Pakistani Tour of New Zealand, Dec-Feb 2010/11

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Oh, maybe not so boring after all then. Rhythm and vines in Gisbourne is it?

Queenstown's where it's at for New Years

 

[Chewie]

Yup RnV

 

[afridi118]

to clear all the confusions third t20 is for flood relif people thats what i heard long time back like in august or when ever the schedule was announced and i thin 6th odi as well

what happened to Zimbabwe who offered to trip Pakistan.

 

[icyman]

Zimbabwe's trip has been postponed as the dates clashed with a festival. The Govt of Pakistan could not offer protection during the said period and thus the trip has been postponed.

 

[afridi118]

thanks dude

 

[CG123]

The reason for the tour is probably due to the fact that we only have one tour coming to NZ this summer.

Normally we'd have two tours, one kind of big one (5 ODIs, 2 T20s, 2/3 tests), and one smaller one (3 ODIs, 1 T20, 1/2 tests).

NZC will get most of their revenue from T20s, followed by ODIs.

By having 3 T20s that means they still have the amount they'll normally have with two tours, hence not miss out on the money.

With the six ODIs it's a mixture of them heading into the world cup, and because the want the extra revenue. Normally we'd maybe play 8 ODIs in our summer, but by playing 6 they're not going to lose out on much.

Test cricket in NZ makes very little money (less people and cheaper tickets), so by having less of them it won't effect NZCs revenue much, and heading into the world cup they probably decided to have a 6th ODI ahead of a 3rd test.

That's just how I see it anyway, the 3 T20s will be more or less purely for revenue purposes.

 

[pcfan123]

IIRC the last PAK series in NZ started at about noon NZ time, will it be the same again or is it going back to normal times?

 

[riz7khan12]

IIRC the last PAK series in NZ started at about noon NZ time, will it be the same again or is it going back to normal times?

only for tests, for the T20's it'll either start at 2pm or 4pm and the ODI's will start at 2pm.

 

[CG123]

Our domestic T20 matches start here at 5pm without lights, so they can get people in after work.

I guess that's what they're trying to do with the final session of the test matches, get that to start around 5pm, so people can come down for two hours after work. Or people can take the afternoon of work and watch the whole thing, and children can come down after school and watch the final one and a half - two sessions.

 

[icyman]

what happened to Zimbabwe who offered to trip Pakistan.

thanks dude

The Zimbabwe cricket union had given the dates from December 8 to 19 to tour Pakistan but unfortunately when the PCB approached the government for security clearance the authorities didn't give the clearance since the month of Muharram fell in this period," the source said.

You can read more here

 

[CG123]

How does that relate to my point that there's only one tour coming to NZ this summer?

 

[icyman]

Am sorry, must have multi-quoted the wrong person by mistake.

 

[Chewie]

Our domestic T20 matches start here at 5pm without lights, so they can get people in after work.

I guess that's what they're trying to do with the final session of the test matches, get that to start around 5pm, so people can come down for two hours after work. Or people can take the afternoon of work and watch the whole thing, and children can come down after school and watch the final one and a half - two sessions.

School will be over

But they'll start later because it's light here until about 7 in summer

 

[CG123]

My bad, normally we have a tour here when the world cup's on this year, so for that tour they'll want people to come down after school, but you're right, for this tour over xmas no one will be at school.

 

[pcfan123]

Am I remembering incorrectly? I thought there were a lot of light issues in that Pak series due to the late start, and even when India came last time and they had late starts to make it better TV viewing in India.

Thats why I was hoping for a normal 9am start.