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The Hundred 2025


Wednesday 27th August

Women 3pm
Trent Rockets Women v Birmingham Phoenix Women
Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Men 6.30pm
Trent Rockets Men v Birmingham Phoenix Men
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
 
Fleagle said:
The fourth and fifth tests were on TV during the school holidays. Sadly, as far as live cricket goes, behind a paywall. But that’s an ECB decision that long predates the Hundred. The Hundred is in tv of course. The championship and one-day cup aren’t, except via you tube, but they never were except for the Gillette final in its glory days.

Totally agree. And it shows there is an appetite for something more traditional.

Apologies for that. Your hatred for the current shortest form then.

But short form of some kind will always be the gateway drug. I’m an old git who consumed most of his early professional cricket via the John Player League on BBC2 on a Sunday. Which also fiddled with the laws in multiple ways to condense the format and which the then old gits said was a monstrosity that would ruin proper cricket. I got hooked on test cricket even more remotely. The earliest series I can remember was followed on the radio. And for what it’s worth, didn’t actually involve six ball overs, a point so irrelevant to me at the time that I had to look it up just now to check. Which throws the six ball over obsession inherent in the rather childish persistence with referring to the 16.4 into some perspective I think.

Children can be won over by any format because they don’t carry the baggage. Just as I didn’t in 1970. And looking at the average age of my club’s first XI they bloody well need to be, and sharpish. What we were doing wasn’t working. And no amount of wishing that it was was going to make it so.
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So the county games and the 100 are all on YouTube live btw. So means that children today who don't watch main stream TV anymore have more access to the county game than test matches.

My lad 13 has watched every ball of his counties matches all season all for free and the 100 etc.

Even some days watching league cricket from around the country and all England under 19s level etc.

Has he seen 1 ball of test cricket or England noooo.

People don't need to watch live test cricket to have a massive interest in the game.

You know bit like supporting South Shields to an Manchester United in football.

Not everything revolves round the top level or test cricket in sport.
 
Saturday 30th August

The Eliminator

Women 2.15pm
Northern Superchargers Women v London Spirit Women
The Kia Oval, London

Men 6pm
Trent Rockets Men v Northern Superchargers Men
The Kia Oval, London
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A nonsense that they could have started today's play at 11am and got two games in instead of 2:15pm. I get playing games during the week means evening games will get a bigger crowd but it's a Saturday ffs.
 
Sunday 31st August

The Final

Women 2.15pm
Southern Brave Women v Northern Superchargers Women
Lord's Cricket Ground, London

Men 6pm
Oval Invincibles Men v Trent Rockets Men
Lord's Cricket Ground, London
 
All competitions should have reserve days when it gets to the knock out games, whether that be semi's or final rather than just going back to nrr or who finished higher in whatever group stage.
 
22,542 a record women's attendance for a hundred match
Incredible, the ball clips the stumps and flashes red but goes back into the groove so not out
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Northern Supercharges Women are Women's Hundred Winners 2025

Congratulations lasses
 
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Missed the cricket the last few days. What happened with the superchargers and how did that pan out for not getting to the final?
 
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