirt and grass as well. So they stop doing anything at all, you can’t see them, or hit them as far. They are simply not fit for purpose.
Before what would happen is that at one stage in an ODI, the umpires would look at the sad, grey piece of sponge and decide to replace it. Later on they just unofficially changed it around the 35/36 over mark with a ball that was used, but not abused.
So at the end of 2011, the ICC made a decision that still annoys many ODI fans. They abandoned the one new ball and one soiled ball strategy and went with two new balls. Which they had done before.
Now i believe they are changing it back.
I instead want the pink ball used in Odis. Also move Odis to 40 overs.
A. I just talked about balls so let me say they are the most important part of cricket alongside pitches. Maybe second. OK you want pitches to be influenced by local knowledge and culture. But why tf are balls not standardised. We have no clue what is going on with cricket balls.
In 2017 or so kookaburra reinforced their balls seam which made the ball seam more and for longer bringing down batting averages and completely changing the sport, the way people bowled and batted and swlcted players. Some players lost their careers due to it. Kookaburra just did it on their own, no questions no research no accountability.
The ICC need to have their own ball development and research company. We have the same antiquated balls for no reason. We can change the material and have a non leather ball! Why hasn't SG and the BCCI focused on that?!?! We could change anything here and create smth that isn't destroyed in 35 overs. Something that has better bounce. The sky is the limit.
B. Reform the stupid chaotic calendar with dedicated windows. Have distinct international windows each year, alongside divisional structures for all three formats. Have relegation systems. Scheduling windows for ‘Core International Cricket’ – which should be implemented to cover one match per format against all other teams within consistent divisional championships.
C. Have a pathway to test status. Noone knows what they gotta do to get status.
D. Revenue sharing model needs to be changed. A centralised Global Growth and Development Fund – to be established, underpinned by pooled rights model applicable only to Core International Cricket, to fund Core International Cricket and other global initiatives ICC revenue distribution – occurring within minimum and maximum parameters Stronger regulation and accountability – on how distributed money is spent in all countries Player revenue sharing parameters – to be applied in all sanctioned cricket.
70% of the game's revenues are generated across just three months of the year, that 83% of all revenue is shared by three countries, and that revenues generated by bilateral cricket outside the big three constitutes less than 4%. Total player payments across cricket, it says, represent approximately 10% of all cricket revenue.
WCA projects a more optimal calendar (with windows and greater context) could result in an additional USD 246 million revenue for the game annually. It calls for the establishment of minimum and maximum distribution parameters of ICC revenues, giving as an example, "a minimum 2% and maximum 10% for the top 24 countries, and a minimum 10% distribution collectively for countries 25+." That would see the BCCI's share being cut from 38.5% in the current model to 10%.
Players, it says, should also receive a minimum percentage of revenue generated in all sanctioned cricket, across internationals, T20 leagues and ICC events. Another recommendation is the creation of a global growth and development fund, which would go towards sustaining the base level of Core International Cricket for the top 24+ countries. This fund would be built from a percentage of ICC events revenue, T20 leagues and pooled media rights from Core International Cricket - a concept that has been aired before at the ICC but always dismissed.
The issue is the bcci.
E. Archives and access to games. Have an ICC channel where people can subscribe and watch all games from the past. Live stream current games in countries where rights are undervalued or unsold atleast. And access to ICC events. The ICC allows no cricket to be shown and hinders growth. I lobe the way American sports allow you to watch the game atleast. Look at what they did to poor robelinda.
F. Eliminate stupid NOC requirements. Players shouldn't have to need permission from the board to do their job, especially players who aren't even centrally contracted.
G. Global cricket needs to come together with clear leadership to reflect the sport’s changing landscape and prevent fragmentation. The way the shady ass sport is run is terrible.
H. Figure out the league stuff. Player non payments, spot fixing etc. A lot happens beyond the test nations leagues. So not as worried bout the cpl or IPL but a random game in Singapore or Canada is sus.
I. Do smth about sports betting. Also a governments issue so I don't even know where to begin. Atleast work with betting companies to get some insight.
J. Have people be responsible for things. Noone has direct power over anything and noone takes responsibility over anything.
No one is actually in charge of the sport as a genuine custodian of the global game as a whole. Regional interests dominate and lead to short-term decisions. There is no independent leadership. The game is run by the most powerful boards, without any representation from leagues, franchises, players or women.
I say trash the ICC and create smth from scratch. Practically impossible ofc.
Win win situation
McMoth woulda been too easy
The bigger moth is busy in pursuit of the sun these days