Voice of fair play
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Both them two injured mate
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The Hundred 2022 Match Thread
- Thread starter Hetty
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Ah, thought they’d just dropped out.
The Great MES
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Another game that's over as a contest after about 50 balls. It's shit.
Welsh Fire have been absolutely shocking. Their team isn’t even that bad on paper.
Play one team twice, which is the teams closest to each other.
The Great MES
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One of the pundits said (without a hint of irony) that they should have had more players from Glamorgan playing for them.
Steak Pie
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Obviously haven't watched any of this bullshit but I have been quite amused tonight. As usual when a game finishes the bulletins start to pop up all over news feeds and sports apps, and tonight they're all showing photos of that global superstar and legendary all time great.... Samit Patel.
Obviously haven't watched any of this bullshit but I have been quite amused tonight. As usual when a game finishes the bulletins start to pop up all over news feeds and sports apps, and tonight they're all showing photos of that global superstar and legendary all time great.... Samit Patel.
to be fair, he was ripping it square.......but the Welsh side are so bad it means as much credit as you are giving it
Steak Pie
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He wasn't on any of the promotional material pre tournament!That's cricket all over for me, the nature of short format cricket is such that throws up random players all the time. Three big shots or three good balls and anyone could be player of the match.
Another point I didn't learn until yesterday is that it's an unbalanced schedule with two games versus the 'rivals'* and one against everyone else. More is more is more, I suppose.
*Obviously with this manufactured farce there are no rivals, despite what the marketing department have spent millions trying to create. Manchester v 'Northern' is not and will never be a Roses match.
That's cricket all over for me, the nature of short format cricket is such that throws up random players all the time. Three big shots or three good balls and anyone could be player of the match.
Another point I didn't learn until yesterday is that it's an unbalanced schedule with two games versus the 'rivals'* and one against everyone else. More is more is more, I suppose.
*Obviously with this manufactured farce there are no rivals, despite what the marketing department have spent millions trying to create. Manchester v 'Northern' is not and will never be a Roses match.
They need to work on that structure imo, maybe a world cup style group stage and knock out stages.
The “rivals” thing is a bit naff.
Enjoy it nonetheless, and makes me starving for crisps.
That's cricket all over for me, the nature of short format cricket is such that throws up random players all the time. Three big shots or three good balls and anyone could be player of the match.
Another point I didn't learn until yesterday is that it's an unbalanced schedule with two games versus the 'rivals'* and one against everyone else. More is more is more, I suppose.
*Obviously with this manufactured farce there are no rivals, despite what the marketing department have spent millions trying to create. Manchester v 'Northern' is not and will never be a Roses match.
Div 1 of the top red ball comp in the country is also unbalanced in the same way.
In 5/10 years they probably will be rivals too, as much as the likes of you and me won’t recognise it.
Steak Pie
Striker
Yes, they've dicked around with the CC so much it's now a complete mess. It whiffs a bit that you'd do something like this on purpose at the start of a new competition.
They won't, you can't just manufacture rivalries. You're not going to get Brummies wandering round saying how much they hate those Trent bastards, or people from Hove making up chants about Robert Croft.
But you don’t get those last couple things in the T20 Blast either cos they aren’t in the cricket culture (mebbes the Roses the exception).
To a lot of young Aussies and Indians the IPL and BBL franchises are now the proper teams and the same will happen over here.
Steak Pie
Striker
You do at Roses games like.
Bopara rolling back the years tonightObviously haven't watched any of this bullshit but I have been quite amused tonight. As usual when a game finishes the bulletins start to pop up all over news feeds and sports apps, and tonight they're all showing photos of that global superstar and legendary all time great.... Samit Patel.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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