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The Hundred 2025

Parkside said:
Basically it boils down to whether you accept that limitations that Franchise demands, supposedly, is the best way forward to spread cricket nationwide. English cricket had a very good tv deal prior to the concept of Franchise cricket and both ground attendances and tv figures have fallen year on year in the Hundred competition since its conception. Running down all other forms and wholly relying wholly on an already falling form doesn't appear to be sound financial logic.
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Everyone accepts the limitations at some level because nobody advocates 53 sides, one for each county. The only argument is whether you want 18, or 8, or some number in between. The principle that every county can’t have equal status was set 150 years ago.

Someone commented that only Durham and Somerset really miss out because the other counties have someone nearby. But self evidently, Northumberland, Devon, Cornwall and most of the Welsh counties miss out even more. And they don’t just miss out by getting a virtual second tier competition in August. They’ve had actual 2nd tier competition all year for a century or more.

I would suggest that this isn’t an argument in principle about having two tiers it’s a parochial argument about which tier Durham should be in. When it reduces to that, I am obviously on the side of “the top one” but I think we should be a bit more honest about it.
 
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Voice of fair play said:
I find the fact that every single angle possible is sought to have a go at it tiresome tbh.

Loads of people have said there is a lovely family feel and loads of kids enjoying themselves at the games.

There is fair points like 100 balls shit should be 20 overs, should be more geographically spread and graphics on the telly shit, all fair points all fair criticism.

However there is other nonsense like the standard worse than the blast?

Impossible as they cherry picking the best players from it.

Let’s face it for the sake of argument if there was a brilliant game today, plenty of people would still find a angle to have go and hardly any would admit it was a very good game even if it worse?

There is faults with ‘The Hundred’ I can see that, but they are some positives and it is possible for a good entertaining game of cricket in it just like in any other format
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I don 't disagree with any of the above but it doesn't address any of the argument that I made in my post.
Fleagle said:
Everyone accepts the limitations at some level because nobody advocates 53 sides, one for each county. The only argument is whether you want 18, or 8, or some number in between. The principle that every county can’t have equal status was set 150 years ago.

Someone commented that only Durham and Somerset really miss out because the other counties have someone nearby. But self evidently, Northumberland, Devon, Cornwall and most of the Welsh counties miss out even more. And they don’t just miss out by getting a virtual second tier competition in August. They’ve had actual 2nd tier competition all year for a century or more.

I would suggest that this isn’t an argument in principle about having two tiers it’s a parochial argument about which tier Durham should be in. When it reduces to that, I am obviously on the side of “the top one” but I think we should be a bit more honest about it.
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Yes,as usual you present a cogent and logical post. Every region obviously can't have equal status - I was a Durham member in their minor counties era and was perfectly content with the product on offer.
The thread however is about how best to promote the game amongst youngsters. Reducing the accessibility from 18 centres to 8 and incurring substantial losses in the process doesn't appear to me as the most effective or practical method. Nor is comparing the size or demographics of T20 and hundred products when one is given substantial marketing and the other virtually none.
 
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The men's games are all following the same pattern so far, team batting first posts an under-par score and it gets chased down
 
Sunday 10th August

Women 11am
Southern Brave Women v Birmingham Phoenix Women
Utilita Bowl, Southampton

Men 2.30pm
Southern Brave Men v Birmingham Phoenix Men
Utilita Bowl, Southampton

Women 2.30pm
Trent Rockets Women v Northern Superchargers Women
Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Men 6pm
Trent Rockets Men v Northern Superchargers Men
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
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Birmingham Phoenix won the toss and bowl

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