Bevab
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I went to take a nap and the dude’s blocked. What on earth did he do in a couple of hours?!
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I went to take a nap and the dude’s blocked. What on earth did he do in a couple of hours?!
CerealKiller
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Replied to my post with just a dot ".", then started swearing at me when I deleted it
Bevab
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Replied to my post with just a dot ".", then started swearing at me when I deleted it
Most verbose England fan.
Starc: 'Tests always far above the white-ball cricket'
"I don't think playing three formats is something I can [continue] for a long period of time moving forward"
www.espncricinfo.com
Need more players like him!
CerealKiller
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This luxury isn't available to every country's players, sadly.Starc: 'Tests always far above the white-ball cricket'
"I don't think playing three formats is something I can [continue] for a long period of time moving forward"
Need more players like him!
Available to most players in the nations that play test cricket I would think.
CerealKiller
Staff Member
I don't think so. He lives in Australia, and will retire there. Compare that to a country like Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Why would players from economically bankrupt countries not want to maximise their earnings and have some financial security, instead of romanticising a 5-day format which pays them peanuts in comparison to T20 franchises?
I get that. Though money shouldnt be everything. In the end its up to the player to make the decision. I dont mean a young cricketer give up on opportunities to earn some money in the fast food leagues, initially.
Many guys over the years made a considerable fortune playing in the global fast food leagues and yet they never decided to call it quits and focus on red ball cricket. Primarily because theyre lazy to play test matches, you start a diet on fried chicken and pizza and its difficult to return to eating healthy. Starc is now 32 and have got what? Probably 5 more years most to play, he made his fortune in the IPL and BBL and is settling down playing the hardest format of the game, that is a cricketer!
CerealKiller
Staff Member
Again, calling Starc a "real cricketer" is just unfair to cricketers who don't have the luxury of having a rich board and security after retirement.
Bevab
Staff Member
Believing that someone could have made a fortune playing in the BBL back then says all that you know of the league.
Also calling Starc someone who is settling down to play test cricket when he has
a)more tests than T20Is
b)made his test debut before his T20I debut
again shows how much you know of him or cricket in general.
Youre aware that the first international league started circa 2008? Before that guys played cricket professionally from Aus, SA,NZ, WI, Pak, India,SL. By your logic the guys outside of Australia wouldve live an unsecured life after playing, with zero to nothing to show? Is that what you are saying?
The WI guys like Narine, Pollard and Gayle they never quit IPL and decided to play red ball cricket only, and surely they made a fortune before they turned 30yrs. AB villers turned his back on his country to make money for RCB!
Bevab
Staff Member
I find it hilarious when white ball specialists are shoehorned into a mythical mercenaries label that simply is untrue.
Did you read the article at all? He didnt decided to this today, he last featured in a fast food league like 7 or so years ago.
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For most of the guys outside of India its somewhat true though.
Bevab
Staff Member
I remember a post from you sometime ago slandering Tendulkar for refusing to provide a few bats to Winston Benjamin, a former West Indies international. If he’s living such a charmed life that is secure why would he have to plead for bats every year from a cricketer in another nation?
Bevab
Staff Member
You’re proving my point though. Starc’s not playing these ‘fast food leagues’ because he can afford not to. CA’s contract is affordable enough for him to skip on these leagues for one and also because if he did he wouldn’t be fit enough to fulfil his contractual obligations as he is an injury prone pacer with a notorious history of dropping off in performances the longer a test series goes by.
To put it in short, Starc could have either compromised his test career and made a living as a white ball specialist who played these leagues or he could have played more tests and skipped on these leagues. He could afford the latter because he had a good contract behind him that would have been jeopardised if he risked trying to earn more money via more franchise games. Funnily enough there’s another left-arm pacer from New Zealand (a nation you hate coincidentally) that you could have picked on as the contrary.
It’s also important to note that Starc’s career took off when these leagues were not prevalent. Back then there was just two main leagues and whatever the rest of the boards were trying with their domestic sides masquerading as franchises. If he were to make the same start today as a young player (or anyone else for that matter) I imagine the choice would be not so easy.
