Improving the domestic system

[Googly]

Umpire school has to be pretty easy. You just have a data base of 10 000 decisions, and the student has to press the out or not out button whilst he's watching the tape.

[Googly]

I once watched a school game where the bowler almost bowled a yorker and the batsman jammed his bat down and it came straight out the middle, went past the bowler to the boundary for 4. We all looked in disbelief as the umpires finger was up. He'd decided it was LBW because he knew his side was about to lose.
The worst umpire in the history of the game was Father Nixon from St George's. I'm not sure there was a team that ever scored more than about 20 against them when he was at his worst.

[ZIMDOGGY]

Imagine if this discussion was an actual ZC brainstorming session. Forgive me, but in general, Zim organizations lack innovation and fresh ideas. The next step for this forum is to get into the faces of ZC somehow. That is why having new people on here might get us closer to the decision makers. Even it means them adopting some of the ideas here and give no credit, it will still be fine if they implement a few cause the clueless folk there need all the consulting as possible to keep the game alive.

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You're right, but they won't listen. Guys at the top of ZC monitor this forum from time to time, but nothing much ever changes. I'd love to send my post from the first page with the 4 points, but they probably wouldn't listen. Plus, they'd know my email address and name and I don't fancy that

Time to time?
I think they hawkishly sit on this forum like a pedo watching a school play.

Hi Frank/Tavenga.

[Googly]

Umpire school has to be pretty easy. You just have a data base of 10 000 decisions, and the student has to press the out or not out button whilst he's watching the tape.

If they could hook that machine up to 10 000 volts if you pressed the wrong button it would make the learning curve fairly steep.

[secretzimbo]

- Formats. It's nice that we are playing a lot of Logan Cup games this season, and I think players do improve and develop a lot from playing 4-day games. However the cost of this is really high. If we are only playing 1 or 2 Tests per year, is this quantity of domestic red ball cricket a luxury, rather than a necessity? By contrast this season we have 1 week of Domestic T20 scheduled....in a T20WC qualifier year!!! We need to play a huge amount more in the shortest format. There has been talk of having the NPL as a T20 Winter League. That might be nice. But the franchises need to play more too. If you want to have it in quick one-week bursts, then just have two or three T20 tournaments per season instead of one. Maybe one right at the beginning of the season, one over Christmas, and one right at the end. Spring T20, Christmas T20, Autumn T20 or whatever. Then have the Logan fixtures in the windows between.

Just had a ridiculous conversation with someone this morning on this very issue. His opinion was that its great we play all 4-day stuff because its 'true' cricket.

So dated.

We must be the only major country where teenage players in this day and age dream of playing a Test Vs Bangladesh rather than getting an IPL contract or playing in a World Cup.

I absolutely love red ball cricket and Test cricket too, but we have to realise the realities; we are scheduled to play a maximum of 2 Tests this calendar year. Why is 90% of our domestic season spent playing red ball cricket?

It's a dated mindset and the entire world has moved on. We are being left behind and we have to modernise.

[Googly]

I'm sure it's an ICC requirement isn't it? There's probably no stipulation for white ball so they do the red ball stuff and then play too little white ball.

[secretzimbo]

I'm sure it's an ICC requirement isn't it? There's probably no stipulation for white ball so they do the red ball stuff and then play too little white ball.

I'm not sure it is anymore, think it might have changed. Ireland haven't played any domestic First Class games since 2019, and no sign they are planning to this season either, and they don't seem to have had their funding cut or anything.

[Googly]

So we could double or treble our white ball stuff?

[secretzimbo]

Yep.

It makes no sense, as staging a 4-day match obviously costs more than a T20 as well.

There's just genuinely a mindset throughout the game here that red ball cricket is superior and everything else is an afterthought. We are stuck in the 20th century and it annoys me to no end.

[secretzimbo]

Yep.

It makes no sense, as staging a 4-day match obviously costs more than a T20 as well.

There's just genuinely a mindset throughout the game here that red ball cricket is superior and everything else is an afterthought. We are stuck in the 20th century and it annoys me to no end.

I'm pretty sure when they appointed Rajput we were told that it was because he is a T20 specialist and his main objective was to make us a force in that format.

And yet here we are scheduling 1 week of T20 cricket per year