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Post by nemouk on Apr 19, 2018 18:41:46 GMT
On the other hand this is the furthest up the news listings I've seen crixet outside the ashes for ages, so maybe they're onto something
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 18:43:54 GMT
The Australian cheating scandal was pretty high up to be fair.
What do you mean, ‘Schadenfreude’?
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Post by nemouk on Apr 19, 2018 18:54:20 GMT
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 19, 2018 19:25:29 GMT
He is an old cricket fan, though - not the sort of audience that S16 is looking to attract. I daresay he probably said the same about T20 when it was introduced. (He'd have been right then too, of course.)
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Post by Mattzo on Apr 20, 2018 7:57:05 GMT
Luke Wells in particular has gone up in my opinion.
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Post by nemouk on Apr 20, 2018 8:17:04 GMT
I thought his career stats of 112 first class matches and just 5 T20s might help
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 20, 2018 8:18:47 GMT
And now he’s gone up in mine.
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Post by Mattzo on Apr 20, 2018 8:46:36 GMT
"For a start, when the ECB says they have discussed the idea with "the players", they mean only three players: Daryl Mitchell, Eoin Morgan and Heather Knight."
This, from Dobell's article, amused me.
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Post by jevans90 on Apr 20, 2018 9:05:03 GMT
Huge respect for Dawson actually - as a fringe England player who's pretty much certain to get a decent contract whatever format this new 'T20' takes he has plenty of incentive to shrug it off and not rock the boat.
The thing that annoys me most with the new announcements isn't the pointless format change, frankly that doesn't make much difference and isn't the real damage to the men's game. But on the back of the world cup win they have a real chance to grow the women's game through the KSL, and they come up with this.
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Post by waughandpeace on Apr 20, 2018 10:22:48 GMT
Kevan James saying on the Hants commentary he doesn't get why they haven't gone for 10 ten-ball overs. A very good point. I could get behind that much more than this bizarre final 10 ball over!
Could even get everyone to bowl one over for added intrigue!
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Post by Balladeer on Apr 26, 2018 18:20:34 GMT
From Switch Hit: ‘“The Hundred” sounds like some dystopian future game show I. Which a hundred cricketers are sent to an island with one bat and one ball, and only two can come back alive.’
Neither of them bowlers, natch.
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Post by Balladeer on May 8, 2018 19:40:26 GMT
A thought.
What if the Hundred is a massive wind-up? At the end of it, the ECB go, 'No you're right, we'll have a city-based T20 competition instead,' and we all sigh with relief and buy up immediately because it's better than the load of drivel they suggested previously... forgetting how it still screws the county season up the rear with a big spiky one?
It's just that, with the PCA negotiations going on, I feel like that might be what happens. People will forget that City T20 is still a monumentally bad idea in an already crowded season, and go with the second-least bad option.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on May 14, 2018 20:39:27 GMT
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on May 14, 2018 20:45:18 GMT
I would also like to invite Colin Graves to fuck off, and when he gets to where he's fucked off to, to fuck off from there as well. He's no longer a Yorkshireman in my eyes.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on May 14, 2018 20:46:25 GMT
also this
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