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Franchise cricket again

Raymondo said:
It just isn’t something that aligns properly with the way we absorb sport and the way we follow and fall in love with our clubs in this country.

It works in America, it doesn’t work here.
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It is more ingrained in America, which is likely as it's been in place for some time and they are still historically quite a new nation. The UK is generally territorial and this has transferred into sport.
 

The Breen Machine said:
It is more ingrained in America, which is likely as it's been in place for some time and they are still historically quite a new nation. The UK is generally territorial and this has transferred into sport.
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Exactly right. Interestingly, I don’t think it would be as accepted in Canada, where many franchises exist within the US dominant leagues.
 
Beautiful scenery in.the winelands at Paarl this afternoon. Hot day, big crowd. Rabada on the comeback from injury trail.

Yesterday in Jo burg I think it went to a super over in front of a sell out.
 
I do quite enjoy watching the SA20, however it is improved 1000% when Pietersen is not on commentary. Horrendous listening to him in the game today.
 
The Breen Machine said:
Soulless and boring stuff for me. I like watching the T20 Blast, but anything with a draft I have no interest in. Sport is about developing an affinity to your team and it's regular players, you can't do that when those players become interchangeable year on year.
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So do I and so do most people on here. But Blast attendances are nothing write home about these days. It’s a spectator sport. If the spectators bugger off, what have you got left?

Sorry if I always sound like a voice of despair on this. I used to love the Blast and they’ve destroyed it. I like to compare it with what Welsh rugby franchising did to the top tier of the club game there. And we should take warning with what it has now done to the national game, which is largely seen as a joke and an irrelevancy. That’s the path cricket is most of the way down. A path that leads to celebrating a narrow win over Japan.
 
I actually watched the first over of a BBL match this morning.

There's five minutes that I'm never going to get back.
 
I used to really enjoy watching the IPL back in the early 2010s, but now even though there has never been more cricket available to watch, I have never watched less of it.

Every franchise league feels exactly the same. They're all way too commercialised, squeezing adverts into every break in play, every single part of the game with its own sponsor, commentators feelins less like commentators and more like spokespeople for the sponsors.

Gone are the days when you could have an exciting, low scoring, T20 match. You used to get proper battles between batter and bowler. Now every league makes pitches as flat and batter friendly as possible because apparently more runs means more excitement.

It's just getting more and more boring every year.
 
mackinbristol said:
I used to really enjoy watching the IPL back in the early 2010s, but now even though there has never been more cricket available to watch, I have never watched less of it.

Every franchise league feels exactly the same. They're all way too commercialised, squeezing adverts into every break in play, every single part of the game with its own sponsor, commentators feelins less like commentators and more like spokespeople for the sponsors.

Gone are the days when you could have an exciting, low scoring, T20 match. You used to get proper battles between batter and bowler. Now every league makes pitches as flat and batter friendly as possible because apparently more runs means more excitement.

It's just getting more and more boring every year.
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I stopped watching IPL because the games kept getting slower & slower, even just 5 or 6 years ago an innings would take about 80-90 minutes but now it's close to 2 hours.
 
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