Australian rotation (resting) policy

If anyone is unhappy with Australia rotating players there is a petition at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/stacrp/petition.html Please sign it if you are interested, if not just ignore. If you know other people who might be interested please let them know.

I guess it must make the opposition feel a little crap, if the aussies flog their opponents with their best players out of the side. Although it gives the other players strength to do well when their best players are injured.

This is grumpy old men gone berserk. Check out the petition, there's three signatures, two of which only went on to bag out the petition and the other one is on acid.

Rotate the players and especially the bowlers, it keeps them fresh, and it is only ODI cricket which does not matter.

As long as they do not do it in Test cricket.

lol. How...weird.

Agree with Archie. They simply play too much one day stuff and at the intensity they play it at there's a mental fatgiue as much as anything, they need to be kept fit for the real thing.

To much cricket what a joke. For example three games in a week would be a maximum of thirty overs. That is not a whole lot of bowling when you compare it to a test match. This is what these guys get payed for (and quite well). Batters would also see more time in the middle in test matches. If these players can't handle it then I'm sure somebody in the domestic comp would love the oportunity. While I'm on the subject how many players are rested from tests? None because the powers that be still consider it important. I cant believe how some people are so blind. We have a rotation policy and people get upset so we change the name of it to resting and everyone is fine with that. I only started the petition over a week ago so of course there isn't many signatures. Also I find people who can be totally tricked by a simple name change probably have trouble understanding the point I am trying to make.

Its been almost a full month since the petition has been up and there's still only 5 signatures

In your little speech, it says that you are perfectly happy to have domestic players come into the side if there is too much cricket for players to handle yet you don't want the players to rest. if you come back plz explain.

Thought it was pretty simple. if players can't handle an international schedule than lets get some that can.

How about a reality check.

Test cricketers don't grow on trees, you don't just go out and 'get some'.

They must. Thats the whole idea of the petition. When players want a day off we just go out and "get some" that day.

The poms won the Ashes mainly through the efforts of Freddie Flintoff yeah - he was the difference in the end. Now they've made him captain he's bowling a hundred overs a day and he's broke down. How bloody stupid is that.

Players of the calibre of Flintoff, and of Lee and McGrath and Gilchrist and Ponting are thoroughbreds, you don't treat them like work mules. If we want the best players available we either play less meaningless pyjama cricket or we rest some of them occasionally.

I would nearly count the days between matches as rest wouldn't you? How long is it since they have played a game ?

Not nearly as bad as a Merewether former part-time 5th grader playing for NSW - that is a sad indictment on the game. Some expert said it doesn't matter who wins 20/20 games. If so, why keep score? What about the real cricketer omitted for him?

Up to six, CA must be getting a little worried