I have always liked Chappelli’s commentary, I thought he was one of Nine’s better commentators when they had the cricket.
He was always honest and I never saw any bias in it.
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DRS is coming to the BBL this season.
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Good move, i like DRS, it adds a bit more drama and excitement on the TV. Id imagine it will be just one use per innings as to not slow it down too much.
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He was the only good thing about it during the latter years when the coverage started to go downhill.
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I liked Richie and Bill too, Mark Taylor was OK, but didn’t really like any of the others.
And the WBBL (for at least the Seven/Fox produced games/finals).
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Finally!
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Great outcome. Hopefully they get rid of the drinks break after the 10th over. It seems to really slow the momentum down.
Something about the Big Bash generally needs to be sped up in my opinion. If it’s going to be on every night - and sometimes multiple games each day - each match really needs to finish within 3 hours.
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Agree, there should be say a 90 second clock between overs to limit the amount of time lost on all the endless field placements they seem to do between overs.
Perhaps there should also be a maximum say 20 metre run up for bowlers to minimise time lost there as well.
Australia Men’s FTP
Afghanistan
August 2024: Three T20s away (venue TBC)
August 2026: One Test and three T20s (northern Australia)
Tests 1, ODIs 0, T20s 6
Bangladesh
March 2027: Two Tests
Tests 2, ODIs 3, T20s 3
England
October 2022: Three T20s (Perth, Canberra)
November 2022: Three ODIs (Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne)
December-January 2025-26: Five-Test Ashes series
November-December 2026: three ODIs and five T20s v England
Tests 10, ODIs 11, T20s 11
India
December-January 2024-25: Five-Test Border-Gavaskar series
October-November 2025: Three ODIs and five T20s
Tests 14, ODIs 6, T20s 13
Ireland
Tests 0, ODIs 3, T20s 1
New Zealand
September 2022: Three ODIs in Cairns
December-January 2026-27: Three Tests
Tests 5, ODIs 3, T20s 6
Pakistan
December 2023: Three Tests
November 2024: Three ODIs and three T20s
Tests 3, ODIs 6, T20s 6
South Africa
December-January 2022-23: Three Tests (Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney)
August 2025: Three ODIs and three T20s (to be played in northern Australia)
Tests 6, ODIs 11, T20s 9
Sri Lanka
Tests 2, ODIs 0, T20s 0
West Indies
October 2022: Two T20s (Gold Coast, Brisbane)
December 2022: Two Tests (Perth, Adelaide)
January 2024: Two Tests
February 2024: Three ODIs and three T20s
Tests 6, ODIs 6, T20s 8
Zimbabwe
August 2022: Three ODIs in Townsville
Tests 0, ODIs 3, T20s 0
Australia Women’s FTP
2022-23
January: Three ODIs* v Pakistan (Brisbane, Sydney) and three T20s v Pakistan (Sydney, Hobart, Canberra)
2023-24
September-October: Three ODIs* and three T20s v West Indies
January-February: Multi-format series v South Africa: one Test, three ODIs* and three T20s
2024-25
December: Three ODIs* v India.
January-February: Multi-format Ashes series against England. One Test, three ODIs and three T20s
2025-26
January-February: Multi-format series v India: one Test, three ODIs and three T20s
February-March: Commonwealth Games – Victoria
** indicates ICC Women’s Championship ODIs*
https://twitter.com/cricketcomau/status/1559800017501966336?s=20&t=HKt2K3-fLY2C0VM22woODw
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They should shorten the competition by a couple of months too 
I’m all for BBL but it does drag on way too long, should really take place after all the Test Cricket is done with each team playing each other Once IMO.
Interesting to see the power of the BCCI: in 2027 Australia will finish the Sydney Test against NZ and then during the BBL fly over to India to play 5 Tests in January-February, before returning home in March to play Bangladesh in 2 Tests (which would be over quickly let’s be honest).
I think too much cricket is better than not enough, particularly at a time of year when there isn’t much else to watch on free to air, other than some tennis.
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Summer 2025/26 starts in August due to the Comm games
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I can’t see how that will make a big difference given the Comm games are in regional VIC, where there isn’t any BBL/international cricket.
If anything, the schedule is starting earlier to accommodate for the Men’s T20 World Cup being held in February-March rather than the Comm Games.
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Australia remains in India until December when the Test series start against Pakistan after the Men’s ODI WC
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The BBL International Draft was held tonight in Melbourne. The first “platinum” round of picks went as follows:
Round 2:
Round 3:
Round 4:
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