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The Hundred - Free tickets


smoker said:
You've said several times you couldn't care less about county cricket or Durham.
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I have said I prefer club cricket over county and not bothered about Durham.

I have not once said I don’t like county cricket
brandon said:
I disagree, the usual score on the bottom of the screen used by Sky, BBC, Star Sports or whoever is much more simplified and easy on the eye and that of course is the overriding importance.

One banner at the bottom with everything you need in order. Score first, overs next (the important bits), then your extra pieces, which aren’t ‘need to knows’ but if you’re a proper badger like me and want to know things like the batsmen’s scores, the bowling figures, run rate, delivery speed, target, runs required, etc then it’s all there.

What I saw tonight was a nonsense. Shite on the left, shite on the right, stuff on the bottom in different sizes and colours.

As I said, I’ve regularly scored matches and from time to time used different colours for different means, but it all had symmetry and meaning and was easy to read. What I saw tonight didn’t.


I’m not getting drawn into driving round a semantics roundabout with you. You don’t care for county cricket as much as you do club and international - you’ve admitted that much. So there’s no point wasting time arguing with you about county cricket.

Which has been evidenced by the next part of your post below. You’ve missed the point monumentally. Which comes as no surprise given your disinterest and ambivalence towards the counties.
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Your point is straightforward it the sense you saying for years county cricket does not get the coverage it deserves.

And I am fully that point and in full agreement.

And you now annoyed a competition you don’t like is suddenly getting prime time coverage.

Of course I can see that and understand what you saying.

However whichever way you look at it, cricket this week as been exposed to more people and that is very much a good thing!

Cricket been exposed to more people is something to celebrate not been annoyed at!
As I have said from the very beginning on these debates cricket at ground club level needs more take up and the more exposure cricket gets on prime time television the better.

Find it difficult to understand why anybody involved in cricket would not be very much pleased the coverage it has had this week?
 
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Voice of fair play said:
I have said I prefer club cricket over county and not bothered about Durham.

I have not once said I don’t like county cricket

Your point is straightforward it the sense you saying for years county cricket does not get the coverage it deserves.

And I am fully that point and in full agreement.

And you now annoyed a competition you don’t like is suddenly getting prime time coverage.

Of course I can see that and understand what you saying.

However whichever way you look at it, cricket this week as been exposed to more people and that is very much a good thing!

Cricket been exposed to more people is something to celebrate not been annoyed at!
As I have said from the very beginning on these debates cricket at ground club level needs more take up and the more exposure cricket gets on prime time television the better.

Find it difficult to understand why anybody involved in cricket would not be very much pleased the coverage it has had this week?
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Cricket was exposed to more people when England won the World Cup on terrestrial telly. This year the governing body have downgraded the domestic 50 over competition.

It started today, by the way, there were some great games and Durham achieved a new record high innings. Couple of English lads scored centuries.
 
wayne entwhistle no9 said:
Well watched the 2nd innings and nothing special although loads of the better English players involved.
Sadly for those who want it to fail that was a huge crowd and when you compare it to T20 blast matches at a lot of county grounds it was like an international.
Not really my cup of tea if I had the choice I would have preferred to have been at Beckenham watching Durham in a 50 over game. But sadly iam a dinasour and I doubt it would work at the Riverside.
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It was the oval and Surrey regularly get over 25,000 without having to give away 10,000 tickets.

I wonder how much of the 18,000 paid over a £5er

I'm sure the Rey will have more insight when back from what I assume is another ban.

I have no idea how people get banned so much. I got one 24 hour ban in 13 years on here. For absolutely nowt I might add.
 
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They need to sort the graphics out, I think that’s a given. Not just the layout but the colours - I think France ‘98 was when the BBC started putting the shirt colour alongside the country name.

I sort of understand them sticking with the same pink or green items thematically (one resembling bowling stats, one resembling batting/runs) but if they’re going for a younger crowd, it’s an overly complicated layout to understand which team has what.

Or to be more cynical, seeing as some of the traditional counties have been amalgamated, is it more about showing attacking batting for 200 balls, rather than building any form of support for a specific team?
 
brandon said:
Cricket was exposed to more people when England won the World Cup on terrestrial telly. This year the governing body have downgraded the domestic 50 over competition.

It started today, by the way, there were some great games and Durham achieved a new record high innings. Couple of English lads scored centuries.
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Yeah fair enough.

Surely whatever way we both look at it cricket been exposed more and the more coverage it gets in whatever format has to be a good thing surely?

I simply want to see cricket flourish in local communities and villages in this area and local cricket club to be a great place for families to go to in the summer.

Will never stray from that core principle and the more cricket is exposed in whatever format to the general public is what any cricket follower should want imo
 
mackembhoy said:
It was the oval and Surrey regularly get over 25,000 without having to give away 10,000 tickets.

I wonder how much of the 18,000 paid over a £5er

I'm sure the Rey will have more insight when back from what I assume is another ban.

I have no idea how people get banned so much. I got one 24 hour ban in 13 years on here. For absolutely nowt I might add.
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I don't know how many free ticket where given away but there was a huge crowd there and a big match atmosphere. Let's see where it goes. Hopefully it leads to major reform of the county game which the counties should have done themselves 15 years ago.
 
Voice of fair play said:
I have said I prefer club cricket over county and not bothered about Durham.

I have not once said I don’t like county cricket

Your point is straightforward it the sense you saying for years county cricket does not get the coverage it deserves.

And I am fully that point and in full agreement.

And you now annoyed a competition you don’t like is suddenly getting prime time coverage.

Of course I can see that and understand what you saying.

However whichever way you look at it, cricket this week as been exposed to more people and that is very much a good thing!

Cricket been exposed to more people is something to celebrate not been annoyed at!
As I have said from the very beginning on these debates cricket at ground club level needs more take up and the more exposure cricket gets on prime time television the better.

Find it difficult to understand why anybody involved in cricket would not be very much pleased the coverage it has had this week?
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I find it difficult to understand why people like yourself are so desperate to kill off Durham CCC, take cricket away from half the country and seriously harm the Test team. I find it difficult to understand why you think deliberately limiting the exposure of cricket, but pushing the 16.4 is a good idea. But there you go.

Thing is, I'm pretty sure you will get your way and you will kill the game forever. Such a shame.

There were less people in the Oval last night than Surrey's average Blast attendance in 2019 (the last undistributed season), and there's rain forecast in Manchester for Sunday, so maybe there's hope. :D
brandon said:
Mine already is 🤷‍♂️
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Mine too.
 
Julio_Schwarz said:
The graphics were fairly awful. All seems very forced and overhyped to death by media and pundits. Hopefully will be gone soon and ECB will instead invest in the County Game, RLC and the T20 blast. Not gonna hold my breath like.
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Oh aye they were bloody terrible. Almost put me off watching.
 
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