summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Durham 108-4.
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Durham 117-5.
summerisle
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Tea : Durham 122-5.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Durham 145-6,Mahmood 3-44.
...i’ve been listening to commentary via BBC website, Mahmood causing all kinds of problems but Durham are riding their luck. Time and Anderson’s injury working against Lancashire, I think the game will rest on Onions final spell whenever he comes on.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Need to get Bancroft out, he held up Lancashire in the first innings.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Meandering to a draw, Durham 181-6. Glamorgan, currently top, drew their match.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Match drawn. Lancashire remain second, three points behind Glamorgan with a game in hand.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Just noticed that not only Jimmy Anderson injured but so was Liam Livingstone. Did well to take 6 wickets.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
For the tournament barely anyone has heard about, and for those who have, they couldn't give a fig. A waste of time : adopting a terrible franchise structure, a gimmicky 100 ball competition and all in all anotherblow to county cricket.
I forgot about this, it's a complete mess.
I forgot about this, it's a complete mess.
Minimeister
Player Valuation: £35m
Absolutely ridiculous. You've got Twenty 20 being a massive hit and they think you need this garbage. I'll give it one season.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Ridiculous.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Won't go into detail at this late hour, but suffice to say I'm nowhere near as down on this competition as others on here.
It's been badly launched and marketed but the fact it's on free to air tv is massive, and if England win this world cup and the ashes, this will be the only cricket format accessible to a vast majority of part time or casual fans. They will have only seen England on the news, or heard of the fuss but without feeling a part of it or really into it as you would when watching, but would be receptive to seeing some of the stars in action.
Each innovation T20 recently, but previously, non first class limited overs one day cricket being brought in, even way back to Kerry Packer's 'circus' with coloured clothing and floodlights, were all ridiculed but all added to the game, some formats becoming part and parcel of it. This will be ridiculed too, but in time don't be too surprised if it's very successful.
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summerisle
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There are many faults to this overblown expensive experiment. To take just one : you mention the undoubted success of T20 - capacity crowds filled with youngsters at most county grounds, especially during the school holidays. Next year the competition is being shoehorned into May and June, meaning no matches during the school holidays. Counties which don't host ' the Hundred' therefore will have no matches during this time, save for the denuded 50 over competition. Hardly enticing the young putative cricket supporter. There are also other criticisms :
The Hundred makes no sense, it's time to call it off - Sam Morshead
The Hundred makes no sense, it's time to call it off - Sam Morshead, ECB, cricket news, The Cricketer
www.thecricketer.com
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
There are many faults to this overblown expensive experiment. To take just one : you mention the undoubted success of T20 - capacity crowds filled with youngsters at most county grounds, especially during the school holidays. Next year the competition is being shoehorned into May and June, meaning no matches during the school holidays. Counties which don't host ' the Hundred' therefore will have no matches during this time, save for the denuded 50 over competition. Hardly enticing the young putative cricket supporter. There are also other criticisms :
The Hundred makes no sense, it's time to call it off - Sam Morshead
The Hundred makes no sense, it's time to call it off - Sam Morshead, ECB, cricket news, The Cricketerwww.thecricketer.com
There are many criticisms, some absolutely are more than valid, need changing and more thought, rather like an awful lot of new innovations to the domestic landscape, it has not been completely thought through to the extent it should have been, but that is different to thinking, in general terms it won't be more positive than negative for the domestic game.
I've been reading about the introduction of one day cricket to the calendar in the early 1960's, and the tremendous opposition at the time from many quarters. It would ruin first class cricketers, seriously damage the standard of the first class game and be totally impractical with the long travelling and then 130 over's (65 a side) in one day, compounded by travelling in the night to tomorrow's game for some.
The Sunday League, introduced later in the sixties also engendered similar criticism, as Sunday in those days was their day of rest in a county game, instead it meant cricketers scooting up and down the country on the Saturday night, and similar after play on Sunday, for the continuation of their championship match.
The Packer revolution (the 70's?), which broke the wage ceiling of really poorly paid cricketers and in the end resulted in a lot more cash generated, introduced white balls, coloured clothing, floodlights and many other innovations. The enormous outrage and a really fierce media campaign against his circus was quite vitriolic at times. Test rounds out of bounds, court proceedings taken out, which embarrassingly the ICC lost etc, and yet today many of these innovations are part of the ODI game. Even the standard of the Packer 'circus was sneezed at when it was quite obvious to anyone and everyone it was of a far, far higher standard than what was left of international cricket, as they had virtually all the best players. Some players (Michael Holding) still maintain it the some of the finest cricket he ever played in.
Sorry for going off at such a tangent, but rather like in the past, there are plenty of ill thought out aspects which need reform, some more urgently than others, but in general, in years to come, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we look back on its introduction as a good thing, not in all aspects, but in most.
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