jo172 wrote:Mr Beefy wrote:DOC wrote:Crowd in Brisbane terrible, again.
That is where the day/night experiment should have been. Per capita, ours is the best attended and should have been left alone.
Guaranteed success in Adelaide, so it will be easier to sell into other venues. Doesn't it rain every evening in Brisbane?
Weather prevents you playing day/night in Brisbane in early November.
Timezone prevents you playing it in Perth.
No real point doing it for Boxing Day/New Years (particularly as it would clash with Big Bash).
Leaves Adelaide and Hobart as their only options really
What's with the Perth time zone issue?
Answer - Don't start the ******* summer of cricket in the first week of November....EVER! It's crazy. They squeeze in 6 Tests in 9 weeks, 4 One Dayers in 8 days v India, along with some bollocks International T20's, the Big Bullshit...... it's greed, just greed.
Not sure why, I don't imagine the Weet Bix, Commonwealth Bank, VB Cricket Australia folks have any $$$ issues.
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