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The Hundred 2024


The Canadian T20 has begun tonight (currently live on TNT Sport).

It has bigger stars than the 16.4. With the Yanks T20 also in progress boasting big names, it really does put the 16.4 in perspective and with it now making bigger losses than the county championship, and the ultimate embarrassment of Andrew Strauss wanting to buy a franchise...

It's time this dying dog was put to sleep.
 
Parkside said:
Not difficult when so predictable. Prices for T20 QF upwards from £32 Won't be much away support.
But that is elitist and not an issue of amusement.
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Prices for cricket as a whole shocking imo.

The prices for red ball test match at a Lords test for example nothing short of a disgrace
 
Voice of fair play said:
Prices for cricket as a whole shocking imo.

The prices for red ball test match at a Lords test for example nothing short of a disgrace
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Yeh, but they only got 2 days revenue for the W.Indies test and I can't see any of the tests in both series going the distance which means a massive loss of revenue for the game this season. These Red ball supporters are snobs, I read it on here, but nevertheless, are subsidising the hundred. They regard it as hit and giggle which is grossly offensive.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
It was as simple as that for me. I got into cricket by first playing it, then watching England, first in one day, then the tests.

Once Durham went first class I followed them, and a result of regularly watching a team is you get to know the players, and by following a team you pick up on the players of other teams as well.

With the 100, because I'm watching the sport from a distance, without really caring who wins, I don't tend to notice or remember individual players like I did when I followed England and Durham.
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Yeah I get that. And certainly when Durham got first class status as it made a difference. Although we kind of followed them before but the minor counties was more a thing then. Growing up in the 1970s you really felt that there was a continuum from the junior team you played in to the lesser XI adult teams to the first XI whose best players might even form the core of the county XI. And from there to the first class game and to England. I think the game lost something with the loss of that connection.

But maybe that’s why the other losses of connection just feel like more of the same. More progression in the same direction. The professional game has totally divorced from the recreational game and is increasingly divorced from the structure I grew up with even in the professional game.

But in the end it has to be fit for purpose. I only half wind people up when I call the 18 counties franchises as well. They are. Old franchises but franchises all the same.. All except Durham are now 100 years old and most date back to the century before last. But franchises they still are. Most counties still don’t have a golden ticket. Just as they expected Durham to make do with Yorkshire for most of the 20th century we still expect Northumberland to make do with Durham and even play some of our home matches there. There’s lots I don’t like about the hundred but the reduced number of teams is something I think is worth exploring. That’s the point. if it didn’t stop me as a kid getting into cricket that my nearest franchise was in Leeds I’m open to persuasion.
 
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Parkside said:
Yeh, but they only got 2 days revenue for the W.Indies test and I can't see any of the tests in both series going the distance which means a massive loss of revenue for the game this season. These Red ball supporters are snobs, I read it on here, but nevertheless, are subsidising the hundred. They regard it as hit and giggle which is grossly offensive.
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It’s been overly expensive for a number of years now in test cricket irrespective who England are playing, especially at Lords.

I don’t know about you but if Lords could guarantee more days play I don’t think they would lower the price

Then again it’s overly expensive at football grounds as well.

And food and beer at grounds in both sports pricing also a disgrace
 
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A slightly different perspective on the format, though not on the professional structure. I have spent the last three nights at NYSD hundred ball games. They play T20 midweek knockout games in June and the first half of July. They play a second midweek competition in this format in the second half of July, and in August. It’s ideal as the night begin to draw in.

And the NYSD is I think the only ECB Premier league in the entire greater Northeast (ie Yorks as well) that still at least in theory plays time cricket not pure overs cricket on a Saturday (you don’t get many points for a draw, but at least they still exist). So it’s fondly thought of by traditionalists like me as well.

The two formats can coexist. I wish they had when I had been playing. It doesn’t have to be a battle where both sides call the other a bunch of twats. And away from the old fogies who only watch and moan, I don’t think it is a battle.
 
Fleagle said:
Yeah I get that. And certainly when Durham got first class status as it made a difference. Although we kind of followed them before but the minor counties was more a thing then. Growing up in the 1970s you really felt that there was a continuum from the junior team you played in to the lesser XI adult teams to the first XI whose best players might even form the core of the county XI. And from there to the first class game and to England. I think the game lost something with the loss of that connection.

But maybe that’s why the other losses of connection just feel like more of the same. More progression in the same direction. The professional game has totally divorced from the recreational game and is increasingly divorced from the structure I grew up with even in the professional game.

But in the end it has to be fit for purpose. I only half wind people up when I call the 18 counties franchises as well. They are. Old franchises but franchises all the same.. All except Durham are now 100 years old and most date back to the century before last. But franchises they still are. Most counties still don’t have a golden ticket. Just as they expected Durham to make do with Yorkshire for most of the 20th century we still expect Northumberland to make do with Durham and even play some of our home matches there. There’s lots I don’t like about the hundred but the reduced number of teams is something I think is worth exploring. That’s the point. if it didn’t stop me as a kid getting into cricket that my nearest franchise was in Leeds I’m open to persuasion.
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Superb post.

I think a lot of professional sports have disconnected from the recreational game. Cricket maybe more than most.

The less teams idea is interesting and i agree its not necessarily a bad idea. But the way the teams are laid out alienates.

I dont identify with the northern team. When they play I don't care if they win. Much I suppose as a Somerset based cricket fan isn't going to feel a close connection with Welsh Fire.

Maybe the answer is to move the teams around. You could have a single London club playing at both the Oval and Lords alternatively

The Northern team could alternate between Durham and Leeds.

The Welsh team between Cardiff and Somerset etc

You could even have it so when the men's team are at home at one ground, the women are at the other one the day after/before.

Of course there's no way that woukd happen. Probably too complicated to schedule for TV
 
Friday 26th July

Women 3pm
Northern Superchargers Women v Trent Rockets Women
Headingley, Leeds

Men 6.35pm
Northern Superchargers Men v Trent Rockets Men
Headingley, Leeds
 
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