Cricket Special Report: History and Structure of Australian Domestic Cricket (Part 4)
(Continuation of Part 3’s discussion regarding the cricketing attributes comprised with-in the domestic structure of a country and Australian Domestic Cricket Structures and History)
Ironically, since the beginning of the world money is an evident element which is important in all spheres of life. And the recent flourishing amount of financial gains in the sport of cricket has driven the attention of all the members of the world cricketing
fraternity. As natural social network of the world functions, by the end of it all, whether its painting, music or sports, it all comes down to the money in it.
On the contrary, to the advantage of domestic cricket structures of countries such as Australia, England, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 and the recent inclusion of IPL for the Indian in the financially stable cricket league fraternity, has brought cricketers of these countries
to the realisation of making the most of their cricket careers.
Unlike world class batsmen and bowlers from the lesser or smaller domestic structures, the bigger and richer domestic cricket structure provide the privilege or leverage to their world class cricketers of the idea of how to make good money, which allows
them to focus on the sport as a profession.
A normal Australian cricket performer is paid an annual amount of 100,000 Australian dollars, which is what an upper middle-class professional makes in a single year. So even if an Australian cricketer is not playing national level cricket, he or she will
still be making money which would be enough to provide him or her, a modest lifestyle. Same is the case with the English and South African domestic cricket structures.
Besides, the immense amount of money given by these major domestic cricketing countries, domestic cricket of these countries also ensures the grooming of their cricketers respectively. Especially, the Australian domestic cricket set-up ensures that the naturally
talented cricketers play in the domestic structure to a certain extent, so that their cricketing sense, temperament, batting technique and foot-work, bowling action and run-up, and several other cricketing aspects are developed to the required international
standards.
That is the reason for the Aussie’s to be such a professional group of cricketers when it comes to international teams, and as a result of this domestic cricket structure one normally witnesses an Aussie to make his international appearance after a certain
age. Unlike http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 who have cricketers making their debuts when the so-called international cricketer is 16 or 17 years of age.
However, some of these exceptionally talented cricketers from the poorer domestic world cricket structures end up being one of the finest world-class cricketers of all time, case in point, Indian Little Master Blaster batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who made his
debut at 16 years of age and at present is the leading run scorer in the international arena.
Likewise, the Australian Domestic set-up does allow the exceptionally talented individuals in the Aussie cricket fraternity the rightly deserved short-cut from playing a certain amount of first-class or local or domestic cricket before joining the big guns.
Australian cricketers such as Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh, both are among the biggest names in the international cricket fraternity of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and the two veteran batsmen made their respective international debuts at 20 years of age.
(To be continued...Part 5)
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