16.4 Could be AXED!

[Voice of fair play]

Let’s hang fire to see the Ashes before being totally on board with , what can be reckless batting

I’m all for attacking but there are periods when just hanging fire a little can lead to more as a day goes on

Yeah of course mate take that point, there is certainly points in games where it needs to be more measured approach.

But think for you to be fair, you surely must admit the new attacking approach in the last year has been nothing other than a brilliant success.

 

[Ghfd]

Yeah of course mate take that point, there is certainly points in games where it needs to be more measured approach.

But think for you to be fair, you surely must admit the new attacking approach in the last year has been nothing other than a brilliant success.

Totally agree it’s been a fantastic period which I hope will last another summer

 

[Voice of fair play]

nothing to do with what I just said

this tournament would be no more popular on here if it was 20 overs

it has absolutely nothing to do with Durham, we have nobody to support or any cricket to watch

I fell in love with cricket as a kid and Durham were not a first class county then.

The very fact people nickname it the 16.4 kind of suggests just a little bit that overs are preferred to hundred balls?

Totally agree it’s been a fantastic period which I hope will last another summer

Key, McCullum and Stokes deserve nothing other than positive praise been brilliant mate

 

[MustardAndOnions]

I fell in love with cricket as a kid and Durham were not a first class county then.

The very fact people nickname the 16.4 kind of suggests just a little bit that overs are preferred to hundred balls?

You think people on here would support a franchise tournament that is threatening the very fabric of our game if they played a few more balls?

Aye sure they would all start supporting Manchester originals mate

 

[Ghfd]

I fell in love with cricket as a kid and Durham were not a first class county then.

The very fact people nickname it the 16.4 kind of suggests just a little bit that overs are preferred to hundred balls?

Key, McCullum and Stokes deserve nothing other than positive praise been brilliant mate

Definitely , the thing I’m worried about is Stokes knee and potential to bowl

If it’s really gone, I do hope he just gets his nut down, like he did at headingley in 2019 and have the best batting series of his career

Could make the difference

 

[Voice of fair play]

You think people on here would support a franchise tournament that is threatening the very fabric of our game if they played a few more balls?

Aye sure they would all start supporting Manchester originals mate

Seriously yeah I get your wider point, course I do.

People will always rebel when their team in this case counties plays second fiddle to franchise cricket.

Because in general fans support their team first and foremost and many on here think franchise cricket worse than murdering someone

But there is also no doubting that cricket fans prefer overs than balls, and 5/10 ball that the hundred has produced there has been many many many posts on here saying soo.

 

[MustardAndOnions]

Seriously yeah I get your wider point, course I do.

People will always rebel when their team in this case counties plays second fiddle to franchise cricket.

Because in general fans support their team first and foremost and many on here think franchise cricket worse than murdering someone

But there is also no doubting that cricket fans prefer overs than balls, and 5/10 ball that the hundred has produced there has been many many many posts on here saying soo.

100 balls obviously bollocks but it’s not the main reason it’ll more than likely fail mind

We have plenty of perfectly good teams that are well supported, the idea we needed more, can’t get my head around it

 

[Voice of fair play]

100 balls obviously bollocks but it’s not the main reason it’ll more than likely fail mind

We have plenty of perfectly good teams that are well supported, the idea we needed more, can’t get my head around it

Yeah I agree it’s not the main reason.

The main reason is people are interested in their own side and don’t like anything that threatens their side.

100 balls obviously bollocks but it’s not the main reason it’ll more than likely fail mind

We have plenty of perfectly good teams that are well supported, the idea we needed more, can’t get my head around it

Their is nothing wrong though having a designated window for a short format cricket tournament in this country ( preferably T20) which is played in the school holidays to attract families and kids and where each game is a event and screened on tv.

And if the best players from around the world were in it would be a big attraction imo

How they achieve that with soo many teams in this country would be a challenge.

Which is possibly a reason for going down the route they have and answers your question

 

[MustardAndOnions]

Yeah I agree it’s not the main reason.

The main reason is people are interested in their own side and don’t like anything that threatens their side.

Their is nothing wrong though having a designated window for a short format cricket tournament in this country ( preferably T20) which is played in the school holidays to attract families and kids and where each game is a event and screened on tv.

And if the best players from around the world were in it would be a big attraction imo

How they achieve that with soo many teams in this country would be a challenge.

Which is possibly a reason for going down the route they have and answers your question

Blast always gets good foreign players like

As good as most leagues

We had top attendances

I just don’t get even thinking.

 

[Ghfd]

Imo the FTECB have blown it with the 16.4

All the money on that could have easily have been spent on the proven T20 and the simple allowance of the England players being allowed to play

There was zero need for the 16.4 and now the American league and Caribbean league are in direct competition with it, then the exodus to those leagues instead will be telling

Jason Roy is number 1, there will be plenty of others

 

[Cornsay62]

Other than the Leeds superchargers i honestly couldn't name a team in it

Next thing you'll be telling us gosforth isn't in county Durham

Is there a cricket club in Gosforth

 

[brandon]

Other than the Leeds superchargers i honestly couldn't name a team in it

A team named after a KFC dipping sauce, shows how completely f*cking stupid it all is.

 

[mosi]

Next thing you'll be telling us gosforth isn't in county Durham

Or Blaydon….

 

[Voice of fair play]

Blast always gets good foreign players like

As good as most leagues

We had top attendances

I just don’t get even thinking.

Yeah I tend to agree mostly, just think hard to squeeze the whole competition in a designated window and treat each game as a event in a similar way that big bash and IPL did.

I think that is what they were trying to do with the hundred as too many counties to squeeze the blast into that designated window and every game on tv.

However having two completions doesn’t work, and the hundred is now just another similar competition which in turn squeezes the calendar too much.

 

[Bri]

the number of balls I have no interest in like, dunno why people focus on that, its the fake teams that is the problem

just chaning in to 20 overs will make no difference

I reckon they are both the problem.

I find I like first class (having 2 innings is a big plus) better than 50 over and 50 over more than T20,

Wonder what a T20x2 game would be like. (2 innings of 20 overs each).

 

[Fleagle]

Blast always gets good foreign players like

As good as most leagues

We had top attendances

I just don’t get even thinking.

It doesn’t though. I’m in Leeds today and as if to rub in the contrast they’re repeating the IPL playoffs on Sky in the concourse. Full houses, all the Indian stars and a serious wedge of others, a major event, and massive tv revenue on the one hand and a competition dying on its arse with players I’ve barely heard of that they can’t even give away to a proper broadcaster if there’s any football to show on the other.

While the match is going pretty well everything else feels depressing. The 100 wasn’t the answer but there was definitely a question needed to be asked.

 

[Voice of fair play]

It doesn’t though. I’m in Leeds today and as if to rub in the contrast they’re repeating the IPL playoffs on Sky in the concourse. Full houses, all the Indian stars and a serious wedge of others, a major event, and massive tv revenue on the one hand and a competition dying on its arse with players I’ve barely heard of that they can’t even give away to a proper broadcaster if there’s any football to show on the other.

While the match is going pretty well everything else feels depressing. The 100 wasn’t the answer but there was definitely a question needed to be asked.

Like I have said mate a country like ours should have a major short format tournament in a designated window in the summer in a similar way as the IPL.

Which is successful for two main reasons imo.

1. Each game is a sole event where all focus on that game and live on TV

2. Mostly the best players in it and paid accordingly.

Not sure how we can create that here but we should be trying.

100 hasn’t achieved that but this country should have something similar.

Problem is people and fans will rebel anything that even tries to put counties in the background and 18 counties too many to create the above
to be able to fit all games into that window

 

[C.ra.ig]

Like I have said mate a country like ours should have a major short format tournament in a designated window in the summer in a similar way as the IPL.

Which is successful for two main reasons imo.

1. Each game is a sole event where all focus on that game and live on TV

2. Mostly the best players in it and paid accordingly.

Not sure how we can create that here but we should be trying.

100 hasn’t achieved that but this country should have something similar.

Problem is people and fans will rebel anything that even tries to put counties in the background and 18 counties too many to create the above
to be able to fit all games into that window

Short format tournament in a summer holiday window could be a T20 knockout for the counties. Two preliminary ties to get down to 16 then that would make 17 matches over 3-4 weeks and a TV event too. Every match matters.

 

[Twisted]

Wonder what a T20x2 game would be like. (2 innings of 20 overs each).

An unnecessary faf on?

Probably be more popular than 50 overs though because you get double the amount of wickets so you can take more "risks" . But risks without consequences are meaningless and I'm not of the opinion that higher scores make better drama

 

[Ghfd]

Short format tournament in a summer holiday window could be a T20 knockout for the counties. Two preliminary ties to get down to 16 then that would make 17 matches over 3-4 weeks and a TV event too. Every match matters.

Here’s a million pound contract off the FTECB for that

That could have easily worked with England players in it as well