How Can We Make The BBL Great Again?

It's not exactly fair to say the Big Bash League is in crisis just yet but the golden goose of Cricket Australia needs some love and attention to get it back to its former glory.

How do we get the BBL back to the pinnacle? We've devised our five step plan to make the Big Bash great again.

Fans were enraged at the umpires almost all the way though this year's Big Bash season and the simplest solution is to implement DRS.

We don't want incorrect decisions ruining any games and this is the best way to negate that. It might be costly to deliver this at every stadium but the price far outweighs the potential benefits.

It also creates that little bit of extra drama for every game and who doesn't love that?

This might get a few people offside but changing the rule to make a wide a free hit would make the BBL exponentially more interesting.

Boundaries are what the fans love the most about the Big Bash and this gives players the opportunity to clear pickets with greater regularity. 

Let's be honest; T20 is hit and giggle anyway, why not make it more exciting? 

For a sport that bills itself as non-stop action, the strategical time-out has been one of the worst innovations in the competition's history.

Let's face it; if a cricketer cannot look at the scoreboard and determine whether or not they need to lift the tempo, consolidate at the crease or start swinging for the fences then they can't be helped.

Seriously, scrap the time-out.

The schedule for the BBL is broken and is one of the issues that needs fixing heading into the next campaign.

The game is marketed towards kids, this means the tournament should conclude before the school holidays are finished. 

Three months for the season is simply too long. Cricket Australia should be looking at tightening the schedule and utilising double and triple headers where ever possible.

The last point seems the most obvious one, but it seems to have been forgotten by Cricket Australia.

It seems we have a revolving door of superstar cricketers that come down under to play a handful of games before taking their talents elsewhere. 

If we loosened the salary cap restrictions and ensured teams bring in the gun players for the entirety of the tournament not only will the BBL be a much healthier competition but attendances and viewership will no doubt sky-rocket as a result.