A new format, a new location, a new direction for Australian One Day cricket.
For those that missed the memo, the domestic one day competition will be held exclusively in NSW this season – and all matches played in a one month time frame. The main goal of CA is not to deprive Australia’s other states of cricket, but letting players get settled into one format of the game, rather than swapping from four-day cricket, to one day to Twenty20 within a week. With the 2015 Cricket World Cup getting ever closer, it’s not a bad idea. As for only playing in Sydney’s outer suburbs, that’s another story.
More important than everything else though, the 2013 Ryobi Cup will give us a really good look at different players’ form, key indicators for this summer’s fantasy Big Bash. It’s a fantastic opportunity to see which young players stand up and which ones fail to take their chances.
For those that missed the memo, the domestic one day competition will be held exclusively in NSW this season – and all matches played in a one month time frame. The main goal of CA is not to deprive Australia’s other states of cricket, but letting players get settled into one format of the game, rather than swapping from four-day cricket, to one day to Twenty20 within a week. With the 2015 Cricket World Cup getting ever closer, it’s not a bad idea. As for only playing in Sydney’s outer suburbs, that’s another story.
More important than everything else though, the 2013 Ryobi Cup will give us a really good look at different players’ form, key indicators for this summer’s fantasy Big Bash. It’s a fantastic opportunity to see which young players stand up and which ones fail to take their chances.