The 16.4 is haemorrhaging money

[brandon]

Edit - well done @Markymarkspunkybunch , you beat me to it and your sarcasm was far better and wittier .

What they needed was one competition attracting the best players in the world in a designated window, the IPL format clearly works.

You mean the T20 Blast format? Cause you do realise we created the format and sold it to the world…?

 

[Voice of fair play]

Edit - well done @Markymarkspunkybunch , you beat me to it and your sarcasm was far better and wittier .


You mean the T20 Blast format? Cause you do realise we created the format and sold it to the world…?

I do the one that I praise every year, year on year as great entertainment, in fact I am probably the biggest fan of T20 cricket on here.

 

[Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan]

The simple answer is to deduct Durham 12 points.

 

[Struts]

What they needed was one competition attracting the best players in the world in a designated window, the IPL format clearly works.

Not against a franchise league in England as I have been in the past but the time to do it was 8-10 years ago. The ship has well and truly sailed.

Best way forward would be a Two division Blast with Div.1 being treated like a franchise league. 2 lesgues of 9, 12 game campaign, 2 down & 2 up (1 promoted as Champions and 1 promoted via play offs).

Women’s Hundred teams carry over into Womens Blast along with a new 9th team based at either Durham or Somerset/Bristol.

 

[Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan]

How about a competition with say, 8 men per team and 3 women.

 

[SAFC11]

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[Twisted]

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Thats a horrendous decision (without reading the article yet) imagining the money they'll end up committed to players they won't be playing

 

[Fleagle]

Edit - well done @Markymarkspunkybunch , you beat me to it and your sarcasm was far better and wittier .


You mean the T20 Blast format? Cause you do realise we created the format and sold it to the world…?

And the world did it better. The direct Indian equivalent of the Blast is the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Watched much of that on global tv? Been stunned by the stars it attracts? Neither have I.

But the BCCI realised from the start that it also needed an elite competition attracting top stars and capable of being a tv event. And it did it very well. We realised this very late, did it very badly, and still have loads of people in denial about it.

 

[Eggman]

I was really confident that the 100 would be a success initially but I’m much less so now.

It’s the lack of identity that makes it so poor.

No Durham, not even a combined ‘North’ team.

When Bairstow and Root don’t play for a Headingley based team it just becomes a kids ‘Fantasy XI’.

The 10 ball over is just a failed attempt to make it funky (to quote Nasser)

T20 Blast should have been made more exciting - less games, better overseas players

 

[Voice of fair play]

It’s the lack of identity that makes it so poor.

No Durham, not even a combined ‘North’ team.

When Bairstow and Root don’t play for a Headingley based team it just becomes a kids ‘Fantasy XI’.

The 10 ball over is just a failed attempt to make it funky (to quote Nasser)

T20 Blast should have been made more exciting - less games, better overseas players

Personally I think it needed to change a little bit to make it more like the IPL and big bash.

The IPL has been a tremendous success that is fact and one of the reasons imo is each game is a stand alone event,

Dont think having 6/7 games on one night like in the blast is the same thing.

The first problem they created with the hundred was there nothing wrong with an extremely successful T20 format, so change that and make it less balls and more complicated was a fundamental mistake imo.


I would have had no issue (although agree plenty would have) to have had a 10 team tournament spread geographically across the country in the middle of the summer ( school holidays) but kept the format as T20.

That had more chance of success imo than reinventing the wheel.

Another failing is I always thought the purpose of it was to attract top world class stars and have failed miserably on that score.

 

[Aidan11]

Cricket supporters are territorial. In other words they support their local club and county. In theory we should be supporting Northern Superchagers because they are the closest franchise but how can we when there is a lack of Durham players in the squad ( I don't know how many of our lads are contracted to them but I'm guessing it's no more than two).

The ECB said they were targeting a new audience (mums and kids) but it's not that simple in a country where football is so dominant.

Some of the rules are daft, the big name players aren't interested, the commentators were told to hype up the game. They scored an own goal taking on KP Snacks as the main sponsor. The Ashes has been shafted to early season when it should have dominated the Summer.

The format has absolutely nothing that can make it massively popular. This season will be its third and with interest 20% down last year from the first year it will be interesting to see how much interest there is left. Richard Thompson is in a difficult position. When he was at Surrey he was very outspoken about the 100. Now as head of the ECB he has to try and make it work.

Good luck with that.

 

[Iamme]

Let’s be honest, it was a stupid idea.

Alienating your core fans by changing the rules and franchises which eliminate any sense of identity is just stupidity. I couldn’t tell you a single player on the “roster” of the northern wizards (sponsored by toblerone), and have probably watched about an hour of it in total

What should they have done?

Promoted the blast. Got it on free to air tv, advertised it. Spent the money on foreign superstars if needed.

As dexy rightly says, if a gimmick doesn’t make money to start with, the joke gets old and it doesn’t make money in a few years.

BBC Costa 185 a year. Not free.

YouTube is free no licence needed and all games on there apart from when on the BBC and not on YouTube

Not paying 185 a year for this mythical free tv.

 

[Twisted]

Cricket supporters are territorial. In other words they support their local club and county. In theory we should be supporting Northern Superchagers because they are the closest franchise but how can we when their very existence negatively impacts how strong a side we can put out now and threatens the entire future of the domestic cricket scene we love.

Tidied for you there marra