The Hundred Cricket
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Utter b
ks in my opinion.
We have a perfectly good T20 competition in this country. One that had record attendances this year. Attendances which have been increasing year on year for the last 7 or 8 years I believe! A simple solution would have been to sell a T20 Blast package to a terrestrial channel along with some ODI games and a test or two. Work with Sky for the latter.
Instead we have a format played by nobody else. We have 5 or 10 ball 'overs' as they are simpler to understand. 100 balls as it is 'simpler'. We have non-playing players!!
To facilitate the competition, 4 day cricket will be shoved further into the beginning and end of the season, when we need to produce better quality test match players.
The 50 over competition will run alongside the hundred ball comp. However, it is effectively being downgraded to a 2nd XI tournament as a result, at a time when England are world champions.
There will be little county cricket during the school holidays. I believe the Blast will take place before them too, which will no doubt put attendances down so the ECB can point at a decline and say the Hundred is a great success. So surely kids can attend Hundred games instead? Well for many in the SW, SE & NE, you will end up spending more time travelling to a game than at it. It is infact taking access to the game away from these areas.
I cannot understand any of it. I for one will not be attending any games, or watching it. The only positive is having something which resembles cricket on TV. The names are garbage. The kits aren't much better either. Every centrally contracted player is too scared to speak out against their employer and you can't blame anyone else for securing their futures financially. Just such a shame it is for this steaming pile of ****.
The Hundred. An answer to a question nobody asked. Rant over.
ks in my opinion. We have a perfectly good T20 competition in this country. One that had record attendances this year. Attendances which have been increasing year on year for the last 7 or 8 years I believe! A simple solution would have been to sell a T20 Blast package to a terrestrial channel along with some ODI games and a test or two. Work with Sky for the latter.
Instead we have a format played by nobody else. We have 5 or 10 ball 'overs' as they are simpler to understand. 100 balls as it is 'simpler'. We have non-playing players!!
To facilitate the competition, 4 day cricket will be shoved further into the beginning and end of the season, when we need to produce better quality test match players.
The 50 over competition will run alongside the hundred ball comp. However, it is effectively being downgraded to a 2nd XI tournament as a result, at a time when England are world champions.
There will be little county cricket during the school holidays. I believe the Blast will take place before them too, which will no doubt put attendances down so the ECB can point at a decline and say the Hundred is a great success. So surely kids can attend Hundred games instead? Well for many in the SW, SE & NE, you will end up spending more time travelling to a game than at it. It is infact taking access to the game away from these areas.
I cannot understand any of it. I for one will not be attending any games, or watching it. The only positive is having something which resembles cricket on TV. The names are garbage. The kits aren't much better either. Every centrally contracted player is too scared to speak out against their employer and you can't blame anyone else for securing their futures financially. Just such a shame it is for this steaming pile of ****.
The Hundred. An answer to a question nobody asked. Rant over.
monarodom said:
Utter bks in my opinion.
We have a perfectly good T20 competition in this country. One that had record attendances this year. Attendances which have been increasing year on year for the last 7 or 8 years I believe! A simple solution would have been to sell a T20 Blast package to a terrestrial channel along with some ODI games and a test or two. Work with Sky for the latter.
Instead we have a format played by nobody else. We have 5 or 10 ball 'overs' as they are simpler to understand. 100 balls as it is 'simpler'. We have non-playing players!!
To facilitate the competition, 4 day cricket will be shoved further into the beginning and end of the season, when we need to produce better quality test match players.
The 50 over competition will run alongside the hundred ball comp. However, it is effectively being downgraded to a 2nd XI tournament as a result, at a time when England are world champions.
There will be little county cricket during the school holidays. I believe the Blast will take place before them too, which will no doubt put attendances down so the ECB can point at a decline and say the Hundred is a great success. So surely kids can attend Hundred games instead? Well for many in the SW, SE & NE, you will end up spending more time travelling to a game than at it. It is infact taking access to the game away from these areas.
I cannot understand any of it. I for one will not be attending any games, or watching it. The only positive is having something which resembles cricket on TV. The names are garbage. The kits aren't much better either. Every centrally contracted player is too scared to speak out against their employer and you can't blame anyone else for securing their futures financially. Just such a shame it is for this steaming pile of ****.
The Hundred. An answer to a question nobody asked. Rant over.
But apart from all that? ks in my opinion. We have a perfectly good T20 competition in this country. One that had record attendances this year. Attendances which have been increasing year on year for the last 7 or 8 years I believe! A simple solution would have been to sell a T20 Blast package to a terrestrial channel along with some ODI games and a test or two. Work with Sky for the latter.
Instead we have a format played by nobody else. We have 5 or 10 ball 'overs' as they are simpler to understand. 100 balls as it is 'simpler'. We have non-playing players!!
To facilitate the competition, 4 day cricket will be shoved further into the beginning and end of the season, when we need to produce better quality test match players.
The 50 over competition will run alongside the hundred ball comp. However, it is effectively being downgraded to a 2nd XI tournament as a result, at a time when England are world champions.
There will be little county cricket during the school holidays. I believe the Blast will take place before them too, which will no doubt put attendances down so the ECB can point at a decline and say the Hundred is a great success. So surely kids can attend Hundred games instead? Well for many in the SW, SE & NE, you will end up spending more time travelling to a game than at it. It is infact taking access to the game away from these areas.
I cannot understand any of it. I for one will not be attending any games, or watching it. The only positive is having something which resembles cricket on TV. The names are garbage. The kits aren't much better either. Every centrally contracted player is too scared to speak out against their employer and you can't blame anyone else for securing their futures financially. Just such a shame it is for this steaming pile of ****.
The Hundred. An answer to a question nobody asked. Rant over.
What it does that 20 20 doesn't do is cost the cash reserves of the ECB to set up, kill 50 over cricket the year after England won the world cup and damage red ball cricket even further which can only have bad consequences for test cricket in the future, test cricket being the thing that funds the rest of the game in this country.
That, and it's target audience is people who don't like cricket.
Oh, they've ripped up women's cricket to accommodate it too, and it's based no where near where many of the most successful 2020 teams are from, and loads else besides
That, and it's target audience is people who don't like cricket.
Oh, they've ripped up women's cricket to accommodate it too, and it's based no where near where many of the most successful 2020 teams are from, and loads else besides
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