T20 Blast Crowds

[NorthCountryBoy]

Was 6100 last week really our best non-Yorkshire crowd since it started in 2003?!

Maybe my mind playing tricks but I remember some great crowds early on.

 

[Parkside]

Was 6100 last week really our best non-Yorkshire crowd since it started in 2003?!

Maybe my mind playing tricks but I remember some great crowds early on.

Yeh but in the early years the capacity of the ground was much smaller so it would have looked fuller.

 

[Mainze]

Nabi is class

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[Chappers]

Cricket needs to evolve to survive. However, it doesn't need a new version it needs to have the 3 versions it currently has run better.

I think sky does a great job but with so many games why cant the 20/20 be shared with council telly. Straight away that brings the the game to a new audience.

 

[Voice of fair play]

Cricket needs to evolve to survive. However, it doesn't need a new version it needs to have the 3 versions it currently has run better.

I think sky does a great job but with so many games why cant the 20/20 be shared with council telly. Straight away that brings the the game to a new audience.

I think that is the preferred option by most on here, but pretty sure the option of showing the current 20/20 on free to air tv was turned down by them companies, hence the new concept.

You spot on mind about cricket needing to evolve to survive 20/20 has proved that with the new audiences hopefully this will go a step further it that aspect.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Not often it happens but I'm in full agreement with @brandon

 

[Steak Pie]

I think that is the preferred option by most on here, but pretty sure the option of showing the current 20/20 on free to air tv was turned down by them companies, hence the new concept.

You spot on mind about cricket needing to evolve to survive 20/20 has proved that with the new audiences hopefully this will go a step further it that aspect.

Point of order. That was said by someone from The Hundred media team, and not confirmed by anyone from any TV channel, and never mentioned again. And given that the Big Bash, IPL and CPL have all been shown on free to air, I think it's safe to assume that was a straightforward lie to try and justify themselves.

You have to ask yourself, why do they feel the need to lie?

 

[brandon]

Cricket needs to evolve to survive. However, it doesn't need a new version it needs to have the 3 versions it currently has run better.

I think sky does a great job but with so many games why cant the 20/20 be shared with council telly. Straight away that brings the the game to a new audience.

Agree.

Especially the nights where Women’s T20 took precedence over T20 Blast - those games could easily have been on BBC2 or ITV4 or some such channel. Freesports even, they seem to be real pioneers at present with regards to broadcasting thing people are genuinely interested in but which Sky don’t fancy.

I’m absolutely certain too that more viewers would be interested in a T20 Blast game than a women’s game, the comments on the Sky Cricket social media pages overwhelmingly confirmed that.

 

[leecoo]

Point of order. That was said by someone from The Hundred media team, and not confirmed by anyone from any TV channel, and never mentioned again. And given that the Big Bash, IPL and CPL have all been shown on free to air, I think it's safe to assume that was a straightforward lie to try and justify themselves.

You have to ask yourself, why do they feel the need to lie?

I remember watching the IPL on ITV4 before it got big, so found it strange the team behind the hundred saying tv companies didn't want to broadcast the 20/20 stuff....

 

[Voice of fair play]

Point of order. That was said by someone from The Hundred media team, and not confirmed by anyone from any TV channel, and never mentioned again. And given that the Big Bash, IPL and CPL have all been shown on free to air, I think it's safe to assume that was a straightforward lie to try and justify themselves.

You have to ask yourself, why do they feel the need to lie?

Maybe lie maybe not and think it’s safe to say in our position it’s safe to assume we can’t possobly know either way.

 

[Steak Pie]

Maybe lie maybe not and think it’s safe to say in our position it’s safe to assume we can’t possobly know either way.

Well to counter the argument that no free to air TV companies will show T20 cricket, I'll point out that T20 cricket has been shown on free to air TV loads of times.

The claim was a load of old bollocks and was quickly and quietly dropped.

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

Point of order. That was said by someone from The Hundred media team, and not confirmed by anyone from any TV channel, and never mentioned again. And given that the Big Bash, IPL and CPL have all been shown on free to air, I think it's safe to assume that was a straightforward lie to try and justify themselves.

You have to ask yourself, why do they feel the need to lie?

Simon Hughes said a variant of it. They were interested in franchise rather than county cricket.
T20 vs 100 wasn't a deal breaker for the BBC

 

[Voice of fair play]

Well to counter the argument that no free to air TV companies will show T20 cricket, I'll point out that T20 cricket has been shown on free to air TV loads of times.

The claim was a load of old bollocks and was quickly and quietly dropped.

There is a distinct possibility the tv companies wanted something a little bit diffrent to capture the public’s imagination.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Only a handful of games today, more bizarre scheduling

 

[Silly Point]

Only a handful of games today, more bizarre scheduling

Always said should be a full schedule every Sunday. Evenings are shit except for attracting the piss up brigade

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

Always said should be a full schedule every Sunday. Evenings are shit except for attracting the piss up brigade

it's as though they want it to fail to say "we told you we needed a change".

 

[Struts]

Don't understand the clamour to have Blast games on terrestrial. I'd try and get Amazon on board personally.

 

[The Red Telephone]

Only a handful of games today, more bizarre scheduling

One of the games played today has resulted in an unlikely and comfortable victory for Leics at Worcester.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

One of the games played today has resulted in an unlikely and comfortable victory for Leics at Worcester.

Bloody hell that's a shock.

 

[Chappers]

Don't understand the clamour to have Blast games on terrestrial. I'd try and get Amazon on board personally.

Because we are trying to get the game to a wider audience and the best way is terrestrial tv.