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One Day Cup to be scrapped?

GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
Like the reporter said, it's the game I fell in love with, the club have given me some wonderful times
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Amen to that brother, a family friend took me to my first game in 96 and then my uncle bought me my first membership for the following season. I skipped school to watch Durham v the South Africans once, fully supported by my parents (“this is a once in a lifetime chance son”) and spent most of my summers thereafter either at Chester-le-street or watching teletext (page 340 onwards) waiting for it to refresh :lol:

For me it’s always been Durham > England.

GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
Support for your local dealer folks.
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:o
 

brandon said:
RL Cup fixtures don’t appear on the BBC website when looking at future cricket fixtures - but they do when you select the competition or individual clubs from the drop down menu.

Make of that what you will :eek:
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Then there’s this, great article -
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Marvellous article! A must-read!

I particularly liked “But taking established players from the counties and staging The Hundred on Test Match grounds also gives great opportunities to the younger cricketers who are left to contest the
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, and opportunities of a different sort to the venues that will host the matches. Players who got an unexpected chance to show what they could do in last season’s Bob Willis Trophy, when two England squads were bubbled and most overseas players were unavailable, will be getting another go when they appear in first-team List A cricket.

Some of the games will be played at famous headquarters like Old Trafford, Edgbaston and The Oval. Others will take place in marvellous outgrounds such as Sedbergh, York, Grantham, Scarborough, Gosforth and Welbeck. A few of my colleagues are keen to see what
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is like. I can’t wait to visit old friends in Cumbria or to make new ones in Lincolnshire.

There is a glorious irony about the fact that a new competition designed to stimulate interest in cricket around the urban centres has had the unintended consequence of sending many counties back to their heartlands or even to important venues outside their county boundaries but nevertheless in areas that have proved useful recruiting grounds ”
 
brandon said:
Amen to that brother, a family friend took me to my first game in 96 and then my uncle bought me my first membership for the following season. I skipped school to watch Durham v the South Africans once, fully supported by my parents (“this is a once in a lifetime chance son”) and spent most of my summers thereafter either at Chester-le-street or watching teletext (page 340 onwards) waiting for it to refresh :lol:

For me it’s always been Durham > England.



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Ha. Once it's gone it's gone basically. Everyone is free to do as they please but ask yourself this..... "If County Cricket goes, where do we expect to unearth the next Ben Stokes from?". It's not secret my views of the ECB on here, I've said for years, long before this 100 shite, that they are doing everything possible to ruin the red ball game. We are world champions and since then the ECB have gone above and beyond to ruin the 50 over county competition..... You would think they would jump all over it and shout it from the rooftops "we are the world champions" but nope..... I struggle to find a case to defend their actions to be honest, this isn't just an "anti Durham", feeling, this is many counties getting kicked all over, the likes of Kent, Leicester, for example. Some people have said to me "you're hoping this fails but it may well bankrupt cricket"... Well so be. ECB clowns as I keep calling them, nothing has persuaded me to change that view.
 
brandon said:
Link just goes to their homepage marra 🤷‍♂️
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Then click on to sport then on to cricket
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
Easy decision for me, I'll be sticking with watching Durham and taking one of my nephews with me who said "I don't want to go to Leeds to watch cricket, I want to watch Durham"

Like the reporter said, it's the game I fell in love with, the club have given me some wonderful times and I am actually looking forward to watching some "fringe players" in the One Day Cup as well as the usually good craic with the regulars assuming it all goes ahead.

Support for your local county folks.
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You're preaching to the converted.👍
 
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
Ha. Once it's gone it's gone basically. Everyone is free to do as they please but ask yourself this..... "If County Cricket goes, where do we expect to unearth the next Ben Stokes from?". It's not secret my views of the ECB on here, I've said for years, long before this 100 shite, that they are doing everything possible to ruin the red ball game. We are world champions and since then the ECB have gone above and beyond to ruin the 50 over county competition..... You would think they would jump all over it and shout it from the rooftops "we are the world champions" but nope..... I struggle to find a case to defend their actions to be honest, this isn't just an "anti Durham", feeling, this is many counties getting kicked all over, the likes of Kent, Leicester, for example. Some people have said to me "you're hoping this fails but it may well bankrupt cricket"... Well so be. ECB clowns as I keep calling them, nothing has persuaded me to change that view.
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Oh aye, you’re preaching to the converted marra - Dobell makes the point very well that none of these city franchises have a development pathway for producing cricketers. They’re just parasites who leach off the existing counties and their development systems.
 
brandon said:
Oh aye, you’re preaching to the converted marra - Dobell makes the point very well that none of these city franchises have a development pathway for producing cricketers. They’re just parasites who leach off the existing counties and their development systems.
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They can't even produce their own coaches. Ironically leaching two from Durham.
 
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