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The Hundred 2023


i am surprised that Trev hasnt had a look in at the hundred, usually goes at a decent economy and can give it a whack further down the order
 
Struts said:
How can it grow the sport when the vast majority of people have no access to it?

Whisper it but I enjoy franchise cricket for the most part but even a 2 week old tournament like MLC is already miles ahead in interest, quality and star power.

Two divisions of 9, 12 game season. Division 1 & the women's comp have every gsme shown on Sky/BBC while Division 2 gets put on YouTube for free and also encourage teams to adopt city identities.

Piece of piss.
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Because mostly, the counties with a higher population are the hosts of the teams. The vast majority do have access to it, ECB were not stupid when deciding the long term strategies on who the host counties / cities would be. IMO it's a brilliant platform at building more interest into the sport and it's working well from what I have seen
 
According to BBC figures Trent bridge capacity is 17500. The mens game had 12000 in and the women's game had 8000 in. They will promote that as "good numbers", but first game, all the money pumped into this, propaganda, advertising etc that's pretty poor I reckon
 
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
According to BBC figures Trent bridge capacity is 17500. The mens game had 12000 in and the women's game had 8000 in. They will promote that as "good numbers", but first game, all the money pumped into this, propaganda, advertising etc that's pretty poor I reckon
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Wonder what the comparison is to the Blast attendance?
 
Hettonlass said:
They don't even go to watch Durham
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They do.
Voice of fair play said:
Fancy going to a cricket match and enjoying yourself and been called a traitor!!!

Class craic on here at times😀😀
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There was nothing about ‘enjoying yourself’ in the post. You don’t need to make shit up to make your point, the rest would’ve sufficed.
Voice of fair play said:
Not sure that really the point like.

The point surely is people can spend their hard earned money watching whatever sport and whatever team they want.

And don’t have to justify that to any fucker!!!
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You’re right, they don’t have to justify it to anyone - but then you’ve never supported Durham so it wouldn’t matter to you anyway.
Sillypoint said:
id argue this format could save the Counties
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So go on then. Argue it, but there a cleverer people than me who think it’ll be the death of county cricket.
Sillypoint said:
Wonder what the comparison is to the Blast attendance?
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Compare it to what the Blast attendance would’ve been if it had the money and time invested into it that this competition has and then you’ll have a fairer comparison.
SuperK said:
I just don’t see The Hundred adding anything extra to the cricket offer.
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It won’t offer anything extra.
MagCat said:
IMO it's a brilliant platform at building more interest into the sport and it's working well from what I have seen
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Yet it won’t attract anywhere near the numbers that the excellent Ashes Series that has just finished did.
 
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brandon said:
So go on then. Argue it, but there a cleverer people than me who think it’ll be the death of county cricket.
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Is it not already on life support, that life support being handouts from the ECB, without short format cricket and TV money most would be long gone
brandon said:
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Yet it won’t attract anywhere near the numbers that the excellent Ashes Series that has just finished did.
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Behind a £40 a month Paywall?
 
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Cracking day yesterday. Thousands of kids dressed head to toe in yellow absolutely buzzing about cricket. This competition, whatever its fate may be might just prove to be a good fishing net for the next generation. If they like this, they will probably like T20, then some might like ODI and some might like tests. But it is good seeing the family element
 
Sillypoint said:
Is it not already on life support, that life support being handouts from the ECB, without short format cricket and TV money most would be long gone
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Possibly, but it isn’t on ‘life support’ because of any other reason than the mishandling and sheer incompetence of the ECB - some would argue intentionally.

None of us are against short format or TV money, but the way to do it properly all along was to reinvest and reinvigorate the Blast - not create a new format that nobody wants, nobody else plays and that was never needed.

T20 is growing all over the world, it has never been as popular globally - yet for some reason our governing body have turned our competition into a second class citizen.

Just look at what they’ve done to the 50 over competition, we’re world champions and we’re about to go an defend that title - yet the domestic 50 over competition, just like the T20 has been downgraded too. Intentionally.

Sillypoint said:
Behind a £40 a month Paywall?
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Come again?
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
difficult to compare at the moment give the Blast has been de-valued with way less tv exposure and way less advertising £££ spent.
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If folk want to compare Hundred attendances at Trent Bridge to Blast attendances then they’d have to also include Grace Road and Derby’s figures and add those to the TB figures for the Blast - after all, the Trent Alexander-Arnold’s encompass all three of those counties don’t they? Or so we were told… :rolleyes:
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Start delayed indefinitely.
 
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MagCat said:
Because mostly, the counties with a higher population are the hosts of the teams.
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Durham is one of the biggest counties in the country.............. we have to travel 80 miles south to watch this hideous "thing". Bearing in mind with cricket logic, we are the county for Northumberland and parts of Cumbria and the nearest county for Scotland............ that's a lot of people cut off.
 
MagCat said:
Because mostly, the counties with a higher population are the hosts of the teams. The vast majority do have access to it, ECB were not stupid when deciding the long term strategies on who the host counties / cities would be.
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The common denominator is very simple - Test Venues. That’s all it ever was. F*ckall to do with population. Edgbaston isn’t even in Warwickshire for a start.
 
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