2025–26 Australian Domestic Season

[chris.hinton]

Rain affected and Victoria will be happy with how this is going

 

[icyman]

He is asking for better pay for test matches so that players don't chose franchise cricket over country

I think the players will pick and choose the Tests they want to be a part of- no one wants to play v Bangladesh, they would rather play India, South Africa or England here.

 

[honestbharani]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2037407841456369916

Good to see Webster the cheater called out

What is the basis for that though? Are they saying he was not in control of the ball or that he grounded the ball before throwing it up? The latter is perhaps understandable but the former is just untrue.

 

[Prince EWS]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/australia-captain-pat-cummins-voices-the-danger-facing-australian-cricket-1529207

Interesting statement there from Cummins. Proves that even the mighty Aussies are looking to tone down on Test matches, barring the Ashes.

I think it's the fact that they're home Tests outside the usual Australian summer that ticks him off.

But it's hard to square the circle. Fans won't cop a Boxing Day Test against Bangladesh, and you're just not doing your part as part of the international circuit of you refuse to ever host them.

What we'll probably end up with in the not too distant future is players being allowed to skip those Tests. I hate this option, but I don't exactly love the other options either.

 

[icyman]

I think it's the fact that they're home Tests outside the usual Australian summer that ticks him off.

But it's hard to square the circle. Fans won't cop a Boxing Day Test against Bangladesh, and you're just not doing your part as part of the international circuit of you refuse to ever host them.

What we'll probably end up with in the not too distant future is players being allowed to skip those Tests. I hate this option, but I don't exactly love the other options either.

The games are essentially going to be "Prime Ministers XI vs Bangladesh. Can't blame them really.

 

[TheJediBrah]

But it's hard to square the circle. Fans won't cop a Boxing Day Test against Bangladesh

We'd have to pick a team with no bowlers to make it last 5 days







so we have 11 bats and don't get bowled out cheaply twice

 

[Spikey]

What is the basis for that though? Are they saying he was not in control of the ball or that he grounded the ball before throwing it up? The latter is perhaps understandable but the former is just untrue.

the basis is that he's a cheater

 

[Spikey]

Cricbuzz @cricbuzz·19h

Why? BCCI/IPL experts felt Webster wasn't in full control of his movement when releasing the ball, meaning the catch would be considered illegal under their interpretation of "complete control".

 

[honestbharani]

Cricbuzz @cricbuzz·19h

Why? BCCI/IPL experts felt Webster wasn't in full control of his movement when releasing the ball, meaning the catch would be considered illegal under their interpretation of "complete control".

Haha that seems silly.

 

[Spikey]

it absolutely is not a clean catch and Matthews walking off was stupid. should have stood his ground

 

[Nintendo]

Feels weird having so many seam bowling all-rounders running around recently. Even beyond the test prospects and Edwards and Scott, Sutherland and O'Neill have both made ~400 runs @35 this season in a difficult batting season.

 

[Qlder]

Fergus O'Neil having a pretty good shield final. 3-30 off 23 overs and now an unbeaten 50 batting 7

 

[TheJediBrah]

Cricbuzz @cricbuzz·19h

Why? BCCI/IPL experts felt Webster wasn't in full control of his movement when releasing the ball, meaning the catch would be considered illegal under their interpretation of "complete control".

IMO they've got that backwards. He was clearly in control and if anything the way he released the ball was an impressive display of the control he had.

It was the grounding, if it happened, that is potentially the issue

 

[social]

it absolutely is not a clean catch and Matthews walking off was stupid. should have stood his ground

Oh please, the rule's interpretation is stupid because that's been a clean catch since the beginning of time

Same with the Starc catch and others

 

[Spikey]

Oh please, the rule's interpretation is stupid because that's been a clean catch since the beginning of time

Same with the Starc catch and others

the rule's not really got anything to do with the starc catch though. it's the HGibbs/BStokes rule of celebrating too early and throwing the ball away. of course, in Webster's case, if he held onto the ball until the momentum of his dive had finished and his body was still, one possibility is that he could have slid the ball along the ground and made it an illegal catch, but also the ball could just have come out of his hands when they hit the ground the second time, or something else could have happened that caused him to drop the catch. by throwing the ball away immediately, he's taken away those possibilities.

lets say he was 1 meter from the boundary rope when he threw that ball away, and that his body was almost certain to crash into the ropes. should it be a fair catch because he's thrown the ball in celebration before the body would have hit the ropes?

i think cricket cracking down on this aspect is much better and more understandable than the ball sliding thing.

one of the other examples the IPL has used is this one, where there's clearly no chance that the catch would have been spilled (like Gibbs/Stokes) but the player has thrown the ball ridiculously early while his body is still sliding along the ground

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2037412436501053865

 

[ataraxia]

the rule's not really got anything to do with the starc catch though. it's the HGibbs/BStokes rule of celebrating too early and throwing the ball away. of course, in Webster's case, if he held onto the ball until the momentum of his dive had finished and his body was still, one possibility is that he could have slid the ball along the ground and made it an illegal catch, but also the ball could just have come out of his hands when they hit the ground the second time, or something else could have happened that caused him to drop the catch. by throwing the ball away immediately, he's taken away those possibilities.

lets say he was 1 meter from the boundary rope when he threw that ball away, and that his body was almost certain to crash into the ropes. should it be a fair catch because he's thrown the ball in celebration before the body would have hit the ropes?

i think cricket cracking down on this aspect is much better and more understandable than the ball sliding thing.

one of the other examples the IPL has used is this one, where there's clearly no chance that the catch would have been spilled but the player has thrown the ball ridiculously early while his body is still sliding along the ground

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2037412436501053865

Looking forward to someone not knowing this rule and their teammates scrambling to catch the ball the second time.

 

[Spikey]

Looking forward to someone not knowing this rule and their teammates scrambling to catch the ball the second time.

im probably being harsh but when the Ben Stokes drop happened, the guy at short leg just stood there! it was probably impossible to catch but at least do a dive!

 

[Qlder]

Why is Mitchell Perry bowling? Did he sub out Elliott?

 

[Prince EWS]

Why is Mitchell Perry bowling? Did he sub out Elliott?

Yes.

 

[Spikey]

welcome back Jason Sangha