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Post by nemouk on Jul 19, 2018 8:04:25 GMT
<this post contained a link with the letters ecb in it so it didn't work and I got too annoyed to work out how to fix it> 20 5 ball overs, two fives from each end before swapping, the same bowler can but doesn't have to bowl two in a row. They really are doing a great job of making this simple.
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Post by Mattzo on Jul 19, 2018 9:15:47 GMT
The spectacular stupidity continues.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Jul 20, 2018 11:30:19 GMT
Hoppsy and norcross' twitter accounts were fun yesterday, with people sending in the most ludicrous ways that the 100 could play out, some crackers in there
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Post by Balladeer on Jul 20, 2018 12:09:33 GMT
Dare I say that the currently mooted version of the Blundred is a minor improvement?
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Post by Balladeer on May 30, 2019 7:06:28 GMT
With apologies to Nemo, I’ve changed his thread title, since it’s definitely no longer T20 - although there’s still a fair amount of speculation involved.
Anyway, we have six team names, and what an inspired selection they are!
London Spirit Birmingham Phoenix Leeds Superchargers Southern Brave Trent Rockets Welsh Fire
Old Trafford doesn’t have one yet, and (according to the *boak* DM) the Oval rejected London Union, London Fuse, London Revels, and London X. Can’t think why...
The names came from marketing company Futurebrand, who shouldn’t be given any further work by anyone.
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Post by nemouk on May 30, 2019 7:18:16 GMT
Welsh. Fucking Welsh. You could not come up with a worse name for the Somerset and Gloucs fans that are already supposed to tramp off to Cardiff.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on May 30, 2019 7:44:05 GMT
Amazing isn't it, just when you think they can't fuck this up anymore, they spend what I assume was fucking loads of money coming up with a bunch of names guaranteed to wind up huge portions of the cricketing population.
The Welsh thing is easily the worst, but a close 2nd is Leeds Superchargers, anyone from Yorks who isn't 'Leeds' fucking hates Leeds (possible over exaggeration, but certainly any cricket and football fans really fucking hate Leeds). Well done, every Yorks fan outside of Leeds alienated.
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Post by Mattzo on May 30, 2019 9:17:18 GMT
What the fuck is Southern Brave.
Most awful collection of names I've ever seen.
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Post by waughandpeace on May 30, 2019 15:42:25 GMT
Awful. Why couldn't they look at the KSL?
Southern Vipers > Southern Brave Western Storm > Welsh Fire
Both already exist and have a following. And Yorkshire Diamonds, Lancashire Thunder, Surrey Stars wouldn't be as alienating to the rest of the people in those counties as "Leeds Superchargers", "Manchester ______" and "London _____" as we may end up with. They're on course to be binning the tournament after a few seasons.
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Post by waughandpeace on Sept 2, 2019 16:31:01 GMT
Sounds like each of the 8 teams will get at least one England contracted player, ideally from their catchment area... The ones without any options will be able to pick from what's left (likely to include Bairstow, Root, Willey, Wood)
So roughly: Birmingham - Woakes Cardiff - ? Leeds - Stokes Lords - Morgan Oval - Roy Manchester - Buttler Nottingham - Hales? Southampton - Archer It's an important part of making this work. They'll also hopefully have a tendency towards signing local county players in the rest of the auction.
I find it a bit weird they're only allowing 3 overseas players in a squad of 15... IPL allows at least 7-8 of which 4 can play. BBL only two, admittedly. But the Blast already allows 2, so thought this would increase tbh
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Post by nemouk on Sept 2, 2019 21:56:02 GMT
Yeah I figured it would be three playing but a higher number registered. They're making the (big?) assumption that players are going to be available for the whole period.
The way it was announced was 'test contracted players' which means people who wouldn't normally expect to play T20 might get a go just for marketing? Also one or two 'local icon players' which sounds like first picks from county squads.
You'd think something like:
Birmingham - Moeen, Woakes, Pat Brown Cardiff - Genuinely god knows. Would have a flying guess at Gregory, Ryan Higgins and Bairstow as Yorkshire haven't got space for all theirs Leeds - Root, Stokes, Rashid Lords - Morgan, TRJ, Willey (returning to Northants?) Oval - Roy, S Curran, Billings Manchester - Buttler (thoroughly unfair), could see Anderson being drafted for promotional reasons more than anything else and Jennings? Nottingham - Broad, Hales, Joe Clarke Southampton - Archer, Vince, Dawson
Would seem reaaasonably fair although Cardiff look to be struggling for anyone actually Welsh (almost like Cardiff is a dumb place for the team to be).
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Oct 1, 2019 10:20:29 GMT
Don't care if he's a WC winning captain, comments like this, 'The Hundred, yes, I do think we need it. We need one franchise-based tournament, with fewer teams, in order to consistently sell the game to the country. Anybody I speak to who loves sport but doesn't necessarily love cricket is crying out for a tournament that he or she understands, because 18 teams going for a long period of time just doesn't make sense to anybody' make me think that he's a money grabbing c**t.
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Post by nemouk on Oct 3, 2019 12:11:16 GMT
Having registered a trademark application for "Western Fire" in a bid to win over Somerset and Gloucestershire fans, the ECB's U-turn on the Cardiff-based team was revealed in full: Welsh Fire will wear red, while their badge features the words "Tân Cymreig", the Welsh translation of the team's name.
Well, this will go down well.
Although every team being sponsored by a different snack or crisp I can get behind.
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Post by nemouk on Oct 3, 2019 12:14:56 GMT
This is the greatest and best tournament in the world.
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Post by Balladeer on Oct 3, 2019 12:30:26 GMT
Not a tournament to Skip.
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