It’s cricket mate, these are basics of coverage. Heck even Fox joins coverage 5 minutes before the first ball for simulcast women’s/overseas coverage.
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And its unnecessary champ
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Tbh. There already doing a lot to try to fix this. The teams get penalised if the overs don’t get finished within a certain time limit. If they finish within these limits then it’s working.
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Seven can drop it into the news at 6:50
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They have a toss in a lot of sports that we don’t see.
In tests, even ODIs I understand showing the toss and it has a much bigger impact on proceedings. T20 is supposed to be the ‘faster’ version and it’s going in the opposite direction.
Absolutely. “Here’s the winning captain and why they’re batting first…”
I’m unconvinced they are doing a lot tbh. They say they are but it doesn’t seem to actually work
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All they could do is start earlier but I don’t think you will get them playing it any quicker.
It’s no different in any form of the game - slow Over Rates continue to be a massive issue, the game says they’ve done “something”, but they progressively continue to degrade. It’s time they actually draw attention to the issue - put the elapsed innings timer on the scoreboard for short-form cricket and the over rate in Tests, and at the same time start setting targets (there should be enough games to form a reasonable pool to calculate targets from by now).
One of the issues with short-form cricket is that it probably works for the second fielding team to try and drag it out as long as possible - unless you’re going to lop runs off the chase, punishing them is almost meaningless.
The MLB introduced pitch clocks for the 2023 season - it not only reduced the average length of games (in some cases, by a considerable margin) it also reduced the variability in length of games
They even toyed with taking another two seconds out of the clock after one season
I’m fairly sure, at least in Australia, that the over rate is displayed on the big screen during test matches. I can’t speak to the innings timer, but it wouldn’t be hard to show.
What makes the pitch clock work in baseball though is the immediate penalty for violations (an automatic ball if it is caused by the pitcher and an automatic strike if it is caused by the batter). At the moment, the only penalties are points deductions for the Test Championship (which let’s face it, most nations probably don’t care a heap about) monetary fines and the threat of suspensions. The other important point is that teams can only face penalties for slow over rates on test matches if the innings goes beyond 80 overs.
They should look at instituting penalty runs for slow play. If the bowling team is behind on overs and there isn’t a reason for it, it should be 5 penalty runs for every over behind. Same with the batters if they are causing unreasonable delay.
It is shown throughout the whole game.
I believe that’s the case somewhere right?
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Australia claimed the women’s T20 series 2-1, after defeating India by seven wickets in the third and final match at Navi Mumbai overnight. The Aussies restricted the home side to 6/147 from 20 overs, and only lost three wickets of their own during the run chase. Both Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney scored half centuries.
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I think they should stay in western Sydney. Sydney deserves two teams, as does Melbourne.
Maybe they could try different venues in western Sydney, like the Blacktown, Bankstown and Drummoyne venues that have all hosted Shield games before.
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Of the Thunder’s 5 home games this year 2 are in Canberra
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Australian selectors have named the squads for the test and ODI series against West Indies.
Test squad: Pat Cummins (captain), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Renshaw, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc
ODI squad: Steve Smith (captain), Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Lance Morris, Jhye Richardson, Matt Short, Adam Zampa
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He was sentenced to 8 years jail last week, but would appeal against the conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.
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Exciting win by the Sydney Sixers against the Perth Scorchers in Perth, with Moises Henriques hitting a boundary off the last ball to get the win for the men in pink, chasing down 198 off 20 overs.
The game seesawed in the late overs, when Perth got 3 wickets in the penultimate over.
The Sixers then needed 11 off the last 4 balls and Henriques rose to the occasion with a 2, then 6 then another 2 and then a boundary to seal the double chance in the finals.
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I only just saw this on FOX, but it took TWO Super Overs to split India and Afghanistan in their T20 International yesterday.
Both sides scored 212 in their 20 overs, and then both scored 16 in the 1st Super Over.
India scored 11 in the 2nd Super Over and won when they took two Afghan wickets (the maximum allowed in Super Overs) for 1 run.
That is an unusual result.
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Australia won the first test against West Indies in Adelaide today by 10 wickets, and retained the Frank Worrell Trophy. The match ended just before lunch on day 3. Usman Khawaja had to retire hurt when the scores were level, when a Shamar Joseph bouncer clattered into Khawaja’s helmet around the jaw area as he tried to sway out of the line.
Sent in to bat, the Windies were bowled out cheaply in both innings (188 and 120) thanks to brilliant bowling by the Aussie quartet (Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins and Lyon). In particular, Josh Hazlewood took four wickets in the first innings and five in the second innings (including the first four Windies batters) to finish with nine wickets for the match. Of the three new Windies debutants, Shemar Joseph was the standout, taking 5/94 and scoring 36 and 15 runs batting at no.11.
Travis Head made 119 on his home ground and was named player of the match, ahead of Hazlewood.
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The BBL13 team of the tournament, as chosen by the head coaches of the eight teams, was revealed last night.
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