2010-11 Australian cricket schedule

CricAus has this morning announced the schedule for next summer.

KFC Twenty20 International
31 October 2010 Australia v Sri Lanka Perth

Commonwealth Bank Series
3 November 2010 Australia v Sri Lanka Melbourne
5 November 2010 Australia v Sri Lanka Sydney
7 November 2010 Australia v Sri Lanka Brisbane

3 mobile Ashes Series 2010-11
25 – 29 November 2010 Australia v England Brisbane
3 – 7 December 2010 Australia v England Adelaide
16 – 20 December 2010 Australia v England Perth
26 – 30 December 2010 Australia v England Melbourne
3 – 7 January 2011 Australia v England Sydney

KFC Twenty20 International
12 January 2011 Australia v England Adelaide
14 January 2011 Australia v England Melbourne

Commonwealth Bank Series
16 January 2011 Australia v England Melbourne
21 January 2011 Australia v England Hobart
23 January 2011 Australia v England Sydney
26 January 2011 Australia v England Adelaide
30 January 2011 Australia v England Brisbane
2 February 2011 Australia v England Sydney
6 February 2011 Australia v England Perth

Tour matches
22 October 2010 Queensland v Sri Lanka Brisbane
24 October 2010 New South Wales v Sri Lanka Sydney
27 October 2010 (T20) New South Wales v Sri Lanka Sydney

5 – 7 November 2010 Western Australia v England Perth
11 – 13 November 2010 South Australia v England Adelaide
17 – 20 November 2010 Australia A v England Hobart
10 – 12 December 2010 Victoria v England Melbourne
10 January 2011 PM’s XI v England Canberra

Plenty of Test cricket then....

Would have liked a sixth Test in there somewhere.

The 7 match ODI series v England on top of 2 ODIs following 5 Tests means 14 matches between the sides.

Too much ODI cricket.
Too much cricket we'll forget within a few days (until it comes up on the Trivia thread).

The Ashes is the only real thing to look forward to in that schedule.

DJ_Smerk wrote:Too much ODI cricket.
Too much cricket we'll forget within a few days (until it comes up on the Trivia thread).
The Ashes is the only real thing to look forward to in that schedule.

Fixed.

SCG Test starts on Monday January 3rd. Given the extreme scabbiness of the NSW govt, there's a possibility that a replacement public holiday due to NYD being a Saturday WON'T be declared in the state. This would mean the Test is played on a Monday-Friday basis with no public holidays. Marketing genius.

Edit: In fact, as things stand, that is correct.

Always found it interesting that Australia stick to the same grounds in the same order for the Ashes for a few years now. In 86/7 I think Perth/Adelaide was the other way around.

JKLever wrote:Always found it interesting that Australia stick to the same grounds in the same order for the Ashes for a few years now. In 86/7 I think Perth/Adelaide was the other way around.

It is scheduled in a counter clockwise direction so the barmy army and our captain don't get lost

Test cricket finishes too early in the Aus summer. Jamodi's are played through the majority of the school holidays. Hardly a great way to convince youngsters that test cricket is still the number 1 form of the game.

Trev in not being able to watch the tests coz he's too busy cruising the schools shocker . . .

SL are coming all the way for some Pyjama cricket alone ! Surely they have earnt their stripes for at least a couple of tests.

too busy playing average booster games on flat tracks v BanIndia, I guess . . .

Josh Carney wrote:SL are coming all the way for some Pyjama cricket alone ! Surely they have earnt their stripes for at least a couple of tests.

You can get planes out of Sri Lanka these days, it doesn't take that long

Anyone notice what's missing from the schedule for next summer?

Spoiler:

Probably postponed/delayed/forgotten because the Gilly starts on Feb 19 in Dhaka ...less than a week after we finish playing the poms

Is it too much to hope for that it's been abandoned as far as being an annual contest?

Play it in Darwin and Cairns during the AFL's mid winter break like we did with the other minnows

Sage. It'd be a timely reminder for teh Ashes tickets going on sale too.

Which makes me wonder... Should we organise another forum get-together during the Ashes?

invite Vikas and Bucky to the Melbourne test?

The thought crossed my mind.

Zat wrote:Would have liked a sixth Test in there somewhere.

Cric Tas lobbied for a sixth test at Bellerive but were told to get farked. All we got was a crappy Aus 'A' game in November that will prolly get washed out.

There is an ODI against SL in Melbourne in early November with CA hoping to cash in on the success of the spring carnival. There might be a few people needing to be thrown out as they recover from the cup and warm up for the Oaks for the following day.

Henry wrote:Test cricket finishes too early in the Aus summer. Jamodi's are played through the majority of the school holidays. Hardly a great way to convince youngsters that test cricket is still the number 1 form of the game.

Yes, although the World Cup following straight afterwards does throw a spanner in the works.

Despite that they still could have had the Ashes finishing a week or so later had they shown some restraint and scheduled a 5 match one-day series (not a gluttonous 7-match affair). England could even have played an extra tour match had they done that.

I think the best schedule we had was back in the days when the World Series was played between the tests throughout the summer. Obviously that's not feasible now with test and one-day teams being so different, but it did make the season flow well.

As for starting the Sydney test on a Monday (which may or may not be a public holiday) - what a joke! Cricket Australia probably think they can schedule an Ashes match at any old time and it will still sell out every day, but they shouldn't take the public for granted.

This clash with the World Cup reminds me that 2014/15 is going to be a nightmare for scheduling with the tournament being played down under.

The Ashes cycle is due be shifted back one year, but it won't take effect until 2016.

We got around this last time (in 1991/2) by playing the World Cup a year later. Is there anything stopping Australia and New Zealand requesting they host the 2015 World Cup in November and December of that year? After all, the first World Cup outside of England was played in November, not Feberuary/March.

So will 70,000 pissed Melbournites turn up to a JAMODI the day after the Melbourne Cup?