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The Hundred 2025

Voice of fair play said:
Could not agree more when I was kid there was the football season and cricket season and don’t get me wrong I love football as much as the next bloke and was better at football than cricket.

However I was still happy to stop football for 3/4 months to play cricket.

Now it’s football football for kids and even summer leagues which is absolutely crazy imo.

Football needs to switch off for a two or three months and it simply doesn’t.
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It's entirely up to the kids,or more specifically their parents, to make the choice of a summer sport. Cricket clubs,both local and county,need to be offering free coaching and playing taster sessions during the summer holidays and get into schools beforehand in the summer term. My club is utilised every weekday during the school summer break for this purpose I await with great interest to see how this franchise grassroots "dowry" is allocated and utilised.
 
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So basically every Durham player apart from Rhodes has put themselves forward for the draft, even Bedingham as an overseas. Not sure if any of them will be getting picked mind.
 
Can't believe Jimmy has put his name forwards, when he hasn't events played a white ball game in what seems a decade and now he's 40-odd
 
SuperSub said:
So basically every Durham player apart from Rhodes has put themselves forward for the draft, even Bedingham as an overseas. Not sure if any of them will be getting picked mind.
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To be honest, why wouldn’t you? They do this for a living and it’s an opportunity to be paid more. You wouldn’t turn it down just because you couldn’t resist playing in the one-day cup.
 
Fleagle said:
To be honest, why wouldn’t you? They do this for a living and it’s an opportunity to be paid more. You wouldn’t turn it down just because you couldn’t resist playing in the one-day cup.
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I wouldn't begrudge any of them taking the extra money that comes with the hundred, it was more pointing out that players like Glover, Killeen etc putting themselves forward when they can't even make the Durham white ball side is a waste of time, they have zero chance of getting drafted in this.
 
Sillypoint said:
he'll want to play with his tailenders mates at the Oval Invincibles

This for this years Draft? he didnt even get picked up last year
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I suspect England had a strong influence on him not getting picked up last year, I suspect it’ll be the same case this year too. He won’t get picked up at any price because England will have too much of a say on his availability.
 
At what point does the Blast get sacked off completely because of this?

With the money the counties are receiving because of the Hundred do we just call it quits with Blast and start bringing the ODC back into prominence in the calendar?
 
Probably wont, the counties now have a bit more cash to promote the games, make it a bigger event for the Blast, kids and families dont really go to the ODC, its just too long
 
Sillypoint said:
Probably wont, the counties now have a bit more cash to promote the games, make it a bigger event for the Blast, kids and families dont really go to the ODC, its just too long
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I don’t if they’ll drop the blast as it’s pretty much the only thing that makes counties money even if it doesn’t make very much compared with the windfall they’ve had from the hundred. But I don’t agree with you about the one day. I think the crowds have quite a good presence of kids and families. Especially so at York, which I go to as it’s the nearest ground to me these days and which always seems to have plenty of kids there. But also when I’ve been to Riverside.
 
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