The Hundred 2023

[Fleagle]

Here's last year's attendances at the blast for the 8 grounds used in the hundred.

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Thanks. That’s a bums on seats figure definitely. Suggests an average T20 attendance last year at OT of 10,185. Not as low as the made up stat posted earlier.

That said, Monday night was higher than all except one of those (such is the distorting effect of the roses rivalry that 6/7 of their Blast attendances are less than the mean). So I’d call that, to be fair, a decent to good crowd, particularly with the weather we’ve had this August. Rather a lot of partisan spin on both sides here I think.

 

[Steak Pie]

Here's last year's attendances at the blast for the 8 grounds used in the hundred.

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I know. Lancs about 10,000 average for the Blast, and 4-5,000 per Championship MATCH.

@Iamme does this a lot though, well weird.

Thanks. That’s a bums on seats figure definitely. Suggests an average T20 attendance last year at OT of 10,185. Not as low as the made up stat posted earlier.

That said, Monday night was higher than all except one of those (such is the distorting effect of the roses rivalry that 6/7 of their Blast attendances are less than the mean). So I’d call that, to be fair, a decent to good crowd, particularly with the weather we’ve had this August. Rather a lot of partisan spin on both sides here I think.

You can't walk more than 10 yards in Manc without seeing an advert for the 16.4, pretty much every school and club for miles around have been offered freebies, plus its advertised heavily on Sky and the BBC.

If you weren't into cricket you wouldn't have known the Blast was on.

And they got about 1,000-1,500 extra through the gate (maybe even less actual paying customers), a disgraceful return on investment.

So much money being sucked out of the game for such little return, it's heartbreaking watching this farce kill the game.

 

[brandon]

All about the mighty Rockets tomorrow

Houston?

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Is it because I lied when I was 16 and 4 months?

Fond memories of that track…

They played it to close MotD on this night:

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[mackembhoy]

How do the women get so much swing mind it's a good point. 2 in 2 games for whatever the green team is, from two different bowlers.

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The last one is a joke, the men are equally horrendous in the European League

 

[PeteFTM]

How do the women get so much swing mind it's a good point. 2 in 2 games for whatever the green team is, from two different bowlers.

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Lauren Bell is the Queen of Swing like, she’s class

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

The article asks Why can't T20 have the big audiences here that they have in Australia and India.

Several reasons -

Smaller ground capacities

No T20 cricket on BBC

No money to buy the very best players and have a 5 overseas players rule.

England is very much football obsessed. A distraction that doesn't exist in these other countries.

That shouldn't be a problem, IPL teams are only allowed 4 overseas players on the field at any time.

 

[Beau Peep]

15 man rosters.

8 local picks, pre-announced. Example: London Spirit picking solely from Middlesex and Essex.

4 supplementary picks selected via a draft. Would also have a ‘1 pick rule’ where if you picked a player, you can’t pick anymore from that County.

3 overseas picks, also selected via the draft

England contracted players are allocated to their relevant side, based off their County and don’t count towards the roster cap.

Deary me, read all that back and tell me you didnt just vomit on the keyboard and click "post reply". We aren't Major League Baseball and we aren't the IPL, we don't need all that manufactured "drama", English cricket fans are not the same as Indian cricket fans.

There was nothing much wrong with the Blast and if that had been given the profile, promotion and funding the Hundred has it would have grown cricket more, because it wouldn't have alienated proper county fans and it had a much broader reach.

The Blast was already reinvigorating county cricket, in 18 counties not seven cities. The cricket was better than I've seen in the Hundred and you had more of the "star" players because they were just playing for their actual contracted counties, under their contracts.

We didn't sacrifice all that we've sacrificed to watch Matthew Wade, Paul Stirling and Roly van der Merwe did we?

What the Hundred has done is massively increased the mainstream profile of domestic women's cricket, but I feel it could have been achieved using Blast as the vehicle and double heading in the same way.

 

[PeteFTM]

What the Hundred has done is massively increased the mainstream profile of domestic women's cricket, but I feel it could have been achieved using Blast as the vehicle and double heading in the same way.

Maybe it could, maybe it couldn’t. Many women are now household names because of the Hundred, because it’s less time consuming to stick a game on. I only started watching women’s cricket because of the Hundred so I’m living proof.

 

[Beau Peep]

Maybe it could, maybe it couldn’t. Many women are now household names because of the Hundred, because it’s less time consuming to stick a game on. I only started watching women’s cricket because of the Hundred so I’m living proof.

100 balls, 120 balls, there's not a lot of difference. People are watching it because of the profile it's been given. If women's Blast games were on TV daily in August I am sure they'd attract the same audiences. Host them on different days to the men's in prime time slots and they'd get even more.

 

[PeteFTM]

100 balls, 120 balls, there's not a lot of difference.

It’s an extra 20% mate, it’s more than people make on

 

[Hetty]

Root back today
Supercharges won toss and bat

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[JL1985]

These bowlers are shit.

 

[Eggman]

How do the women get so much swing mind it's a good point. 2 in 2 games for whatever the green team is, from two different bowlers.

I would have thought it was down to their slower paced bowling.

The longer a ball is in the air, with the correct seam/shine position etc, the more chance it has to swing.

Men bowling at that pace get the same result - Dermot Reeve, Darren Stevens

 

[PeteFTM]

I would have thought it was down to their slower paced bowling.

The longer a ball is in the air, with the correct seam/shine position etc, the more chance it has to swing.

Men bowling at that pace get the same result - Dermot Reeve, Darren Stevens

Similar to Brook swinging it when he was bowling 60mph in the Ashes

 

[mackembhoy]

I would have thought it was down to their slower paced bowling.

The longer a ball is in the air, with the correct seam/shine position etc, the more chance it has to swing.

Men bowling at that pace get the same result - Dermot Reeve, Darren Stevens

Similar to Brook swinging it when he was bowling 60mph in the Ashes

True enough, actually I dunno why I posted that. I remember my 16-18 year old self bowling I got some absolutely outrageous swing.

Well regardless just worth highlighting these class deliveries and to have a laugh at the ever comical European league

 

[Bamber]

Bloody Rockets man
Nah come on now ffs

 

[Hetty]

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Gone 1st ball
And another gone after 3 balls

 

[Oli Wagkz]

first game i've bothered with, canny first 3 balls

 

[Bamber]

 

[Hetty]

Swinging
3 wickets in 10 balls