Cricket Special Report: History and Structure of Australian Domestic Cricket (Part 5)
(Continuation of Part 4’s discussion regarding the cricketing attributes comprised with-in the domestic structure of a country and Australian Domestic Cricket Structures and History)
On the other hand, one has the example of Aussie veteran left hand dasher Matthew Hayden who made his debut at 23 years of age against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in 1994, but due to his extremely unexpectedly poor performance, he was sent back to domestic structure for
another good three years. And once he was able to regain his cricketing form and refine his natural batting power-play talent.
He was allowed or selected to play his second international test match of his career, after spending three long years of hard-work.
Honestly speaking, all world-class cricketing national teams such as England, South Africa, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, Australia itself and some Asian national cricket teams who have a hint of professionalism or grace, sends an out-of-form bowler or batsman back to the
domestic cricket arena, to resolve their issues and shortcomings.
Not to forget, the fact that even if the cricketer at point is a world-class player of the game, and has great cricketing credentials, he or she will be forced to play the domestic level till the time the players playing power-play’s potential hasn’t been
fully achieved.
The Australian’s have made such a strong, competitive and challenging domestic structure that the effort and assets spent on the domestic arena becomes evident once their international cricketing credentials are studied or looked upon.
One of the reasons for their consolidated domestic structure is the mere fact the long historically known in-house tournaments and series, they hold to make their cricket and cricketer more interested, tamed and profound towards the games.
The huge domestic cricket set-up of Australia comprises of the following major teams, which are namely, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844. These six teams are the back-bone of Aussie international cricketing
success.
All international cricketers and superstars from the country have played for one of the six domestic leagues listed above. The Australian domestic cricket teams have a very strong and competent internal structure within themselves, which allows them to filter
the best of the best cricketers in the country.
From this highly delicate and institutionalise filtering process, only the best among the six teams make it to the international arena. This also is one of the reasons why Aussie international cricketer are of a certain age by the time they make it to the
international cricket, as they have to prove their excessively tested cricketing credentials.
These domestic cricket teams of Australian in-house cricket are allowed to develop their skills and refine their cricketing talents by the cricket academies ran by them. By the way, these academies are looked after or run by Australian senior and former
international world-class superstars.
Not to mention, that each cricket domestic team has its own cricket associations, which allows them to practice and develop the internal structure of these local teams. As mentioned in the earlier parts of this article, that the Aussies have a history with
the sport of cricket for over 200 years, thus, all the domestic local cricket teams have had cricket associations which arranges matches and tournaments among themselves, and these local encounters also include Trophies and championships.
The respective encounters between the domestic cricket teams of Australia which are known to the international arena are namely, Sheffield Shield, which is played every year since 1892. Ryobi One-Day Cup is played in the limited or 50-over format of the
international arena. T20 Big Bash is the domestic 20-over version of the game, and then one has the women’s league which includes Women’s National Cricket League; the league is played in the 50-over version of the game, and theT20 Women’s National Cricket
League, which is played in the 20 over version of the game.
To conclude this effort of bettor.com to summarise the domestic cricket structure of Australia, one should understand that their domestic cricket is the main reason for their successful international cricketing career, and the fact that through a systemised
way, they select and groom talents and mind sets.
One can only hope for the best for the Australian domestic cricket as it has produced one of the all time cricketing greats known to the world arena.
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