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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2021 8:17:36 GMT
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Post by werneth on Jul 16, 2021 8:57:23 GMT
Well argued analysis by George Dobell of just what is wrong with the Blundred: www.espncricinfo.com/story/the-hundred-2021-with-friends-like-these-a-hundred-reasons-why-the-ecb-has-failed-the-game-1269911Incidentally, I have only just noticed that the ECB have peculiarly decided to launch their shiny new competition with a women's match at the Oval instead of something with world class (male) stars that non-cricket fans might have heard of. Apparently, they were aiming for a 10,000 gate but have only sold 2,400 tickets so have given away another 6,500. The trouble is,they are spending so much on this that if the competition flops, the whole of English cricket suffers. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2021 14:21:27 GMT
And England players going into Covid bubbles will make an even more diluted competition which would impact on the RL50
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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 12:48:00 GMT
According to Morgn excitement is going through the roof, really, good time to catch up on the stuff I've recorded,just a question anyone watching it?
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Post by redandrosy on Jul 21, 2021 12:51:52 GMT
Absolutely not. Won't have anything to do with it.
I will follow our team in the 50 over cup. Hope the numbers attending and watching the streams out does the abomination but probably too much to ask.
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Post by richard on Jul 21, 2021 13:03:42 GMT
According to Morgn excitement is going through the roof, really, good time to catch up on the stuff I've recorded,just a question anyone watching it? No. Well at least I am not. And I rather suspect that what is going through the roof is all the hot air emanating from the ECB. |
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 21, 2021 17:38:28 GMT
I’d be as likely to watch Stricktly come dancing. Having said that I don’t have that much more interest in 2020 beyond looking for Lancashire and Somerset’s results.
Out of interest in Livingstone, I did watch some of the 2020 highlights but found it as interesting as a turkey shoot. And by turkeys I mean the bowlers being turkeys rather than Pakistan. It’s not hard to see why Livingstone hasn’t fulfilled his promise as a proper cricketer so far . He gets out to 2020 shots in most red ball games. I’m not interested in the analysis of players transferring their weight through their backside as they hit an ungainly reverse sweep with the howitzers they have as bats.
The only thing that might keep me reasonably sane through these next six weeks desert imposed by the ECB is the weekly league cricket. Saw a terrific drawn game last weekend with Rainford needing a four off the last ball but the bowler bowling an excellent leaving them three runs behind with one wicket left.
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Post by Dave Towers on Jul 21, 2021 21:23:15 GMT
I watched it between the two episodes of Coronation Street.
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Post by exile on Jul 21, 2021 21:26:08 GMT
It's pretty obvious that just about all commentators who have any association with the BBC and just about all players have recently come under orders to promote this ersatz competition. Having failed ever to mention it at all until about a fortnight ago, they now can't talk about anything else. This smacks of desperation.
It will be interesting to see how attendances compare with those for the T20 Blast and how the ECB spins it all.
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Post by richard on Jul 21, 2021 23:15:48 GMT
It's pretty obvious that just about all commentators who have any association with the BBC and just about all players have recently come under orders to promote this ersatz competition. Having failed ever to mention it at all until about a fortnight ago, they now can't talk about anything else. This smacks of desperation. It will be interesting to see how attendances compare with those for the T20 Blast and how the ECB spins it all. Of course the ECB do have an advantage. The period of the T20 was characterised by cancelling tickets and forcing people to stay at home. This “thing” is unlikely to have the same issues. |
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Post by exile on Jul 22, 2021 8:43:46 GMT
Well, any comparison would have to be based on men's T20 matches for 2019 (950,000). Extrapolating from the last five years, it's reasonable to project that this season's Blast attendance would have reached at least 1,200,000. Last night's match tells us nothing because it was a women's match (and seems to have been a good one too if you like knockabout cricket) and 4000 of the 7000 spectators had free tickets. The ECB has a target of 450,000 but doesn't say how many will actually be paid for.
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Post by Phil on Jul 22, 2021 10:30:14 GMT
No interest at all in the mickey mouse hundred. People said the T20 was received in the same manner, but at least that was a county tournament played under proper cricket rules, not some franchise nonsense. Sedbergh here I come!
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Post by exile on Jul 22, 2021 13:44:14 GMT
I'm not interested either, in the sense that I couldn't care less who wins, but I am interested in the damage that this competition might do to the county structure. The gimmicky changes to the rules are only there to provide the ECB with the kind of copyright which they stupidly failed to put in place when they invented T20, but the franchise system is another matter.
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 6:33:08 GMT
The game last night finished 15 minutes late so much for a faster game
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Post by Phil on Jul 25, 2021 10:54:45 GMT
Can't see Royal London being too happy with their competition being reduced to a reserve competition by the pub league!
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