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The Hundred 2025


Birmingham Phoenix​

Men's
Liam Livingstone, Ben Duckett, Trent Boult (o), Jacob Bethell, Benny Howell, Adam Milne (o), Dan Mousley, Tim Southee (o), Will Smeed, Chris Wood, Aneurin Donald, Joe Clarke, Harry Moore, Tom Helm.

Women's
Ellyse Perry (o), Amy Jones, Emily Arlott, Megan Schutt (o), Hannah Baker, Charis Pavely, Sterre Kalis, Ailsa Lister, Georgia Voll (o), Emma Lamb, Georgie Boyce, Marie Kelly, Bethan Ellis.

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London Spirit​

Men's
Jamie Smith, Liam Dawson, Daniel Worrall, Kane Williamson (o), Richard Gleeson, Olly Stone, Ollie Pope, Keaton Jennings, Jamie Overton, David Warner (o), Luke Wood, Ashton Turner (o), Jafer Chohan, Wayne Madsen.

Women's
Grace Harris (o), Danielle Gibson, Sarah Glenn, Charlie Dean, Deepti Sharma (o), Georgia Redmayne (o), Eva Gray, Cordelia Griffith, Tara Norris, Sophie Munro, Heather Knight, Issy Wong, Rebecca Tyson.

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Manchester Originals​

Men's
Jos Buttler, Phil Salt, Heinrich Klaasen (o), Matthew Hurst, Scott Currie, Josh Tongue, Tom Hartley, Sonny Baker, Tom Aspinwall, Noor Ahmad (o), Rachin Ravindra (o), Lewis Gregory, Ben McKinney, George Garton.

Women's
Amelia Kerr (o), Sophie Ecclestone, Beth Mooney (o), Lauren Filer, Mahika Gaur, Eve Jones, Kathryn Bryce, Fi Morris, Danielle Gregory, Deandra Dottin (o), Seren Smale, Ella McCaughan, Alice Monaghan.

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Northern Superchargers​

Men's
Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, David Miller (o), Mitchell Santner (o), Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Ben Dwarshuis (o), Graham Clark, Pat Brown, Tom Lawes, Zak Crawley, Dan Lawrence, Michael Pepper, Dawid Malan.

Women's
Phoebe Litchfield (o), Annabel Sutherland (o), Georgia Wareham (o), Kate Cross, Bess Heath, Linsey Smith, Hollie Armitage, Alice Davidson-Richards, Grace Ballinger, Davina Perrin, Grace Potts, Lucy Higham, Ella Claridge.

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Oval Invincibles​

Men's
Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Tom Curran, Jordan Cox, Rashid Khan (o), Saqib Mahmood, Sam Billings, Gus Atkinson, Nathan Sowter, Donovan Ferreira (o), Tawanda Muyeye, Jason Behrendorff (o), Miles Hammond.

Women's
Marizanne Kapp (o), Alice Capsey, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Amanda-Jade Wellington (o), Meg Lanning (o), Tash Farrant, Ryana Macdonald-Gay, Sophia Smale, Jo Gardner, Rachel Slater, Paige Scholfield, Phoebe Franklin, Kalea Moore.

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Southern Brave​

Men's
James Vince, Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills, Chris Jordan, Faf du Plessis (o), Leus Du Plooy, Craig Overton, Laurie Evans, Finn Allen (o), Danny Briggs, James Coles, Michael Bracewell (o), Reece Topley, Jordan Thompson.

Women's
Laura Wolvaardt (o), Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Maia Bouchier, Lauren Bell, Freya Kemp, Georgia Adams, Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Rhianna Southby, Sophie Devine (o), Chloe Tryon (o), Mady Villiers, Josie Groves, Phoebe Graham.

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Trent Rockets​

Men's
Joe Root, Marcus Stoinis (o), Tom Banton, John Turner, Sam Cook, Sam Hain, Tom Alsop, Calvin Harrison, David Willey, Lockie Ferguson (o), Max Holden, George Linde (o), Adam Hose, Rehan Ahmed.

Women's
Ash Gardner (o), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Alana King (o), Heather Graham (o), Bryony Smith, Grace Scrivens, Kirstie Gordon, Alexa Stonehouse, Natasha Wraith, Cassidy McCarthy, Jodi Grewcock, Emma Jones, Ellie Threlkeld.

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Welsh Fire​

Men's
Chris Woakes, Steve Smith (o), Jonny Bairstow, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Abell, Luke Wells, Stephen Eskinazi, David Payne, Paul Walter, Riley Meredith (o), Chris Green (o), Saif Zaib, Josh Hull, Mason Crane.

Women's
Hayley Matthews (o), Tammy Beaumont, Jess Jonassen (o), Shabnim Ismail (o), Sarah Bryce, Georgia Elwiss, Freya Davies, Georgia Davis, Emily Windsor, Beth Langston, Sophia Dunkley, Katie George, Katie Levick.
 
English cricket is marching into a slow, managed death. If the 100 was the answer then it’s pretty much confirmed they want euthanasia rather than a cure to the decline of the sport. Watch it get carved up by the Saudis
 
LetsPretendWeScored said:
English cricket is marching into a slow, managed death. If the 100 was the answer then it’s pretty much confirmed they want euthanasia rather than a cure to the decline of the sport. Watch it get carved up by the Saudis
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not sure how basically it saving a lot of counties from going under and providing them money to run for years is Euthanasia??
 
Voice of fair play said:
That wasn’t what he was saying though?

The Hundred has just brought in money that will keep counties solvent for the foreseeable future, not just some money massive massive money, not sure how that matches with you slow death and Euthanasia point???
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But the negotiations have hit a snag over sponsorship and broadcast rights. The £500 m sale is not so clever if it means losing much of rights which are worth £ billions.
Slow death mightn't be so slow.
Clearly the same hasn't been finalised if they're still negotiating.
Deal not same
 
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Parkside said:
But the negotiations have hit a snag over sponsorship and broadcast rights. The £500 m sale is not so clever if it means losing much of rights which are worth £ billions.
Slow death mightn't be so slow.
Clearly the same hasn't been finalised if they're still negotiating.
Deal not same
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As you would usually be the first to argue, the hundred is not generating anything close to billions in revenue from sponsorship and broadcast rights. That’s an absurd claim. Its anchor sponsor, K P Snacks, pays less than a million a year. The broadcast deal is more like £200M but by far the dominant thing that is selling is England rights. If you ascribed 5% to the hundred and a fraction of a percent to the Blast I think you’d be about right for domestic cricket. So the hundred is worth low double-figure millions in revenue at best at present. That’s why it shows a trading loss.

ECB might still have been better keeping the tournament and trying to grow that revenue itself. You can argue that (or, as you more usually do, you can certainly argue based on its current trading performance that it should be the whole thing). But you can’t argue that they’re giving up billions by not doing so.
 
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ECB's justification for lavish spending on the Hundred was that it attracted the major share of the overall TV rights.Or have ECB been telling porkies?
Additionally,, compared to TV rights,sponsorship deals are quite minimal
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As you would usually be the first to argue, the hundred is not generating anything close to billions in revenue from sponsorship and broadcast rights. That’s an absurd claim. Its anchor sponsor, K P Snacks, pays less than a million a year. The broadcast deal is more like £200M but by far the dominant thing that is selling is England rights. If you ascribed 5% to the hundred and a fraction of a percent to the Blast I think you’d be about right for domestic cricket. So the hundred is worth low double-figure millions in revenue at best at present. That’s why it shows a trading loss.

ECB might still have been better keeping the tournament and trying to grow that revenue itself. You can argue that (or, as you more usually do, you can certainly argue based on its current trading performance that it should be the whole thing). But you can’t argue that they’re giving up billions by not doing so.
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Even if £200m figure is correct ,which will be inviting and with potential growth is £500m for forgoing such rights such a good deal?
Ongoing not inviting
 
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Parkside said:
ECB's justification for lavish spending on the Hundred was that it attracted the major share of the overall TV rights.Or have ECB been telling porkies?
Additionally,, compared to TV rights,sponsorship deals are quite minimal
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Yeah, but even if we don’t agree on every aspect of the Hundred I think you and I agree that argument was always bullshit. It’s England that people buy. I suppose there is a medium term danger there which lies in the new owners of the Hundred being too successful and leading to the same level of loss of interest in international cricket that we have seen in most of the smaller nations and even to a degree in India. But at the moment it’s England that sells English cricket.
 
Fleagle said:
Yeah, but even if we don’t agree on every aspect of the Hundred I think you and I agree that argument was always bullshit. It’s England that people buy. I suppose there is a medium term danger there which lies in the new owners of the Hundred being too successful and leading to the same level of loss of interest in international cricket that we have seen in most of the smaller nations and even to a degree in India. But at the moment it’s England that sells English cricket.
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Well if we can retain the vast majority of TV revenue without the Hundred the ECB propaganda machine has worked wonders. Almost worth sacrificing the 4 weeks in high summer lost to the Hundred.
And I quite enjoy the development format of the 50_over component.
There's also potential growth for domestic T20 with better marketing
 
Bostock in today's Independent
“I think there will be expansion and when that day comes we are ready. In terms of facilities, demographics, having an international stadium, likely investment, putting a team together, we are ready to go".

Saudis lined up.
 
Parkside said:
Bostock in today's Independent
“I think there will be expansion and when that day comes we are ready. In terms of facilities, demographics, having an international stadium, likely investment, putting a team together, we are ready to go".

Saudis lined up.
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Newcastle Scimitars?
 
Sillypoint said:
not sure how basically it saving a lot of counties from going under and providing them money to run for years is Euthanasia??
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The ECB annual handout of income mainly from international match gate and TV receipts which are ongoing is the main source of income at present. The £27m gift is a one off which isn't so massive given that the average annual turn over for a County is circa £10m- it's comes with a permanent cost of lost TV revenue,downgrading T20 leading to loss of revenue and loss of international revenue by bookending it to the season- leading to euthanasia in the long term.
These Franchise owners are in it for profit i.e. taking out more than they put in. Counties weren't going under - most,if not all,return annual profits -all would if central funds were distributed evenly.
 
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