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By Will last year, mid-September Leave a comment on this post
The fresh sea air has made me think. Maybe the ICC should be put under pressure for cricket’s ever increasing carbon footprint as a way to persuade them to play less cricket. With the exception of Zimbabwe, and other minnows, I don’t think a host nation should play more than one country in any one season. Stage five or six Tests, six one-dayers and keep it at that instead of three and four-match series involving two countries. The current set-up provides masses of cricket, not all of it as intense or enthralling as the public deserve.Never thought the damned carbon footprint hype could prove useful to cricket, but maybe it can!
Well, something has to be done so that’s my solution. What’s yours?
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First off, congratulations on the new look to the blog! Nice clothes there!
I wouldn’t mind three, five-test series per year/season with about 25-30 limited overs at most.
Come to think of it, sports industry too may be under the scanner in this regard!
Goddamn hippy
It’s not too much travel that is the only problem. What about all the water being used to keep the pitches in good shape? Despite Australia having vast areas of the country in dire drought, and farmers’ wheat crop failures causing a big increase in the price of wheat and flour, some state cricket associations are looking for exemptions to the once-a-week-only watering allowance.
At the SACA they are holding a Water Summit this month to address the problem and at the Gabba they are looking at water tanks. I’m sure the farmers could do with that water.
Perhaps we’ll need to get used to playing on dirt, or fake pitches.
Seems like the Australian airlines are onto it already.
“On the heels of rival, Qantas plants seed to offset footprints” at
Though I’m not sure how they are going to water all these seeds and trees in a drought! Perhaps they haven’t thought that far?
Yes Will I entirely agree.
Notwithstanding environmental issues, too much of anything is a bad thing. Test cricket should be like fine wine, not like cheap bottle of plonk that the ICC and greedy administrators have turned it into. But yes, lets use carbon the footprint to knock all these meanlinless series on the head. Imagine the Pommie team have to travel by ship to NZ this summer!!
Call me an old fart but I sort of liked the old format better.
Playing on dirt or fake pitches? Come on! We should be thinking of new ways to get water we can use, not decide that we can’t have enough and leave it at that. Where’s all the positive thinking that’s made the Australian cricket team great?
By the way, love the new look.
Gee, Marcus, just woken up, have you? I haven’t noticed this positive thinking being used here for any purpose other than to win sporting events and make money out of them so far.
Oh, don’t get me started Rusty. Especially if you’re in the West, like me- extend trading hours? No, that’ll ruin our way of life. Develop the foreshore? Nope, the Swan River’s the envy of every other city in the world, which has to be why our tourism numbers are dropping.
You’re right, we’re way to negative, and stripping pitches of grass to conserve water is just another negative step. Instead of preservation, we should show off some positive thinking- build a recycling plant, pipe water from up North- just show a bit of VISION, for heavens’ sake.
Sorry to go off on a bit of a tangent there.
And I do like the new look very much- but why don’t the posts start right at the top of the page, instead of a third of the way down like they do now?
It’s a simple solution in my opinion; f**k off with the ADHD three Test summers and bring back five (or six!) Tests between the elite members. Is Australia v England the only five game Test Series left?
Yes, I’m all for 5 test series. Makes it more of an arm wrestle and gives a side a chance if they have a bad first test. Also allows the visiting team to acclimatise before the series is decided.
We’ve had two epic 5 Test series in a row as well. One for the ages in terms of close encounters of every kind (2005) and one for sheer determination to inflict the first whitewash since, well, a long time ago.
The arm wrestle as you put it is what intrigues me. That’s cricket.
Just saw that Perth’s dam capacity is over 42% where it was under 38% a week ago, and Sydney’s is over 59% where earlier this year the Australian of the Year was aying that it would be under 20%. So much for “dire drought.”
Marcus, the “dire drought” is not in the cities, but the rather extensive area called “the rest of Australia”. And they have cricket pitches out there, too.
And the price of wheat flour has almost doubled in the past few weeks, something unprecedented til now, (and something I’m sure most cricket fans wouldn’t have noticed). Or at least in the past 6 years. so there really must be a dire drought out there.
Okay Rusty, point taken. But I still think positive measures to mitigate the effects of the drought will have more of an effect than simply saying, “we’re in a drought, therefore let’s just accept that we can’t ever use enough water.”
Getting back to the idea of less travel, wouldn’t that only work if the teams had private planes? If they use public airlines, then surely the flights would still go ahead regardless of whether or not crcicketers are actually on them. Although I do agree that we need more five-test series just on principle.
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