Friday, January 05, 2007

Proposed changes for the next Ashes series

There are suggestions that there should be a handicapping system for the next Ashes series so that England can be competitive. Some of the suggestions include:

  • All Australian batsmen have to bat in the opposite way to their normal batting. Eg. Right-handed batmen bat left-handed.
  • While England are fielding, the one bounce, one hand rule will apply.
  • In a move to particularly target the likes of Andrew Symonds, during Australian innings’ the “six and out” rule will apply.
  • Australia will be limited to bowling their ‘real’ bowlers to 20 overs an innings. The rest of the innings will be bowled by either:

    • A bowling machine

    • The wicket keeper

    • The Australian batsmen

    • Billy Bowden

    • Billy Lawry’s pigeons

  • England will start each of their innings with a score of 100.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The only problem with your wonderful suggestions is that I think the poms might still struggle! Then again, perhaps they can cart Bill's pigeons for six!

Anonymous said...

It must be fun to be an Aussie in England!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Good idea, but I don't think you've gone far enough, after all:

+ I think we should be fair and allow England 2 hands for two bounces too
+ Since most of Australia's batsmen can bowl, it shouldn't be an issue, even Gilly bowls right-arm fast. Besides, can the poms survive the first 80 overs?
+ Even with the extra 100 runs this time round England would have lost 4-0