why calls for shane warne comeback should be taken seriously...

finally something happened during 'the asses'... not necessarily on-field... that caught yours truly eye...

calls for shane warne comeback...

some fans have started a campaign to call him back to save ashes...

now the obvious and natural reaction is to dismiss it as stupid over-reaction without caring a glance... but if you scratch beneath this 'stupid move' you might find something concerning...

for once this is fans, the most important yet often overlooked insignificant something, way of telling the board running cricket that they have lost faith in the way they are managing team and to be precise... talent...

of late cricket australia is like a house on fire where every incident or failure on field requires nothing short of maniac moves and reactions... and it is not a surprise that australian team has seen numerous chops and changes that would make even bangladesh proud...

its a statement on the functioning of so called 'world class system'... that forces an injured opener, in katich, to play in first place... thereby admitting they don't have any alternative in their supposedly best domestic structure in the world...

so why not call warne instead then...?

it seems cricket australia are just not sure what they want to do or who their next best men for the job are... so with each failure there must be a scape goat to be found and necessarily sacrificed just to show something is done...

best examples are the dropping of hilfenhaus after just one below par test... when he was the most impressive oz bowler in india...

dropping hauritz after series in india where even the spinner of the caliber of shane warne has found it difficult to either contain or take wickets...

this 'chop and change' at the drop of hat policy has obviously led to so much insecurity in the team that players are not sure whether they will be playing next test or not... how their performances will be evaluated... instead on focusing on the job at hand...

and yet... at the same time they expect the fans to just observe the show like mute spectators sitting on the sidelines...

so rather than dismissing shane warne comeback campaign without caring a glance... cricket australia or for that matter any cricket board must look at why and what prompted fans, their biggest stake holders, to 'stupidly' demand such thing in first place...

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cricket australia owes me some beer...

cricket australia has confirmed that they, from next summer onwards, will try out split-innings one day games in their domestic cricket... but it won't be two t20 games played back to back...

"One of the things that's come back as the feedback from fans and also from a television audience perspective is that by having a split innings, after the dinner break, no matter, you will get to see both teams bat in the evening. That is something that people who might be going to the game after work or coming home after work see as being a very significant plus for this format."

well here at sp... i did a post on september 2009 proposing exactly the same... how splitting odi innings can work... this is what i proposed then...

so if teamA scores say 180/5 in first 25 overs... the innings should be called off automatically and the opposition teamB steps in and if say they score160/4 after their first innings of 25 overs the teamA should resume their innings from 180/5 score onwards...

needless to say my vote goes for this trial... rather than left to die slow death if not dead already... one day cricket needs some innovations very urgently for if not for this format many boards would have closed the shop many moons ago...

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Confessions of regretful minds...

We have finally succeeded in getting confessional statement from Cricket Australia which goes like this...

To all cricket fans around world...

we finally admit that we were stupid, plain dumb and devoid of any thing which can be associated with wisdom when we decided to not offer captaincy to Shane Warne.

For rest of our lives we will never be able to find answer of the fact that whether it was our greatest loss or the cricket fans all over world...

if you think, like this blogger, that this should really be the statement from cricket australia...please sign up here as token of respect to Shane Warne...the captain...

those rares who don't agree yet can visit uncle's post at cricket with ball and then can comeback and sign here...

i will make it sure that Uncle of Cricket with Balls (famed for running petitions...) will drop this signage to Cricket Australia's office...

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