No its a ******* travesty on the sport that will destroy county cricket when we have a perfectly good Twenty20 competition where players actually play for the teams where they were bought up.
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Okay now Im more awake
The 100 is a format no one else in the world plays and is a whopping 40 balls less than T20. Doesnt produce cricketers. Stops county and more importantly test Cricket during August.
It litreally accomplishes nothing that a well marketed and good TV deal T20 competion could do, whilst reducing accessibility of watching live Cricket games.
Of the 8 teams that made this years T20 knockout stage (tournament split in two because 100 must be played in August not other Cricket allowed) only 4 have Hundred franchises this was true last year and 8s around 50% the years before that. Hampshire are the only team to have won it and regularly make Finals Day. Although there has been representation by Lancashire & Yorkshire who have made it once. (Note these stats were considerably worse when I thought Hampshire didnt have a Hundred franchise).
Why should smaller counties with better teams be broken up so they can play against each other in a fake competition? And their members and supporters get no meaningful Cricket for months?
Im a Somerset supporter we regularly compete at the top end of the county championship. Last time the One Day Championship was played at List A level we won. We've made finals day more than any other team in T20 history. We haven't missed finals day since the Hundred started. We've made 3 finals and won one.
Yet in the height on Summer my local team is now Cardiff (if I lived in Taunton) and the players.
1 Warwickshire
1 Middlesex (Admittedly Jamie Overton plays for Surrey now but that also highlight the insanity but hes Somerset produced)
2 Lancashire (Buttler is a Lancashsire player but hes Somerset produced and barely played for Lancashire since he moved)
0 Yorkshire
0 Slurrey
1 Hampshire
1 Nottighamshire
1 Glamorgan (wow they actually have a Welsh player now they didnt at first)
So why are we doing all this? Other than money and an old ECB exec got a massive payoff.
Ok....well I'm enjoying it.
Imagine if Premiership Rugby played a competition with less than half the sides. For a month in the middle of the six nations (which stopped to make room) and nobody played for the sides they do normally. And for some reason they played 35min halves.
Sure there would be some fun games of rugby but it would disastrous long term.
Same, tbh
It's marketed heavily, and successfully, in Birmingham - watching it on free to air helps, and it's a very accessible format coming in as an extremely casual fan (usually only watch The Ashes - couldn't even tell you what T20 is)
I like that they double up on games having the women's followed by the men's - had it on in the background yesterday afternoon/evening and got drawn in
Yeah enjoyed watching Trent win against Birmingham
T20 is just another cricket format pioneered in professional cricket in the early 2000's and is the format played by every other franchise league in the world including the IPL.
I think the difference between the hundred and T20 is T20 120balls as its 20 overs of 6 balls as opposed to 20 overs of 5 balls (all other formats of cricket have 6 ball overs).
Then there's just hundred weirdness rules,
Changing bowling ends every other over.
Bowlers being allowed to bow consecutive overs but not more than 2 but can change ends if ends are being changed.
No balls being two runs instead of one.
Imagine trying to take on all the worlds problems at once.
BBC and other potential free-to-air TV partners weren't going to buy Twenty20 matches (too long) is the story I heard for why ECB came up with the hundred format.
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I'm not sure what the scheduling ended up being the first year or is today but it sounded like the ECB wanted something UK free-to-air TV would air at night, in prime time, on their main channel. With that their objective, the decision then was made for a 100-ball format. When I watch T20Is and the BBL it's not uncommon for a match to still be going 3 hours after the first ball.
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Mental first day of the Ashes going on.
Woke up "oh normal service has resumed"
A few hours late "oh yeah Ben Stokes"
If i had tickets for the 4th or 5th day I'd being twitching.
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Top captaincy from Stokes. Realises that he meant to say bowl rather than bat after winning the toss, so captains the side to get out as quickly as possible so we can have a bowl at them.
WTF?
It's day 2 and good as done?
It's day 2 and good as done?
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Well that’s a supreme clusterf*ck. Losing by 8 wickets within 2 days after getting a first innings lead.
Thing is it’s not just this result, it’s how it sets the tone for the whole series. The Aussies will be killing themselves laughing.
Watching the spectacular is fine, but above all you want teams to be smart and this lot seem to have reverse and fifth gears and nothing in between.
Stokes and McCullum soak up the adulation when it goes well, but should be prepared for the kicking they’re about to take for this and quite probably the coming months.
Thing is it’s not just this result, it’s how it sets the tone for the whole series. The Aussies will be killing themselves laughing.
Watching the spectacular is fine, but above all you want teams to be smart and this lot seem to have reverse and fifth gears and nothing in between.
Stokes and McCullum soak up the adulation when it goes well, but should be prepared for the kicking they’re about to take for this and quite probably the coming months.
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it's all part of the plan to lull them into a false sense of security, then on the fifth test BAM! 4-1
Both teams rarely make the same mistake twice, the problem for England is that they still haven't grasped that ideally you want the number of times you make the mistake to be LESS than twice.
Both teams rarely make the same mistake twice, the problem for England is that they still haven't grasped that ideally you want the number of times you make the mistake to be LESS than twice.
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