That's actually a smart bet. We love our sport. We have great 'gees'. I'm quietly encouraged! If we can avoid shooting ourselves in the foot, we might just pull it off...
I don't understand, how can the brand grow when there is a blackout of viewing the game here in South Africa, it is all fine and well broadcasting it on a private pay channel, but who can afford the nearly R1000 a month for satellite and R800 for streaming???
Just how is CSA going to drum up support for something the majority of the country will never see on tv? There has to be an end to the madness, sure in India with a population a smidge more than ours, maybe, then again, I kind of expect there is a lot of piracy of media going on, so it is a mute point who owns what in India. Rights maybe are really just words on paper.
More to the point, the waters are so murky and muddy, polluted with bad politics and ego's, what league is what, who owns what, who dictates, who is the dog, who is the tail, and more to the point who is the poor fellow that has to clean up the mess on the rug when this all ends in a disaster... And it will, already heading that way, National players unsold, insane...
I recall there was a huge backlash against pyjama cricket in the late 70's with the "Packer boys" and what they did, how many felt this was the end of cricket, well, somehow cricket, tests that is, survived the colored clothing era, but as with everything, we stupid humans innovate, maybe when we should rather just let it be...We changed the rules of ODi cricket, time and time again, rain rules, 20 of 1 ball, fiasco after fiasco.. Again this lead to a problem Durban, and misunderstanding of tables of figures.. Then in the UK, how many sixes, 4's determined a winner, really???
Examples of trying to make the game fit into a market, and not accepting that maybe we should let the viewer accept the game for what it is, but no, we have to innovate and we did, T20, and that stupid illogical nonsense 100 annoyance..
It is almost cricket 31 days a month, that is just too much, there is no off season, no where for players to take time off, play a lazy off season of 4 day cricket, to work on confidence and techniques away from the eye of the paying viewer..
I wonder has anyone asked the question to any senior cricketer, "Do you think there is just too much cricket and what this is doing to your talent and mental health?? " Does anyone care about the health and wellbeing of trying to produce at 100% for 300 days a year.. It takes a toll.. In very subtle insidious innocent ways... It is a slow process to build up a love to hate what you do, but you are trapped.. What do you do?? The allure of riches is so intoxicating, but dangerous... Loose form and this is magnified and written about by so many, players are human.. We expect miracles 300 days a year.. this is insane.. Please can we go back to having 3 seasons a year, 1 for rugby, 1 for tennis, and one for cricket???
That's actually a smart bet. We love our sport. We have great 'gees'. I'm quietly encouraged! If we can avoid shooting ourselves in the foot, we might just pull it off...
Hi Neil,
I don't understand, how can the brand grow when there is a blackout of viewing the game here in South Africa, it is all fine and well broadcasting it on a private pay channel, but who can afford the nearly R1000 a month for satellite and R800 for streaming???
Just how is CSA going to drum up support for something the majority of the country will never see on tv? There has to be an end to the madness, sure in India with a population a smidge more than ours, maybe, then again, I kind of expect there is a lot of piracy of media going on, so it is a mute point who owns what in India. Rights maybe are really just words on paper.
More to the point, the waters are so murky and muddy, polluted with bad politics and ego's, what league is what, who owns what, who dictates, who is the dog, who is the tail, and more to the point who is the poor fellow that has to clean up the mess on the rug when this all ends in a disaster... And it will, already heading that way, National players unsold, insane...
I recall there was a huge backlash against pyjama cricket in the late 70's with the "Packer boys" and what they did, how many felt this was the end of cricket, well, somehow cricket, tests that is, survived the colored clothing era, but as with everything, we stupid humans innovate, maybe when we should rather just let it be...We changed the rules of ODi cricket, time and time again, rain rules, 20 of 1 ball, fiasco after fiasco.. Again this lead to a problem Durban, and misunderstanding of tables of figures.. Then in the UK, how many sixes, 4's determined a winner, really???
Examples of trying to make the game fit into a market, and not accepting that maybe we should let the viewer accept the game for what it is, but no, we have to innovate and we did, T20, and that stupid illogical nonsense 100 annoyance..
It is almost cricket 31 days a month, that is just too much, there is no off season, no where for players to take time off, play a lazy off season of 4 day cricket, to work on confidence and techniques away from the eye of the paying viewer..
I wonder has anyone asked the question to any senior cricketer, "Do you think there is just too much cricket and what this is doing to your talent and mental health?? " Does anyone care about the health and wellbeing of trying to produce at 100% for 300 days a year.. It takes a toll.. In very subtle insidious innocent ways... It is a slow process to build up a love to hate what you do, but you are trapped.. What do you do?? The allure of riches is so intoxicating, but dangerous... Loose form and this is magnified and written about by so many, players are human.. We expect miracles 300 days a year.. this is insane.. Please can we go back to having 3 seasons a year, 1 for rugby, 1 for tennis, and one for cricket???