Australia

[Cicjose]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/8/9/australia-slip-to-fourth-in-odi-rankings


lowest rank in 3 years and also it becomes our lowest ever!  ;D

[pyronerd]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/8/9/australia-slip-to-fourth-in-odi-rankings


lowest rank in 3 years and also it becomes our lowest ever!  ;D

I fail to see your joy in this

[KoopKicka]

Serves us right for playing spuds and the selectors wearing light-blue tinted glasses. ::)

[CrowsFan]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/8/9/australia-slip-to-fourth-in-odi-rankings


lowest rank in 3 years and also it becomes our lowest ever!  ;D

I fail to see your joy in this

Yeah how is that something you can be happy with??

[roo boys!]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/8/9/australia-slip-to-fourth-in-odi-rankings


lowest rank in 3 years and also it becomes our lowest ever!  ;D

I fail to see your joy in this

Yeah how is that something you can be happy with??

Fairly sure Cicj wants a complete re-build/re-structure of the system...

[Capper]

i ant to know how Troy Coolly still has a job???

We got him after we lost the ashes and from then he hasnt performed and has just kept on getting higher up the rankings. What dirt has he got on one of the board members. Mcdermott was the best we have had for a while

[Cicjose]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/8/17/governance

Cricket Australia is to seek three independent Directors following an historic CA Extraordinary General Meeting decision today to modernise Australian cricket’s governance.

The EGM voted to replace CA’s historic, state-based Board of 14 Directors with a new, nine-person Board with three independent Directors and one each appointed by the six State Associations.

The six State Association appointed Directors will be: Wally Edwards, John Bannon, Earl Eddings, Dr Harrry Harinath, Michael Kasprowicz and Tony Harrison.

a step in the right direction!  :)

[BB67th]

Finally. Now we can get rid of the NSW dominance in the team

[Cicjose]

http://www.throng.com.au/2012/08/foxtel-and-nine-to-broadcast-the-icc-cricket-world-cup-until-2015/

FOX SPORTS and the NINE NETWORK have today announced a broadcast partnership with ESPN STAR Sports to provide LIVE television coverage of the world’s premier cricket events from 2012 to 2015, culminating in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand.

The rights deal with ESS encompasses every major ICC tournament from September’s ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka, through to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

FOX SPORTS will provide LIVE coverage of each tournament during the three-year agreement, including every match of the 2012 and 2014 ICC World T20 events, plus every match in the 2013 Champions Trophy and ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Channel Nine will bring free-to-air viewers the action from all the big games in the 2012 and 2014 World T20 tournaments and again for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 on home soil.

[fidou]

Finally. Now we can get rid of the NSW dominance in the team

Its the one thing in Australian culture that NSW has over Victorians selection into the Australian cricket team. NSW players seem to waltz into a baggy green while its the opposite in Vic and the other states of austlalia.
Ive been frustrated by this for 30 years especially being brought up in Tassie when it took Boony 5 years to get into the team. Tubby Taylor 4 sheild games and Slater got a gig when nobody had ever heard of him. Austlalian cricket is littered with players that have never played for Australia - Jamie Siddons, Jamie Cox and even Lehman took forever to get in.
And now I have to put up with NSW supporters living in the ACT and I'm surrounded by them.

[McRooster]

Michael Clarke named as Captain of the ICC team of the year (only Australian to make it)  :o

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket/michael-clarke-named-skipper-of-icc-test-team-of-the-year-2012/story-e6frfg8o-1226461826010

[PowerBug]

Looked at the schedule for this summer, we are ripped off. >:( Last year Adelaide got a Test match, and like heaps of ODI's, this season we've been ripped of everything, nearly. >:(

22nd - 26th November: Test vs South Africa (One of the 6 played, 3 vs RSA, 3 vs SL)
13th January: ODI vs Sri Lanka (One of 5 played)
No ODI vs West Indies: Canberra get an ODI of all places.

And in the domestic comp, our Big Bash matches:
13 December: vs Heat (That will be good, Roach, Watson, Vettori, Christian hopefully all playing)
23rd December: Really?? Gay time
27th December: Not much better than the 2 days before Christmas ::)


Add to that they've stripped the tri-Series, which was pretty decent last season. ::)

[CrowsFan]

Tell me what tassie has been given before complaining about Adelaide being ripped off ;)

[PowerBug]

Tell me what tassie has been given before complaining about Adelaide being ripped off ;)

do you get to see the West Indies and South Africa? If you do it's already better than us. We had Sri Lanka last season, every week they seemed to be in Adelaide lol.

[Cicjose]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-australia-2012/engine/current/match/571149.html