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The End of the 16.4?


Two competitions always too much, one competition in a designated window, with top quality internationals playing is the way it needs to go.

The IPL has shown that works where each match an event.

A new competition needs to follow that blueprint imo
 
I was noticeable as least for me, that the T20 blast day finals day which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, only had about a 4 page thread on here which really surprised me.

Really small sample size granted but people on here obviously not that bothered about the current blast competition based of that, and clearly don’t like the hundred that well documented.

So I hope they take the best of them both to make one great T20 tournament.

Any new tournament has to firstly be T20, the trial of hundred balls doesn’t work,

However the idea of a designated window for the tournament (as the hundred) I really like.

The hundred has also failed to attract the top T20 players on the world especially internationally.

Any new tournament has to have the best players in it surely?
 
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Voice of fair play said:
Two competitions always too much, one competition in a designated window, with top quality internationals playing is the way it needs to go.

The IPL has shown that works where each match an event.

A new competition needs to follow that blueprint imo
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Couldn’t disagree more about the window. Yes, it gets the odd bigger name over to play but it absolutely kills the crowds.

If Durham play six home games in a fortnight I’ll go to two of them. If they play six on alternate Friday nights over twelve weeks I’ll go to five. That idea has been proven loads of times over the years when they’ve tried to condense The Blast with Tuesday night games etc.

You might sacrifice getting a Warner, Khan or Pollard over doing it that way but what you get back in terms of attendances will more than make up for it.
 
NorthCountryBoy said:
Couldn’t disagree more about the window. Yes, it gets the odd bigger name over to play but it absolutely kills the crowds.

If Durham play six home games in a fortnight I’ll go to two of them. If they play six on alternate Friday nights over twelve weeks I’ll go to five. That idea has been proven loads of times over the years when they’ve tried to condense The Blast with Tuesday night games etc.

You might sacrifice getting a Warner, Khan or Pollard over doing it that way but what you get back in terms of attendances will more than make up for it.
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I think what makes the IPL amongst other things successful is each game is an event in itself.

The only game on that day or that time unless double header and all the focus on it, tv coverage etc etc.

Not sure that could work outside a designated window as would take up too much of the calendar
 
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Voice of fair play said:
I was noticeable as least for me, that the T20 blast day finals day which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, only had about a 4 page thread on here which really surprised me.

Really small sample size granted but people on here obviously not that bothered about the current blast competition based of that, and clearly don’t like the hundred that well documented.
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I think for most people it was down to Blast fatigue. The competition is too many games and goes on for far too long unfortunately and I don’t think it helps that finals day was sandwiched in between two Tests.

The issue has always been that it’s become a second class citizen, an after thought almost.
 
brandon said:
I think for most people it was down to Blast fatigue. The competition is too many games and goes on for far too long unfortunately and I don’t think it helps that finals day was sandwiched in between two Tests.

The issue has always been that it’s become a second class citizen, an after thought almost.
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I personally think just my opinion that two competitions sours the interest and creates comparisons between the two, when two not needed.

And too much of a good thing ( and I love short format cricket) saturates it.

I am a bit like that with premier league football simply too much live football.

As a kid could not wait for FA cup final and loved live football, now far too much and too often so loses appeal somewhat.

One competition in prime time ( school holidays preferably) with the top quality players from both home and abroad would be extremely watchable imo.

I have always thought and still do, that seeing the best players pit there wits against each other is a very watchable product.

I know a lot of people don’t like the IPL for various reasons and what they doing to the game and see that point.

But if you strip all that away the quality on show in the IPL games is very entertaining imo.
 
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I have an interest in T20 because Durham play in it (albeit sometimes not as well as well as we would like). If the ‘new’ short form competition is franchise based and doesn’t include Durham, I would have zero interest in it.

So if that’s the plan, I expect that it will largely go the same way as the 16.4. I’m not really arsed if the best players in the world can be attracted to it if they’re playing for Leeds, Manchester or whoever. I suspect that many of us will be of the same view.
 
Voice of fair play said:
I think what makes the IPL amongst other things successful is each game is an event in itself.

The only game on that day or that time unless double header and all the focus on it, tv coverage etc etc.

Not sure that could work outside a designated window as would take up too much of the calendar
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Anything that misses the football season will be fine, and Sky will want it. The 6 weeks holidays aren’t great for that. That’s why I think this Ashes schedule has been quality.

Indian crowds are different to ours. Like it or not to get lots of the English to cricket grounds and an occasion going it needs to be a night on the piss on a Thurs/ Fri/ Sat night.
 
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