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Post by Mattzo on Apr 19, 2018 13:21:18 GMT
I propose we call it the fuck off you morons competition.
The only person I've found who's reacted positively has been Michael Vaughan.
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Post by Humair on Apr 19, 2018 13:25:46 GMT
“Crucially, this will also help differentiate this competition from Vitality Blast and other T20 competitions worldwide, maintaining our game’s history of successful innovation.
“The players and our valuable broadcast partners under the new TV partnerships from 2020-24 are vital to the success of this competition and they will see the energy, excitement and simplicity of this approach.”
Mention of the ECB's broadcast partners - Sky Sports and BBC Sport will share coverage of the competition - is an interesting sidenote.
When T20 cricket was first introduced it was desgined to be packed into a three-hour period, allowing for young professionals and families to attend after work and school.
Increasingly, the format has become elongated - partly because of the added breaks - such as strategic timeouts - inserted into the game. Broadcasters may have objected to matches stretching to as long as four hours.
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 13:35:28 GMT
I propose we call it the fuck off you morons competition. I’ve been calling T20 this for years!
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Post by Mattzo on Apr 19, 2018 13:36:11 GMT
The answer is to enforce over rates and cut stupid things like strategic timeouts.
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Post by waughandpeace on Apr 19, 2018 13:41:11 GMT
It’ll be nice to be world champion at something... also the only team competing.
The Americans have their ‘World Series’ so we can have our own World S16.4 Super Stupid Series.
Seen a comment recommending 1 ball per batsman and each having their own walk-on music. Walk-on music is definitely something I can get behind - why isn’t this done already?!
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 13:46:00 GMT
Guerilla Cricket’s miles ahead of them there.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Apr 19, 2018 13:51:59 GMT
What in the name of bejesus are they smoking at the ECB? How will getting rid of 3.2 overs make a blind bit of pissing difference to anyone? End to end it may save what, 20-25 mins? Utterly bonkers and everyone involved can jog on
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 13:55:37 GMT
They’re mucking up the Women’s Super League with this nonsense as well.
Sad thing is they don’t care what any of us think, they’re desperately hoping to attract new customers... which I’m fairly sure 3.2 overs’ loss won’t help with, but of course if it does moderately okay they’ll pretend it has.
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Post by nemouk on Apr 19, 2018 13:56:59 GMT
A fresh tactical dimension. Someone said that with a straight face. Or typed it.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Apr 19, 2018 14:04:01 GMT
Stuart Broad and Malan embarrassingly licking the arse of the ECB on the ipple coverage right now, lying through their teeth about how its exciting and blah blah blah. Away to fuck with you ya pricks, get some balls be honest and call it out for the frigging farce it is
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 14:05:09 GMT
To be fair, I wouldn’t call my boss’ new strategic initiative ‘bollocks’ on telly either.
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Post by nemouk on Apr 19, 2018 14:08:28 GMT
I think on reflection I'm not staggeringly angry about this. The press release is Grade A cobblers, but the whole point of the competition is to be on TV and ideally free to air TV, and if getting it to fit in a time slot is the issue, then it's no more farcical than 20 overs is now really.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Apr 19, 2018 14:26:23 GMT
To be fair, I wouldn’t call my boss’ new strategic initiative ‘bollocks’ on telly either. Pfft, Botham would have done.....
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Apr 19, 2018 14:28:58 GMT
I think on reflection I'm not staggeringly angry about this. The press release is Grade A cobblers, but the whole point of the competition is to be on TV and ideally free to air TV, and if getting it to fit in a time slot is the issue, then it's no more farcical than 20 overs is now really. Yeah, most of my anger is about the additional T20 tournament in the first place rather than the format, though I do genuinely think it is dumb to make such a small change, 50 over to 20 over cricket was a revolution, this is just such a teensy change to make it seem stoopid
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Post by jevans90 on Apr 19, 2018 14:44:07 GMT
I've said it all along: the problem with T20 is that it takes about half an hour too long, doesn't have enough pointless complexity, and is played by too many teams that aren't generic enough. Thank goodness they've fixed all of that, cricket is saved.
Sigh.
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