What was the attendance like?
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Wow, never thought Pakistan would win that easily.
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Attendance was 21,398.
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Pakistan have clearly shown they can safely host cricket - as much as I donāt expect it, they shouldnāt budge.
At a minimum, you canāt have Pakistan needing to travel outside their country during a tournament their hosting, and they shouldnāt lose the rights to host the finals if India qualify. India should have to play those matches in Pakistan or take the forfeit.
Also - the champions trophy sucks and should return to being the Knockout format.
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I honestly donāt know why we even need to play this tournament. Just another Micky Mouse tournament
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Wonder what Ian Chappell would have done!
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Well theres Day 1 of Triple Mās ācolourā content sorted
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Squad: Pat Cummins (captain), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc
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Was just listening to the news on 2sm it mentioned the test cricket teams news but nothing about the deciding ODI in Perth. It almost feels like domestic cricket now. So yes ODI has lost its gloss. People who are casual listeners or watchers wonāt know its on.
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I suspect this is a WBBL recordā¦
Lizelle Lee hit 150 not out off 75 balls in the Hobart Hurricanes total of 3/203 this morning.
In reply, the Perth Scorchers only managed 131 all out.
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It is a new WBBL record, and the fifth highest individual score in all womenās T20 matches.
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The thing with Lee is whilst she is capable and has produced performances like this, there is a fair chance that the next game will will get out cheap going for a slog
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You can say the same about almost any other cricketer, in particular, Glenn Maxwell.
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I suppose part of that disguises how old the news bulletin is? If you have a āliveā score thatās wrong, or talk in the future tense about the match they couldnāt replay the same thing the next hour?
Itās amusing that all the talk for years was that test cricket was dying - but itās now basically the only thing alive. T20s have dropped off as well, both the BBL and the internationals all have fallen away.
It would serve Fox to do something about this - say if Seven got to simulcast game 1 of any ODI/T20 series - extra content for Seven, but Fox and CA would gain more mindshare for these series.
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They are not the only regional network that does thisā¦ Iāve heard the same bulletin with the same āliveā score three hours in a row on evenings on GNFM.
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Clearly treating this series as an afterthought. Yeah they have bigger fish to fry with the test series coming but please. And i bet they are charging an arm and a leg for a ticket to watch a pretty much Australian A team
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AUS all out 140.
Shouldnāt be enough.
But you never know with Pakistan.
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Sydney Sixers were also all out 140 chasing 159 against the Thunder in the WBBL this afternoon.
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I almost think the future of international cricket is to be solely Tests outside of ICC tournaments. Bilateral short form cricket seems to be pretty much on itās last legs too (both ODI and T20).
Iād have something like the following on a rotating 3 year basis:
-1st year- ICC World Cup (similar format to now, 50 overs per side)
-2nd year- ICC T20 World Cup (similar format to now)
-3rd year- ICC Champions Trophy (this is where Iād do something a bit different, to make it something unique as itās pretty much a nothing tournament at the moment- Iād give it a ādouble T20ā format- where each team comes out twice for 20 overs (similar to test cricket but with only 20 overs per side per inning).
As far as hosting Tests go, I would aim for Australia to host 7 tests per summer, 1 major series of 4 or 5 tests against a high-drawing rival, and a minor series of 2 or 3 tests against a lower-drawing side.
The BBL is also struggling to regain traction after the golden period about a decade ago, I almost feel like it is hurt by having such a big overlap with the test season.
A bold idea of mine to fix this- make the BBL a purely January tournament (with Boxing Day as the last day of a test series). The New Years test often ends up weather-affected anyway with Sydneyās typical weather in January- I would move the Sydney test to the start of the summer when the weather tends to be a bit drier.
Start the BBL on NYE and play 2 games every day (this would get the 40 game season done in 3 weeks) culminating in a finals series ending the last Sunday night of school holidays. This would avoid the feeling that often comes about towards the end of the tournament that it has been dragging on for too long.
Itās hard to have tournaments without having bilateral series to underpin that, otherwise countries will have no guide or basis of national selection, particularly when domestic level comps only happen once a year.
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