Not getting it are you…..?? I’m not surprised.
Everyone… really? You sure about that?
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The Hundred 2023
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Not getting it are you…..?? I’m not surprised.
Everyone… really? You sure about that?
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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The Metro Cup one-day game tomorrow (Sunday) Worcestershire vs Warwickshire totally sold out. Great news for the New Road club and for the competition.
Silly Point
Striker
And their local 16.4 side are playing as well. Great to see the cricket lovers of the West Midlands voting with their feet
Voice of fair play
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All I have ever wanted is simple more people watching cricket more people taking up the game
That’s it plain and simple and the core principle I have through every discussion on this subject.
I like to see people enjoying sport and enjoying cricket.
Can’t be bothered no more, going round in circles.
Must soo f***ing tiresome twisting and been negative about every single subject, I don’t know how you do it
It’s always great seeing loads of people watching cricket
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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Amending their rules now because they're desperate.
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Really confused by this??? They have sold around 800 tickets and members allocation is around 4000 of which 1000 will turn up.
Tickets went off sale online yesterday Friday as available on the day. So less than a third full estimated crowd of 2000.
Warwickshire had 500 tickets available to members and less than 100 sold.
The grievance people have about the t20 oh I mean the hundred is why cricket needs.to move on and thankfully most against it won't be here in 20 years time anyway.
That's the whole point.
Warwickshire highest T20 attendance 9,000 this season.
Hundred women's game record crowd at Edgbaston 10,50 more than T20 biggest crowd.. Men's game 13,000 first game on Thursday.
Show the real stats and figured don't make them up tonight your agenda you won't be here to see the hundred take over.
Just like the anti t20 brigade aren't 20 years ago.
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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My agenda? You seem to forget these counties are one county. These daft crisp sides in some cases are several counties so have a bigger target audience for a home side. The attendances will be a concern to the 16.4 chiefs especially as the competition is basically bankrupting the ECB and they're now having to change their own rules to accommodate 30+ year old Colin Ackermann to have a game.... They doesn't scream a prime competition costing millions does it? There are no further tickets on sale for Worcester tomorrow, that should be applauded massively. I haven't made up a single statistic in my post about Worcester. Worcestershire have announced a sell out with no further tickets for sale. I haven't made anything up at all. If you know better than advise the Worcester ticket office. It's excellent news for the one day cup which has been badly neglected by the ECB.
That poster just makes stats and numbers up out of thin air time and time again. Don’t worry about them.
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F*cking rich coming from you isn’t it?
Well, this may come as a shock, but it’s actually the opposite that is happening.
More people will take it up following England’s two World Cup wins and their recent Ashes fightback.
It’s clear as mud and massively flawed.
It’s all anyone ever does with you because you struggle to grasp even the most basic pieces of the English language.
It’s ‘soo f***ing tiresome’ trying to explain the most basic concepts to you, because time and time again we come back to this debate about ‘growing the game’ and time and time again you completely fail to understand the notion that ‘growing the game’ as the ECB want you to believe (to which you’ve fallen for hook, line and bastard sinker) is a massive oxymoron when the administrators are ACTUALLY shrinking it by cutting off ATLEAST (I’d argue it’s more) 55% of their core support.
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Sunday 13th August
Women 11am
Northern Supercharges v Mancheter Originals
Headingley, Leeds
SOLD OUT
Men 2.30pm
Northern Supercharges v Mancheter Originals
Headingley, Leeds
SOLD OUT
Women 2.30pm
Birmingham Phoenix v Oval Invincibles
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Men 3pm
Birmingham Phoenix v Oval Invincibles
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Women 11am
Northern Supercharges v Mancheter Originals
Headingley, Leeds
SOLD OUT
Men 2.30pm
Northern Supercharges v Mancheter Originals
Headingley, Leeds
SOLD OUT
Women 2.30pm
Birmingham Phoenix v Oval Invincibles
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Men 3pm
Birmingham Phoenix v Oval Invincibles
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Sillypoint
Central Defender
Is that much different from the ridiculous loan system in the CC
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
The rules aren't amended though in the CC
Aidan11
Striker
This tournament may get a few youngsters doing that but the tournament hasn't taken off. Success by the England teams have more chance of doing that.
Current long standing cricket fans dislike the Hundred because of the way the ECB has tried to shit on traditional cricket and its fans to try to make is a success.
We are the current 50 over World champions after 44 years of trying. What do the ECB do? Downgrade it to what it is now.
The ECB were miffed they didn't copyright the T20 and had to watch as the format took off in a massive way in India.
They came up with the Hundred and patented it. They probably thought the big bucks will roll in. Bizarrely nobody else wants it. I wonder why that is.
My concern is the longer the Hundred goes on the more potential damage it will do to cricket in this country.
Scrap it and put some of the T20 games on the BBC including finals day. I know the BBC moan about T20 being too long but surely putting cricket on is better than the rubbish they put on at present. Never seems to be an issue televising football.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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This is my main worry. Very very concerned as this competition is costing an absolute fortune and they're now at the stage where they're having to amend their own rules to draft Colin Ackermann in for a game.... Is this really value for money??
Voice of fair play
Striker
Don’t disagree with most of that apart from the solely putting downgrading of 50 over cricket at the ECBs door.
Once T20 took off like it did, it was inevitable 50 over cricket domestically would be less high profile which has happened in every country not just England.
However on your other points broadly agree up to a point.
My argument is not to defend the hundred as such but more to defend the need to have a major short form tournament in peak time to attract new fans, I believe the sport badly needs due to decreasing numbers at ground level.
Would actually prefer and I have always said as a player and follower of cricket for 50 years would prefer that tournament to be 20 overs and not 100 balls!
At the moment unfortunately the current tournament is 100 balls rather than 20 overs and unfortunately only covers a certain amount of the country and totally get and understand peoples view it needs to be spread more geographically.
However it’s on the telly every day and fans in the ground seem to be having a great time watching cricket.
I personally think that a good thing and will never be a person celebrating the fact a cricket match wherever that maybe has a low crowd!!
Because that’s the exact opposite of what cricket needs
I’d disagree with that. The 50 over stopped packing out Lords long before this novelty was being conceived. Before the Blast even although the advent of T20 probably accelerated its decline. That’s why I compared to the 90s. It’s not been the same since back then.
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Struts
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Can’t disagree with anything said there.
On the surface it comes across as a huge success but for the amount of time, investment and resources put into it, it’s largely flopped. When you draw a lower viewing figure to BBC than Rugby League & Snooker then you’re properly fucked.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Canny knock that like from Overton 83 off 30.
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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And having amended their rules to call up Ackermann they end up not playing him. What a mess
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