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Should NZ be stripped of Test match, ODI and 20/20 International status?

Strip status?


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I reckon this 3 test series - Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane (let's try giving the Gabba a later test) - vs NZ is a goer.

Seriously.

A new trophy - the ANZAC Cup - modelled after the Lone Pine. Hell, even get some prize money behind it all.

Hype it up, promote it, grow it. Within 10-20 years, it'll be like the Bledisloe Cup for NZ/Aust rivalry and the Lions Tour (only every 4 years).

Get the Black caps vs the Baggy Greens...hard as nails, tough as boots, brothers in arms playing Test match cricket. I reckon it would soon rival the Ashes and Border-Gavaskar fixtures.
 

Timbo

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Don't we play the Gabba test so early because of Brisbane's unreliable midsummer weather though?
 

Meth

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I reckon this 3 test series - Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane (let's try giving the Gabba a later test) - vs NZ is a goer.

Seriously.

A new trophy - the ANZAC Cup - modelled after the Lone Pine. Hell, even get some prize money behind it all.

Hype it up, promote it, grow it. Within 10-20 years, it'll be like the Bledisloe Cup for NZ/Aust rivalry and the Lions Tour (only every 4 years).

Get the Black caps vs the Baggy Greens...hard as nails, tough as boots, brothers in arms playing Test match cricket. I reckon it would soon rival the Ashes and Border-Gavaskar fixtures.

As far away as Australia are from their glory days at the moment, I don't think NZ are going to challenge Australia in a Test series any time soon. We can spring a surprise in ODI's or T20.
 

flippikat

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How about if we win a T20 series against Australia, we get an expansion team in the Big Bash? 2 expansion teams if we whitewash the series.

What d'ya say, Cricket Australia? ;-)
 

TheParraboy

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How about if we win a T20 series against Australia, we get an expansion team in the Big Bash? 2 expansion teams if we whitewash the series.

What d'ya say, Cricket Australia? ;-)


not a bad idea really

Auckland Asteroids?

Christchurch Cannonballs?
 

JJ

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It would in some ways be good to have a BBL team, but at the end of the day I don't think that would help our domestic cricket - they really should redevelop our 20:20 league, it's decent but essentially just the same domestic teams - the product is good, but as usual here nobody gives a rats arse about cricket in any form except internationals (and then not tests)
 

Pete Cash

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Why would either nation want it ?

Australian domestic cricket purpose is to produce Australian cricketers and any increase in profits would just go towards protecting test cricket in Australia. So if a nz side actually brought money to the table it would be going to cricket Australia
 

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