New Australian one-day format causing heartaches for domestic teams
Some Australian domestic cricket players aren’t feeling too happy about the format changes for one-day games imposed by Cricket Australia. With the National One-Day Cup tournament to begin next week, two
of the six cricket teams in the competition have yet to practice with the incorporated changes and some of the others are plain frustrated with the way the changes were made.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Australia-c844, who were both a part of the recently concluded Champions League T20, have yet to practice with the changes made to the tournament. There is a decent chance that when Victoria
play Western Australia in their first game on Friday, they will have to learn the new format as they go along.
“Unfortunately there's not a lot we can do about it, so we'll get on with it and we play the Vics here on Friday and that will be our first taste of it,” said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865 all-rounde rAdam Voges to
ESPNcric info.
Voges said that he was one of those cricketers who had voted against the system. He said that despite the fact that 78 per cent of surveyed cricketers had gone against the double-innings one-dayers, it was
frustrating that Cricket Australia had gone ahead and made the changes.
The new format has team's innings split into two groups of overs, one 20 overs and the other 25. Bowlers can only do 12 overs each, and each team can use 12 players rather than 11.
Fortunately for the rest his team, Western Australia, they have already tried the new format in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Malaysia-c2949. Voges was not a part of that group because of his county commitments that ended only a couple of
weeks ago.
However, it is not only the players who seem to have expressed their displeasure at the format. The tournament is less than a week away and the Cricket Australia have yet to find sponsors for it. Never before
in its 41-year history has the tournament being played without a sponsor.
Cricket Australia's general manager of public affairs, Peter Young, attributed the issue to worldwide financial crunch and he seemed to disagree that the change of format had anything to do with it.
“Once the controversy, if you like, took off about the new format we found that the interest seemed to warm up a bit,” said Young.
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