Cricket

[summerisle]

Lnk

I was watching on YouTube before, so it's deffo on there.

Link it if you can find t, cheers.

Yorkshire all out for 224.

 

[Ivo]

Lnk

Link it if you can find t, cheers.

Yorkshire all out for 224.

 

[sbbefc]

I have very mixed views on the Hundred. As a traditionalist myself, who loves test and county cricket, there's a lot to dislike about it - all money and the impact.

On the other hand, my son plays cricket at junior level and the number of children who are turning up, week in week out, is growing all the time.

What do they talk about? It's limited overs: T20; The Hundred; ODI et al. There's a lot of young people getting into cricket because of these newer formats.

That can't be a negative. My son will watch bits of a test match, but he's too young and loses interest. He's been at T20 this afternoon and watched all of it.

He's came home and was thoroughly upset when he couldn't stay up to watch the Hundred. I know, in time, he'll come to love county and test cricket.

Yet right now, like his peers, they're hooked on these formats and learning a lot from it. We must make sure that our whims and desires don't blind us from this.

I'm not saying we should throw everything in as there's lots of pitfalls and the traditional formats need to be protected although it should be a balance.

Tbh I only really follow test cricket, but as its on terrestrial, I've watched bits and pieces of the Hundred and enjoyed it.

As you say, it's great to see kids get involved. When I started out playing as a kid it was 20 over stuff in any case and this was before T20 was officially a thing.

For the best part of a decade I used to play 45 over cricket week in week out and it's a huge commitment. Great when you're in a winning team but awful if not. Ended up packing it in.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Lancs strolling to victory...

 

[PhilM]

That's the problem, the balance now (and in the future) is increasingly skewed to the bish bash bosh, bastardised, short attention span form of cricket.

It's a problem for us old timers, however it isn't for the younger members of the sport who'll take over the reigns. It's attracting more and more interest.

My son goes to cricket practice and there's typically over fifty children there, and this is replicated in clubs across Merseyside and beyond.

If limited overs cricket is playing a part in this, well I won't complain. Like I said, what we need to do is ensure that the others forms aren't lost because of it.

Arguably, England's current improvement in form is to some extent coming from cricketers who've brought characteristics from the white ball game.

 

[Jebus_lives]

It's a problem for us old timers, however it isn't for the younger members of the sport who'll take over the reigns. It's attracting more and more interest.

My son goes to cricket practice and there's typically over fifty children there, and this is replicated in clubs across Merseyside and beyond.

If limited overs cricket is playing a part in this, well I won't complain. Like I said, what we need to do is ensure that the others forms aren't lost because of it.

Arguably, England's current improvement in form is to some extent coming from cricketers who've brought characteristics from the white ball game.

Bluntly the game is far more accessible as a shorter format than 5 days.

The answer, in my opinion, isn't to diminish 5 day cricket by introducing more and more versions of the shorter format. I'm fine with the hundred - we need to decide if we're going with it or the blast. Because at the moment, we're saturating one market at the detriment of another.

 

[Connor]

Death, taxes, and Lancs beating Yorkshire

 

[ToffeeTim]

That London v Oval game was a quality game of cricket

 

[BigMick]

Easy win for Lancs yesterday - it was literally men against boys with Lancs' more experienced players making the difference. Best thing about it, apart from some of Bohannon's shots was the York ground with a capacity crowd - Yorkshire should play there more often.

Once Bohannon gave it away I switched to the Glamorgan Kent game to see if Glamorgan, the reigning cup holders could pull off a remarkable win having been 107-5 chasing 305 to win. They did thanks to a brilliant from the in-form Colin Ingram and 80no from reserve wicket-keeper Tom Cullen. Another good crowd there - 50 over cricket at its best.

 

[Jebus_lives]

 

[summerisle]

Easy win for Lancs yesterday - it was literally men against boys with Lancs' more experienced players making the difference. Best thing about it, apart from some of Bohannon's shots was the York ground with a capacity crowd - Yorkshire should play there more often.

Once Bohannon gave it away I switched to the Glamorgan Kent game to see if Glamorgan, the reigning cup holders could pull off a remarkable win having been 107-5 chasing 305 to win. They did thanks to a brilliant from the in-form Colin Ingram and 80no from reserve wicket-keeper Tom Cullen. Another good crowd there - 50 over cricket at its best.

York looked a lovely little ground, but quite small. Nice to see so many spectators.

 

[summerisle]

Can't wait for the Lancashire Action Group response. lol Nothing yet.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I don't know what it is about the Hundred, but I just can't take to it.

I think it's the insistence from commentators that it's the greatest thing ever invented and it's the dominant form of short form cricket - despite it being in its infancy and barely any different in format to the T20

 

[summerisle]

Keating Jennings in the Lions squad, no spring chicken at 30, but well deserved. I always thought the Lions were for up and coming cricketers wth a chance of promotion to the Test squad, but obviously not.

 

[BigMick]

Keating Jennings in the Lions squad, no spring chicken at 30, but well deserved. I always thought the Lions were for up and coming cricketers wth a chance of promotion to the Test squad, but obviously not.

You're right - it should be.

In this case, though, it looks a hybrid between a few promising young players - James Rew, who played so well against Lancs recently, Patterson-White, Conners and Jacks, and players who are in with a chance of playing in the SA tests. The presence of the experienced Jennings, Sibley and possibly Duckett suggests they are in the frame for replacing the walking wicket of Crawley at the top of the order.

Sibley, to be fair to him, spent the winter modifying his crab-like technique and is now a bit more open, but I think he's only managed one championship century this season so is a bit lucky to be in. As you say, Jennings has earned his chance but, frustratingly for him, his old fault of half-hearted driving at balls outside his off stump has re-emerged in the games at Northants and both innings against Kent. His disgusted reaction to those dismissals shows he knows what the problem is., so he'll no doubt be working on it.