Post by fromthesharkstand on Oct 30, 2019 10:05:17 GMT
Question for the ECB, Why is the standard of Australian club cricket so much better than English?
Luke Wells is struggling for form in Australia where when he played for Brighton and Hove in the summer he hit consecutive 150s. Steve Smith played a whole year when he was banned, for his club Sutherland CC his stats were worse playing club cricket than in the Ashes. Looking at the structure of the two countries it is clear to see where the ECB lacks. In Australia u14s are playing two day games and are learning how to churn out good bowling and score 100s, where our u14s are playing t20s where you retire at 20. English clubs 3XI are playing 40 over games where Australian club 3XI are playing two day games. The English club structure is clearly why most of our county and test batsmen don't score regular fighting 100s but easy on the eye 20's. The standard of Aussie club cricket also gives their domestic and international cricketers a good standard to practice at. D'arcy Short and Shane Watson both played 1st grade cricket on the weekend. Two international cricketers. D'arcy got 5 and Watson got 4. D'arcy played for Durham in the summer and hit 483 runs in the blast and an average of 49. Watson just a year ago hit a 100 in the IPL final to win it for the Chenial Super Kings. Australian Club cricket is challenging for top players and also builds test cricketers, the English system isn't. ECB sort it out. It's not good enough.
Luke Wells is struggling for form in Australia where when he played for Brighton and Hove in the summer he hit consecutive 150s. Steve Smith played a whole year when he was banned, for his club Sutherland CC his stats were worse playing club cricket than in the Ashes. Looking at the structure of the two countries it is clear to see where the ECB lacks. In Australia u14s are playing two day games and are learning how to churn out good bowling and score 100s, where our u14s are playing t20s where you retire at 20. English clubs 3XI are playing 40 over games where Australian club 3XI are playing two day games. The English club structure is clearly why most of our county and test batsmen don't score regular fighting 100s but easy on the eye 20's. The standard of Aussie club cricket also gives their domestic and international cricketers a good standard to practice at. D'arcy Short and Shane Watson both played 1st grade cricket on the weekend. Two international cricketers. D'arcy got 5 and Watson got 4. D'arcy played for Durham in the summer and hit 483 runs in the blast and an average of 49. Watson just a year ago hit a 100 in the IPL final to win it for the Chenial Super Kings. Australian Club cricket is challenging for top players and also builds test cricketers, the English system isn't. ECB sort it out. It's not good enough.
