Cardiff's Mickey Mouse ground gets another Ashes Test

[Scaly piscine]

England news: Edgbaston misses out on 2013 Ashes | England Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

FFS. Why ECB? Why?

 

[Jacknife]

They still owe loads of cash from this years games to the ECB, apart from that it's one of the worst pitches for England to play on, especially if your after results.
I still can't get over that Leeds can't even afford to exercise their right to stage Ashes Tests, still feeling the effect of that Pakistan Australia game last year.

 

[Howe_zat]

Few thoughts:

Really don't get what's so great about Cardiff. Also don't get how they can afford to keep outbidding everyone when they keep losing huge amounts of money every time an international goes over there.

Also amused by Cricinfo not bothering to put in the names of the grounds for Cardiff and Durham, because no-one really knows what they'll be called in two or four years.

I knew Headingley wouldn't be bidding, but that still doesn't stop it hurting a bit that there'll be hardly any test cricket there over the next few years. Maybe even none. Worrying too, as where else is the money coming from?

Nice to see TB get an Ashes Test in both series. One of my favourite grounds.

Lord's gets way too many. I could understand them safeguarding one Test a year there, but two? While everyone else scraps around for the leftovers?

Hopefully the Test Championship they're running can spread it around a bit.

 

[Scaly piscine]

There's not supposed to be any of that bidding nonsense any more. They go for packages or something. Cardiff went for the 'Bronze Package' if I remember rightly. Then the Test matches and other international fixtures are allocated on that basis.

Edit: I guess that Bronze Package was for a particular season.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...es-cricket-test-match-in-2015-91466-29469914/

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh **** me they've got the T20 finals day in 2012 as well. What an absolute shambles that will be.

Maybe there is some bidding still involved, or backhanders. Whatever.

 

[superkingdave]

Edgbaston has T20 finals 4 years in a row...did no-one else bid? Wouldn't mind seeing it somewhere like the Oval one year

2013 Ashes looks great, 2015 not so much

 

[marc71178]

To be fair, it is pretty central and has reasonable transport links.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

This has probably been commented on before, but which spectacular genius came up with the idea that NZ and Sri Lanka should both tour England twice with 2 years between them?

 

[Burgey]

Durham is ordinary too tbf.

 

[benchmark00]

Every ground in England is Mickey Mouse postage stamp ****.

Log some villiages and play on a real sized ground, ****s.

 

[Burgey]

Every ground in England is Mickey Mouse postage stamp ****.

Log some villiages and play on a real sized ground, ****s.

This.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yep, we really need to learn how to build a ring of concrete that looks like a car park, and make sure it's half empty for every match.

Woo.

 

[benchmark00]

lol half empty.

 

[MW1304]

Australians have to overcompensate for certain failings by building these massive ugly stadiums.

Its called a cricket ground ****s.

 

[Furball]

This.

Come on, the Gabba and 7/8ths of the SCG have been utterly ruined by recent development. The MCG only gets away with it because of the sheer scale of the place, and I'll bet that the redevelopment at Adelaide wrecks the charm of the ground.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Come on, the Gabba and 7/8ths of the SCG have been utterly ruined by recent development. The MCG only gets away with it because of the sheer scale of the place, and I'll bet that the redevelopment at Adelaide wrecks the charm of the ground.

You can't really expect history or charm in Australia though. Now that England have suddenly become good at sport Australia's only reason for existence is to pad out our lesser freeview channels with cheap soaps.

 

[Scaly piscine]

England news: MCC and Glamorgan explore Test switch | England Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

So basically the only Tests they want in future are the big ones like The Ashes so they can serve up a game that is like watching a traditional subcontinental Test with the few hundred fans replaced with sheep and some ****ty weather thrown in.

 

[Cabinet96]

Bit disappointed with that. Would like to go to a couple of Champions Trophy games at Lords.

 

[Burgey]

England news: MCC and Glamorgan explore Test switch | England Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

So basically the only Tests they want in future are the big ones like The Ashes so they can serve up a game that is like watching a traditional subcontinental Test with the few hundred fans replaced with sheep and some ****ty weather thrown in.

Sounds like most test matches in England.

 

[hazsa19]

"Several other venues, many of them vying with something approaching desperation for the raft of international fixtures Cardiff have been granted, could be forgiven for asking what Glamorgan has done to earn such a high profile and easily marketed fixture"

So true. Cardiff is so far behind almost every English ground in almost every department. It's unreal.