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Wickets to be renamed 'outs' for The Hundred

vinegar hill said:
I just can’t get my head round this.
There’s already a hugely successful short form of the game called T20 with 120 balls per innings.
Hugely successful with national teams and with IPL and Big Bash.
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Don't forget the fact that this is being played at the same time as the 50 over competition - you know, the one that actually has an international format currently, but i guess we've decided we don't need players for that in future.
 

Twisted said:
Don't forget the fact that this is being played at the same time as the 50 over competition - you know, the one that actually has an international format currently, but i guess we've decided we don't need players for that in future.
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Final is now on a Thursday too. There’ll be no one there...

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NorthCountryBoy said:
Final is now on a Thursday too. There’ll be no one there...

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FTECB are genuinely trying to kill county cricket aren’t they??

Which other organisation in their right mind would see their team become world champions, then immediately try to remove the category they became world champions in from the face of the earth.......?
 
brandon said:
FTECB are genuinely trying to kill county cricket aren’t they??

Which other organisation in their right mind would see their team become world champions, then immediately try to remove the category they became world champions in from the face of the earth.......?
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It's been clear from the start. I was quite surprised anyone was taken in by it then, and staggered anyone still is now.

If we want to see professional cricket in Durham in the future it has to fail.

Did anyone listen to the TMS podcast about the start of the season with Keats? He said the Durham v Lancs T20 game got 500,000 viewers on Sky. Can you imagine what the game could have achieved with that kind of base and the £100m in investment.

To come up with a new plan which involves telling all of those people to fuck off is quite staggering.
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
If anyone has ever tried explaining cricket to anyone who knows literally nowt about the game it’s entirely understandable that The Hundred is doing this. They’re after a new audience not hardy Test cricket purists.
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Dumbing down and practically destroying a sport to try and appeal to people who don’t like cricket and still won’t like cricket after you’ve finished the job of dumbing down and destroying the sport, at the expense of people who do like cricket, is the definition of stupidity.
 
Voice of fair play said:
That would be the same for most top international cricketers on central contracts.

That situation is not inclusive to Durham

And if your right on your last sentence participation will continue to drop and local clubs will continue to fold and struggle to field teams.

That is and always has been my primary concern, local club cricket which is getting worse and worse every year in terms of participation imo
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Indeed.

If they were going to inject money, then this is where it should have been.

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when I could get hooked on the game watching Lillee, Thomson. John Snow, Bob Willis, Ian Botham and Vivian Richards on terrestrial TV, learned to play a little at school, and there were multiple clubs with a range of age group teams and two or three senior teams each to take it on from there. This helped me learn to love the game.

Cricket has all but disappeared from council TV, playgrounds have been sold off and extra-curricular sports curtailed through decades of cuts to the education system, which has led to a lack of engagement at a time when every kid can be the star player in their own Playstation adventure rather than fielding out all afternoon, getting a couple of overs and batting at nine in a Saturday second XI.

Add to that the fact that the cost of running a cricket club is rising each year, and all cricket clubs have had a year virtually unfunded because of the pandemic, and it is a perfect storm for local cricket.

The game is in danger of becoming a minor public school sport with weird and expensive infrastructure and equipment, like lacrosse. And if The Hundred is a massive success (of which I am skeptical), then the infrastructure to exploit that success to increase participation just isn't there.
 
jaxaxe said:
Indeed.

If they were going to inject money, then this is where it should have been.

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when I could get hooked on the game watching Lillee, Thomson. John Snow, Bob Willis, Ian Botham and Vivian Richards on terrestrial TV, learned to play a little at school, and there were multiple clubs with a range of age group teams and two or three senior teams each to take it on from there. This helped me learn to love the game.

Cricket has all but disappeared from council TV, playgrounds have been sold off and extra-curricular sports curtailed through decades of cuts to the education system, which has led to a lack of engagement at a time when every kid can be the star player in their own Playstation adventure rather than fielding out all afternoon, getting a couple of overs and batting at nine in a Saturday second XI.

Add to that the fact that the cost of running a cricket club is rising each year, and all cricket clubs have had a year virtually unfunded because of the pandemic, and it is a perfect storm for local cricket.

The game is in danger of becoming a minor public school sport with weird and expensive infrastructure and equipment, like lacrosse. And if The Hundred is a massive success (of which I am skeptical), then the infrastructure to exploit that success to increase participation just isn't there.
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On the last bit, there are still plenty of clubs thankfully and the ECB has done a great job in the last 2-3 years with All Stars. I think in 5-6 years we’ll see a boost to adult cricket from it.
 
brandon said:
FTECB are genuinely trying to kill county cricket aren’t they??

Which other organisation in their right mind would see their team become world champions, then immediately try to remove the category they became world champions in from the face of the earth.......?
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The only governing body that seems to hate it's own fans :lol:
 
Maybe we should change Raines name to 'bowler 9' as to not confuse the Essex lot that are looking out of their windows in confusion
 
All this re-naming because "Gervais" in marketing does not understand them. His Daddy owned the top half of the Lake District and he re-named crisps as Crunchy pots. Gervais did a marketing degree at the Dogger Bank University...
 
Relegating the 4 day game in favour of trendy things like the Hundred and 20/20 will do us no favours when it comes to Tests, and particularly the Ashes.

The new formats will get better viewing figures than the County game, but in a few years when we England's test side are all out in the morning session, they exact same people behind the new formats will be wondering why we can't stay in!

Though some would argue we rarely stay in all that long anyway!

I'd much rather have seen the money ploughed into One Day Cricket to make that more appealling than trying another format!
mackembhoy said:
Fantstic point seeing as there will be rain affected games.

How the fuck are new fans supposed to understand that if wickets is too hard.
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It'll be renamed the "Rain Formula" and everyone will just accept it
 
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