They were heading for a big score of 180+ not really now
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The Hundred 2025
- Thread starter Hetty
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Although at least London still exists. Middlesex hasn’t for 60 years.On my way to support Mumbai Indians London
What a joke
Friday 22nd August
Women 3pm
Birmingham Phoenix Women v Welsh Fire Women
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Men 6.30pm
Birmingham Phoenix Men v Welsh Fire Men
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Women 3pm
Birmingham Phoenix Women v Welsh Fire Women
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Men 6.30pm
Birmingham Phoenix Men v Welsh Fire Men
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Steak Pie
Striker
I can't imagine how furious you're all going to be. Selling it to you as something new and exciting, just to abandon it for the same (but less) than we already had.
Surely the 16.4 acolytes aren't just going to accept this? Fool me once, shame on me etc etc etc.
You have my sympathies.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Like I said a million times, it’s a designated window in peak time for a short format tournament like IPL, BB, SA20 that I always thought needed and wanted.
Whether it 100 balls or 120 balls has never been the main concern.
Although which more prefer 20 overs as it has proved a really successful format for many a year.
So would actually be pleased if changed to that as think should have been 20 overs in the first place.
As the poster who replied to you in the first place, why would anyone be annoyed with that.
Still a short format tournament in peak time, now 20 overs which always throughly enjoyed.
And English cricket 520 million richer
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But t20 is not successful for the last 5 years as it was. Falling crowds clubs profits not matching what they were 10 years ago in that format.
Why t20 needs changing and why the 100 concept was born.
I believe only 1 county have had no drop off and still get sell outs. Somerset.
Warwickshire for example have gone from 13000 average to 6000 average in last 5 years.
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Saturday 23rd August
Women 11am
Northern Superchargers Women v Oval Invincibles Women
Headingley, Leeds
Men 2.30pm
Northern Superchargers Men v Oval Invincibles Men
Headingley, Leeds
Women 2.30pm
London Spirit Women V Southern Brave Women
Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Men 6pm
London Spirit Men V Southern Brave Men
Lord's Cricket Ground, London
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Steak Pie
Striker
Yes, yes. We know that you're all in on taking all cricket (except the 16.4) away from the school holidays. You've been very clear about that.
But most people will be furious, and rightly so.
The ECB were very clear that the Blast couldn't be a stand alone competition with its own window. They gave us a cast iron guarantees that it wouldn't sell, and that there was no way a T20 competition would be shown on any terrestrial channel.
That's why the16.4 was invented. It's new and exciting and every match is brilliant and mega exciting, and all the players are super megastars.
Changing it to a T20 competition would just be admitting that everything about the 16.4 is bullshit and we've destroyed the domestic game and the test schedule for no reason.
Everyone who has been conned into helping the destruction of the sport, yourself excepted obviously, will be absolutely apoplectic.
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Voice of fair play
Striker
Not in the slightest!
We could now have a T20 tournament which more people will be able to relate too.
The added investment looks like it will bring a better quality of player which the tournament hasn’t delivered on up to this point.
hence making it a better quality tournament.
And English cricket is 520 million richer, sustaining the domestic cricket for a lot longer.
And hopefully we will have brilliant test series like we have just had against India each year.
It’s a win win all round.
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Steak Pie
Striker
Yes, I know you're fully on board with whatever is served up (even though you seem to be saying that the 16.4 is a rubbish format and that the quality is poor).
Anyway, doesn't matter. As long as all domestic first class and all international cricket is paused for the school holidays, you're in. Fair enough.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Never been on board with whatever is served up, as want us to have the second best T20 tournament in the world which it has not delivered up to this point.
And never have been really happy with changing a format that has taken off around the world last 15/20 years.
T20 leagues have happened everywhere so it’s completely obvious that people want to watch it or them leagues what not have been formed, so yes not keen on 100 balls as opposed to tried and tested T20 and yes disappointed the quality of players not better as promised.
However I understand in the modern era that cricket needs to evolve to get kids engaged in the game.
And going along to watch a drawn game which sadly the majority of championship games are in August on good wickets where they would be bored to death rather than watching a fast paced short format game is not the way kids will get attracted to the game.
Accepting the game has changed and having a top quality T20 tournament with the worlds best players was inevitable.
This particular obsession of yours is both factually wrong and wrongheaded anyway.
The last two tests were during the school holidays. I will lay you a pound to a penny, having been to two days of the last one, that there were hardly any kids at either of them. Not noticeably more than at the first three anyway, Understandable given the format and the price. There will also, by the time the competition you hate has finished, have been a county championship round and eight 50 over matches. The latter, in my experience, attracts plenty of kids (as does the Hundred of course). The former, not so much.
The two main school holiday formats, the one-day cup and the Hundred, are those that the kids go to in largest numbers. I’m a long form time cricket fan. It’s the purest form of the game, and the most subtly exciting when it works in my view. But you’ve let your hatred of the short form cloud your reason if you think it should be the focus of the school holidays.
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Sunday 24th August
Women 11am
Welsh Fire Women v Trent Rockets Women
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Men 2.30pm
Welsh Fire Men v Trent Rockets Men
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Women 2.30pm
Manchester Originals Women v Birmingham Phoenix Women
Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Men 6pm
Manchester Originals Men v Birmingham Phoenix Men
Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Women 11am
Welsh Fire Women v Trent Rockets Women
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Men 2.30pm
Welsh Fire Men v Trent Rockets Men
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Women 2.30pm
Manchester Originals Women v Birmingham Phoenix Women
Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Men 6pm
Manchester Originals Men v Birmingham Phoenix Men
Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Rather arrogant and condescending terminology. By all means produce,a counterargument but is it necessary to use such demeaning phraseology?. Youngsters have never been attracted to the longer form of the game but there's an unproven assumption that the school holiday is the optimum period to attract youngsters - most are in family holidays during part of this time and it also coincides with the counter attraction of the build up and beginning of the football season. Perfectly reasonable for the devotee of the purest form of the game to object to being deprived of test matches during the main holiday period for the working adult.
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Voice of fair play
Striker
You should mention that to @Steak Pie who has suggested several times that having kids sent on a bus to watch county championship games is the way to engage them in the game.
As the short format T20 or otherwise is just ‘Big Mac and fries’ apparently
I accept that other posters are fully entitled to views which don't concur with mine I wholly recognise posters objection to cricket being monopolised during high summer by a format designed to occupy the minds of youngsters hence the cynical terminology. I organised coach trips for children to attend Gillette cup games and later games v tourists. I can assure you they thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
My club organise small aside games for the youngsters to participate in rather than encouraging them to sit on their backsiides watching participants with adverts for unhealthy snack foods on their outfits.Each to his own,of course.
