It’s boring like, just watch it or don’t.
Would be good for this thread to be about the games not just people crying about it’s existence.
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The Hundred 2023
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Would be good for this thread to be about the games not just people crying about it’s existence.
Walking the dog. Came close to saying I might catch the closing overs when we got back. Realised that meant it’s probably not for me.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
Been outside earlier, like a winter's evening with the weather.
Sillypoint
Central Defender
i think that’s how they will try and “fix it”
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Steak Pie
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How did Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Kane Williamson, Joe Root, Babar Azam, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Pat Cummins, Shaheen Afridi, Ollie Robinson, Kyle Jamieson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood, Mohammed Rizwan, Dawid Malan, etc etc etc etc etc etc, get on in the IPL this year?
Seeing as you've ignored this question before, I'll answer it for you. They didn't.
Those are the best players in the world and they didn't go to the IPL. And given that the BCCI won't let their best players play in any franchise shite, what quality players were you expecting?
It would be better still if people could accept alternate viewpoints rather than criticising that right in colourful terms.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Not sure what your point is as I am saying I am really disappointed with the quality of overseas players and the hundred hasn’t delivered as promised.
As far as your other point, some of the above are no where near the best T20 players in the world not even close.
Labschagne, Khawaja, Root, Anderson, Broad, Robinson don’t even play T20 for the national side??
Voice of fair play
Striker
I agree there is loads of valid points that people make well against the hundred and I respect that alternate view.
1. It should be 20 overs
2. Should be more widespread in the country
3.Quality should be better.
All respectful views.
However what prompts me to post is the utter nonsense that is said that I don’t respect.
1.The blast is better standard (off course it not as the best players from it selected for the hundred.
2. Almost every game of the hundred somebody on to say how shit it is (when simply the same as any other short format)
3.Pettiest of people wanting it to rain hence spoiling peoples night.
39 of 26 needed
Bamber
Striker
think they can do it?
Aye, if they dont loose wickets one after another
Steak Pie
Striker
The point is that you wanted unicorns.
The IPL isn't as star studded as the sycophantic commentary tries to tell you it is, and that is the biggest tournament in the world with money that no other board can get anywhere close to. The 16.4 was never going to have superstar names and if you believed the hype then more fool you.
Those players are some of the best and biggest names in world cricket, they don't play the IPL.
The 16.4 is playing out exactly as predicted. Some of the same old journeymen smashing dozens of sixes over tiny boundaries, in a slightly shorter timeframe, in front of a typical T20 crowd.
And the game in this country is already £75m lighter for the privilege of suffering this farce.
The Breen Machine
Striker
I don’t know anyone who watches it.
I do know however that many passing or even non cricket fans watched this years Ashes.
Which top players are on show tonight? 38 year Ravi Bopara and Australia’s 5th choice wicket keeper?
I do know however that many passing or even non cricket fans watched this years Ashes.
Which top players are on show tonight? 38 year Ravi Bopara and Australia’s 5th choice wicket keeper?
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Voice of fair play
Striker
A lot of them players are not the best T20 players in the world as I said they don’t even play for their national side at T20.
Others like Smith and Williamson have proved poor in recent years at IPL and are also not world class T20 players
The IPL in the main has the best T20 players in the world playing in it, apart from the Pakistan players for different reasons other than quality.
The Hundred been disappointing because it hasn’t attracted the quality overseas players the IPL does and not enough of the top quality English players are playing in it either which is also disappointing, it would be unthinkable for the top Indian players to miss large parts of the IPL.
A county such as ours should be able to have a top class short format tournament in a window and attract a lot better quality, it’s not unicorns to be expect that.
Even the recent new South Africa T20 tournament earlier in the year had better quality.
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What a finish that was
