The Cricket Thread

[LSUY]

ECB wants 100-ball format for its new competition which will consist of 15 six-ball overs and the final over with be a ten-ball over.

I hadn't realised there was a group of people who found 20 over cricket boring but were willing to watch 16 over cricket. This is turning into nothing more than a gimmick. If the ECB truly want more young people to watch cricket then perhaps give live coverage to the free-to-air channels rather than sticking all the county and international matches on Sky and BT?

 

[Spurslove]

ECB wants 100-ball format for its new competition which will consist of 15 six-ball overs and the final over with be a ten-ball over.

I hadn't realised there was a group of people who found 20 over cricket boring but were willing to watch 16 over cricket. This is turning into nothing more than a gimmick. If the ECB truly want more young people to watch cricket then perhaps give live coverage to the free-to-air channels rather than sticking all the county and international matches on Sky and BT?

For God's sake, why can't they just leave things as they are..!

I'm old school and I love my test cricket but recently, I've started to get interested in first class cricket too, especially the one day game, and I am a Surrey fan. Never been to watch cricket live because the TV coverage is so damned good, but I'll be attending the Kia Oval this season to watch the Royal London One Day matches.

Although 20/20 is obviously very popular with families and kids especially it's not something I have any interest in at all. I call it 'See it and bash it' cricket which does nothing for me. Cricket as it is, is a tried and tested game in the existing formats, so every time they try to bring in new ideas, or try to meddle with the basics of the game in order to attract a wider audience, I think it detracts greatly and diminishes any interest which might already be there.

Just my opinion.

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[sherbornespurs]

Even by ECB standards this is a totally bat-sh*t crazy idea. I've thought it for quite a while, but really the ECB is just not fit for purpose anymore - their time is up.

Of all the things they could be focusing on, like improving, growing and expanding school/grass roots cricket, the County game or the future of Test cricket this is what they choose to focus on.

I always go to two tests a year, always up to Edgbaston and one of either Lords or Trent Bridge - but really, who gives a shit anymore?
At least at 65 I'm old enough now that I'll probably die before Test and County cricket does, but I doubt there'll be much in it.

I'm appalled at how far these idiots want to drag the game into the mire. You only have to look at some of the faces playing in our Test team to see how low standards have been allowed to sink.

 

['O Zio]

If the ECB truly want more young people to watch cricket then perhaps give live coverage to the free-to-air channels rather than sticking all the county and international matches on Sky and BT?

The trouble is how many free-to-air channels are prepared to cancel clear their entire day's schedule to air it? Unless a huge amount of people tuned into it it's probably not worth it for someone like ITV or C4

 

[theShiznit]

I'm all for it, and then in the final ten ball over, you take off a fielder after every ball.

Until the final ball is just the bowler and wicket keeper (probably more entertaining that what they're proposing though)

 

[ljinko888]

The trouble is how many free-to-air channels are prepared to cancel clear their entire day's schedule to air it? Unless a huge amount of people tuned into it it's probably not worth it for someone like ITV or C4

BBC could put it behind the red button like other sports

 

[LSUY]

The trouble is how many free-to-air channels are prepared to cancel clear their entire day's schedule to air it? Unless a huge amount of people tuned into it it's probably not worth it for someone like ITV or C4

The last Ashes series on C4 peaked at 7.4m viewers and had an average of around 4m. Can't imagine Sky or BT have got anywhere close to that.

As ljinko has said, the BBC could stick it on the red button or on their website while ITV could put it on ITV4 like they did with the IPL.

 

['O Zio]

BBC could put it behind the red button like other sports

Hadn't thought of that.

The last Ashes series on C4 peaked at 7.4m viewers and had an average of around 4m. Can't imagine Sky or BT have got anywhere close to that.

Yeah I mean an Ashes series is one thing but they aren't going to get anything like that for county cricket etc. I wouldn't have though. Like you saythouhg, I suppose the red button would work

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

The last Ashes series on C4 peaked at 7.4m viewers and had an average of around 4m. Can't imagine Sky or BT have got anywhere close to that.

That was for the highlights package surely? Unless I'm missing something?

All I can remember is the Ashes being on Sky and the last disaster on BT Sport.

 

[LSUY]

That was for the highlights package surely? Unless I'm missing something?

All I can remember is the Ashes being on Sky and the last disaster on BT Sport.

The '05 Ashes was on C4.

 

[Spurslove]

The '05 Ashes was on C4.

To be honest, I didn't remember that.

I always associate cricket on C4 with an ad at the end of every over, which always does my head in and completely destroys any sense of continuity.

 

[LSUY]

Kevin Hand over at the Telegraph is saying the ECB is considering letting the final 10 ball over be shared between 3 bowlers.

100 ball cricket with a 10 ball final over bowled by 3 bowlers. Someone has told the ECB April Fools can't be dragged out across the whole month, right?

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Kevin Hand over at the Telegraph is saying the ECB is considering letting the final 10 ball over be shared between 3 bowlers.

100 ball cricket with a 10 ball final over bowled by 3 bowlers. Someone has told the ECB April Fools can't be dragged out across the whole month, right?

If you don't like test, one day or 20-20 then you just don't like cricket and another format isn't going to change that.

Or love it...before someone chirps up!

 

[LSUY]

If you don't like test, one day or 20-20 then you just don't like cricket and another format isn't going to change that.

Or love it...before someone chirps up!

The ECB has already said this new format isn't intended for cricket fans but aimed "at mums and kids during the summer holidays" which is why they "want to make the game as simple as possible for them to understand."

 

[leonspurs]

The ECB has already said this new format isn't intended for cricket fans but aimed "at mums and kids during the summer holidays" which is why they "want to make the game as simple as possible for them to understand."

Lol, that's almost to a West Ham level of stupidity in a statement.

 

[UncleBuck]

Lol, that's almost to a West Ham level of stupidity in a statement.

Or appointing Ed Smith...

 

[Spurslove]

Kevin Hand over at the Telegraph is saying the ECB is considering letting the final 10 ball over be shared between 3 bowlers.

100 ball cricket with a 10 ball final over bowled by 3 bowlers. Someone has told the ECB April Fools can't be dragged out across the whole month, right?

I despair. I bet these twerps sit around all day long, bored out of their tiny minds, trying to think of more and more new ways to fuck the game up for as many people as they can. They don't even know that if you divide a 10 ball over between three men, each man gets 3.33 balls. What next? A fourth stump? wider bats?

Really, I can't be spending any more of my time on these idiots.

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[LSUY]

Mark Stoneman: 4, 24, 0, 29
James Vince: 75, 12, 6, 33, 47
Dawid Malan: 5
Gary Ballance: 0, 82, 11, 19
Tom Westley: 17, 49, 0
Keaton Jennings: 2, 24, 15
Haseeb Hameed: 3, 19, 8, 1, 4
Ben Duckett: 6, 9, 0, 12

Good to see some in-form English batsmen for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.

 

[Spurslove]

Mark Stoneman: 4, 24, 0, 29
James Vince: 75, 12, 6, 33, 47
Dawid Malan: 5
Gary Ballance: 0, 82, 11, 19
Tom Westley: 17, 49, 0
Keaton Jennings: 2, 24, 15
Haseeb Hameed: 3, 19, 8, 1, 4
Ben Duckett: 6, 9, 0, 12

Good to see some in-form English batsmen for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.

Five of those have virtually no chance of being selected, thank God, and one of the three who probably will, should never get into an English test side again (Vince).

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Mark Stoneman: 4, 24, 0, 29
James Vince: 75, 12, 6, 33, 47
Dawid Malan: 5
Gary Ballance: 0, 82, 11, 19
Tom Westley: 17, 49, 0
Keaton Jennings: 2, 24, 15
Haseeb Hameed: 3, 19, 8, 1, 4
Ben Duckett: 6, 9, 0, 12

Good to see some in-form English batsmen for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.

Problem is they are trying to make people into what they want too quickly. Duckett, Jennings will never be test openers and Vince would be better at number 5 when the ball is a bit softer.

We've tried so many openers without realising that an Alistair Cook only comes around once in a generation, now he's on the wane we really are fucked.

Fucking Hales the ****, still pisses me off this white ball only decision. He could have ended up being our David Warner equivalent (sorry @Archibald&Crooks...)