You won’t have a competition if other privatised leagues around the world take our talent. Nobody wants to watch 1st grade players from Melbourne & Sydney play each other.
That’s not what’s happening. Yes it happened last year because of Covid but don’t be a fool for crying out loud. Most exciting game genuine cricket fans watched last year was the game the Heat had to pull together local cult figures.
Also in Australia there isn’t a culture of wealthy people buying sports teams without generating a profit. You see that with Uber successful billionaires in other countries who use their ownership as a hobby or way to have fun. There will be no extra money generated by the comp becoming privatised. The issue with global cricket is that privatisation from governing bodies mean the game is becoming unrecognisable. Also Big bash is a major funder of state cricket systems and the national game. Big Bash is not this nations cricketing priority.
Only 4 domestic players in our squad haven’t played for Australia or Australia A in the last 18 months in all formats. The two lowest in stature are Xavier Bartlett (one of the best young bowlers in the country) who is a shoe in to be in the 11 and James Bazley who isn’t that low in stature. Go look at all the squads and there are a number of high stature players who play for there state in various formats. If you can’t recognise them than you are a casual. Casuals are the reasoning for tonight’s ‘failure’.
Like all sports have, Cricket is in a youth transition stage where a lot of players aren’t recognisable to the casual. Last year made that worse. Whilst good players, these lower stature players coincide with the fact the state system whilst a good product it isn’t engaging to the same audience as the big bash.
Scheduling is the only thing that can fix the big bash cause at the minute we only really have access to Afghani’s, middle tier and t20 oriented Englishman and West Indians (who seem to have fallen out of favour). Add to that we don’t have the top tier talent of domestic players either. However the Big Bash is notoriously synonymous with Summer. Point blank the International game is more important than our domestic competition and these young domestic players are gonna have to figure out a way to become more skilled, more consistent and produce a better product in order to improve the overall quality of cricket. Privatisation won’t fix this and in a 8 team domestic comp you can’t afford to have a million internationals. I would love for T20’s to be wiped off the international calendar in order to spread out Test and ODI scheduling in order for these leagues to thrive. Reality is it won’t.
PRIVATISATION WON’T FIX A THING when Australians have fallen into a culture of sitting at home with the broadcast on cause that experience has developed so much. Leagues and competitions in Australia have a history and results of people just not showing up to watch sport. It’s in our supposed Australian DNA but the reality of the fact is the Big Bash is such a shit product cause it has 0! ambience or atmosphere in dead fucken stadiums. Point blank. It’s why heaps of sports in Australia are slowly dying and you can point the finger at that. The comps don’t care cause money comes from the TV not the crowds. The reality is a crowd is part of the product and eventually you get to the point where the sport is dead like Union cause everyone is watching from home until they stop watching cause it’s boring as shit. It’s happened with State cricket, Soccer, union and it will eventually happen in League.
So many reasons this product is potentially failing but if you dip your foot in each issue and change it, the fabric of the product that was so successful the first time around is gone.
