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The Hundred 2025

Redandwhitedust said:
I've been a member of Durham CCC for years. I don't get there that often as I live a long way away. But I'm a member because like SAFC it's my connection with where I grew up, and my family home.

I don't care if that's Durham CCC, Durham Dynamos or "Durham Cricket" (which I hate more than anything, but i can grit my teeth)

But the minute the club sells its soul, I'm out. If we get a 100 franchise where we will be "Northeast Vikings" or similar, I'm out.

I just want to support County Durham play cricket. As you say "is that too much to ask?"
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You can argue the club already acts like a North East franchise with its “for the North” branding and its preference, in the rare event it plays away from Riverside, to do so in Northumberland.
 

Voice of fair play said:
The investments will bring a better product and better quality of player.

Normally the better the product the more the interest.

The disappointing thing about the hundred was that it has not delivered on the promise of top quality players, hopefully the investment brings that quality up and interest will follow all through the game?

I imagine everybody wants that?

These people not daft they not going to spend 145 million for a half share without doing their homework.

Now the investment has come the narrative now seems to be changing from ‘ they will not be interested’ to ‘ they will get bored’

It depends where all the money goes?

But it’s a massive injection of cash for cricket in this country.

The challenge and it’s a massive challenge is getting the calendar right, embracing and accepting it, and all working together.
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It won’t like

It’ll just extend the hundred to the majority of the summer

I’ve not interest in watching it
 
I might add that I am not necessarily saying it is a bad thing for Durham to take a regional representative role. The top level has to do this to some extent. We have only ever had top level cricket for a minority of the 50 odd traditional counties of England and Wales. It’s the reason Stokes did the second half of his cricket development in Durham because he couldn’t do it in Cumberland. How many you have, how you tie in those areas that don’t have one, and perhaps, now, with the present government engaged in abolishing the last few remaining counties as administrative units and Durham already defunct in that respect, what you call them, are obviously all open questions. But it’s hardly a new concept.
 
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Voice of fair play said:
I said I have an interest in watching it, like I throughly enjoy the IPL without traveling to Delhi!

I enjoy watching the best short format players in the world pitting their wits against each other.

Which is surely up to me?
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Well you’ve had top quality cricket in your doorstep, why didn’t you go watch that at any point?
 
Fleagle said:
You can argue the club already acts like a North East franchise with its “for the North” branding and its preference, in the rare event it plays away from Riverside, to do so in Northumberland.
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Do they still play at Darlington now and again?

First DCC match i ever watched was at Darlo back in the late 90s. It's was class watching first class cricket in what felt like a village cricket club
 
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Redandwhitedust said:
Do they still play at Darlington now and again?

First DCC match i ever watched was at Darlo back in the late 90s. It's was class watching first class cricket in what felt like a village cricket club
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Seconds sometimes. They have 2nd XI T20 there this year. The ground is smaller now than in those early years of first class because they lost land on one side when they built the access road to the estate that sits on the old football ground when the football club moved.
 
MustardAndOnions said:
Well you’ve had top quality cricket in your doorstep, why didn’t you go watch that at any point?
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Not interested in Durham tbh, which again is my choice.

I grow up playing and watching club cricket almost everyday and Durham were a minor county at that point and it did not effect me falling in love with game.

So don’t see them as something that I personally follow.

Obviously very much respect those that do, purely a personal choice
 
Voice of fair play said:
Not interested in Durham tbh, which again is my choice.

I grow up playing and watching club cricket almost everyday and Durham were a minor county at that point and it did not effect me falling in love with game.

So don’t see them as something that I personally follow.

Obviously very much respect those that do, purely a personal choice
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I'm from Northumberland, but it's Lancashire for me.
And Melbourne Stars😔
 
Voice of fair play said:
Not interested in Durham tbh, which again is my choice.

I grow up playing and watching club cricket almost everyday and Durham were a minor county at that point and it did not effect me falling in love with game.

So don’t see them as something that I personally follow.

Obviously very much respect those that do, purely a personal choice
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What the fuck?

Utterly bizarre
 
Anyone who thinks that the money will be used to improve the standards of cricket in this country is (still) deluded.

Shame on everyone who helped usher in this farce.
 
MustardAndOnions said:
What the fuck?

Utterly bizarre
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What???

Having a personal choice what cricket team you support or follow???

Alfies Hat said:
I'm from Northumberland, but it's Lancashire for me.
And Melbourne Stars😔
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You not allowed to do that you bizarre;)

I also like Nottingham Forest as well as Sunderland as grew up watching Clough and that brilliant side.
Steak Pie said:
Anyone who thinks that the money will be used to improve the standards of cricket in this country is (still) deluded.

Shame on everyone who helped usher in this farce.
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Will it increase the interest though?
 
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Steak Pie said:
No.

We're seeing the McDonaldsifcation of the sport of cricket, the same bland product served up as many times as possible. Identical trams playing identical games all the time all year round.

Garbage.
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Makes you wonder why these well known proven astute businessmen are wanting to invest soo much money in ‘garbage’ ;)
 
Voice of fair play said:
Makes you wonder why these well known proven astute businessmen are wanting to invest soo much money in ‘garbage’ ;)
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Who will have had as many financial disasters as successes. They're chancers who can afford to walk away from financial disasters. What succeeds in India, with its billion of Cricket fanatics, won't necessarily succeed long term elsewhere with a much smaller following. These chancers can afford to take such risks. It's shit or bust and a totally unnecessary risk to the future of English cricket. Hope this resolves your "wonder".
Despite massive promotion and hype,Hundred following is already decreasing year on year.
Voice of fair play said:
I am if that’s ok?
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Of course,it is-each to his own. Just accept the serious risk involved.
 
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MustardAndOnions said:
How? There’s no team here, are you driving down to Leeds like?
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He doesn't view sport in the same way as the majority of sports fans. He doesn't follow individual teams, he is interested in watching the best quality players playing, no matter who they are playing for.

And that's not wrong but it's why his views polarise most on this board.
 
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