‘Absolute dog breakfast of a sport’: Jimmy Neesham, Scott Styris say Test cricket in hassle

New Zealand cricketers Jimmy Neesham and Scott Styris had been completely crucial of the way in which Test cricket is being affected by dangerous climate and fading gentle after Pakistan’s two-match sequence in opposition to New Zealand resulted in a 0-0 draw after the umpires took the gamers off three overs early on the ultimate day of the second Test.

Cricket authorities are below rising strain to discover a resolution to maximise play in fading gentle, after gamers had been taken from the sector in Test matches in each Sydney and Karachi.

Pakistan had been 9 wickets down, simply 15 runs shy of their goal of 319, with their numbers 10 and 11 surviving 21 balls on the crease. The closing 5 overs of the match had all been bowled by spinners, with all New Zealand’s fielders around the bat.

“Both teams had a chance of winning and we come off the field with 3 overs to go. Exhibit A of why Test cricket is in trouble,” Styris tweeted.

You sit by 4 days of garbage to arrange a genuinely enthralling end then this shit occurs. What an absolute canine’s breakfast of a sport https://t.co/o7vOgbANLK

— Jimmy Neesham (@JimmyNeesh) January 6, 2023

Neesham replied to Styris’s tweet, saying, “You sit through 4 days of rubbish to set up a genuinely enthralling finish then this shit happens. What an absolute dog’s breakfast of a sport.”

In Sydney, the primary three days of Australia’s Test in opposition to South Africa had been affected by poor climate and dangerous gentle.

Consistent rain swept by the Sydney space from early Friday morning and the gaps within the rainfall the place not adequate for floor employees to organize the sector and the match to renew. Shortly after the scheduled tea break, umpires deserted the day’s play.

Steve Waugh, the previous Australia captain, had been crucial of the dearth of play on the opening day of the Test match.

“Test cricket needs to realise there is a lot of competition out there and not using the lights when the players are off for bad light simply doesn’t add up,” he posted on social media on Wednesday.

Mark Waugh too felt that gentle was adequate for the match to be continued. “I’d like to change the rules. I’m saying once the lights are on we stay on, simple as that,” Waugh mentioned on Fox Cricket.

Australian Cricketers’ Association chief govt Todd Greenberg on Friday revealed that Australia’s gamers are desirous to develop a ball that may enable Test cricket to proceed throughout fading gentle. Greenberg mentioned will discuss to Cricket Australia about the potential for a three way partnership.
Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed performs a reverse sweep shot through the fifth day of the second check cricket match between Pakistan and New Zealand, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

“I want to talk to them about it and say what else can we do?” Greenberg advised the Herald and The Age on the SCG on Friday.

“Who can we accomplice with? How will we work this out? Because what I’m studying rapidly is the ICC aren’t doing these items. There’s no-one in cricket doing these items, so there’s a void.

“And within the absence of another person doing it, I’m going to name it and say, nicely, we should always do it. Let’s do it.