Australia vice-captain David Warner has declared the players are prepared to forego a home Ashes series to preserve the fixed revenue-percentage model at the heart of the dispute between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association. He also said players would turn to domestic Twenty20 tournaments if pushed out of contract.
In a blunt riposte to the threat of the CA chief executive James Sutherland that players will find themselves unemployed if the ACA did not accept the outline of the board’s current pay offer and return to the bargaining table, Warner told The Age that all players were united in rejecting attempts to break up the foundation of the current MOU.
Were 1/83 and the end of 20 overs the Duckworth Lewis par score was 39, but due to the fact we did not bat at least 20 overs it was declared a no result.
Read an interesting article today about the England vs South Africa game at the 1992 World Cup where due to a rain delay South Africa had to score 22 runs from one ball.
What I didn’t realise about that was that there was actually a reserve day to allow for the game to be replayed if it was washed out. But Channel 9 refused and demanded there be a result that day.
Clearly the 20 over rule is an issue. However the argument against this is that the target goes up as more wickets fall. From what I have seen we could have lost 3 more wickets and not scored any runs during the 4 overs and still won if the rain came after the 20th over was bowled. However if the match was shortened to 20 overs due to the rain and we went back out we only needed to face one ball to win as we would have already passed the target - which doesn’t really make any sense.
Southee blitzed them early then it all fell apart. Kiwis were bullish about their prospects pre-tournament but that’s an embarrassing way for them to bow out. They were unfortunate against us - had us on toast before the heavens opened up but they weren’t up to it most of the time.
What happens if it rains tonight? We will end up with on 3 points (same as Bangladesh) without a NRR. Do the Bangers go through in that scenario?