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Prepaid wrote:Solutions not problems Durmast….
Get NZ to invest a few bucks on some decent wickets and venues here in NZ as opposed to putting $30M+ on a rich boys boat race would be a start…
Go and watch the wicket your average high school rep team has to bat on and you can see why we struggle further up-the-chain…
Now you are on to something there PP, a few years ago I hated the idea of school boy cricket being played on anything other than grass tracks, however I have changed my opinion on that after watching my stepson this season, I now believe that all age grade cricket should be played on artificial wickets (including rep tournaments)
He is a third former at the local high school and they have a fairly useful side, the basic technique of the players is outstanding simply because they have always played on tracks with true bounce.
Granted they do not always select the right shot to play but that will come with time, the other thing that struck me is how the dribbly medium pacer is hammered mercilessly because of the true nature of the batting surface, to take wickets on artificial wickets you have to either spin the ball or bang the bloody thing in.
I know it does not please the purist but concrete based artificial tracks the the way to go.
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