its not patronising at all - its supply and demand the cheapest ticket for women's euro final at Wembley is £12.50 where as England italy cheapest fv for a non member was £276.00 quite a difference.
A full refund for everyone who attended Lord's yesterday despite the fact that the women's match was completed!
Apparently, when Sunday’s men’s match was rained off without a ball being bowled, it triggered the clause for a full repayment to fans. However, had Sunday’s thunderstorms arrived four hours earlier, wiping out the women’s fixture but allowing the men’s match to go ahead, there would have been no refund.
Work that one out! I suspect someone in the ECB might be looking for a new job shortly!
That chump at the ECB ought to be looking for a new job this morning but ECB is the premier league of chumps who would genuinely struggle to get pissed in a brewery, unless and until the brewery owner showed up and paid them to drink This is the same ECB that is too complacent to clean up players' twatter histories when handing out central contracts and selecting the national side, with inevitable humiliation to follow The same ECB that went all out for England to win the world 50 over competition and the following season throws millions of pounds of a crisp manufacturer's money at a new competition which is scheduled at the exact time as the domestic 50 over competition, ensuring that half the counties are playing B teams, at best, denying our better 50 overs ("list A" if you will) players any practice or development in the run up to the next World 50 over contest. fuckwittery 101
The hundred holds no interest for me at all - made up teams, playing at only the elite grounds, no local interest or affiliation possible, unless you live within earshot of one of the chosen venues and take the kids along for free to find out what all the noise is about
Never let it be said that the ECB do not have the healthy interests of the boys and girls that watch his competition. Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's, Butterkist, KP Nuts, Popchips, Pom-Bear and Tyrrells may not be on the kids replica shirts but they are there for all to see, be it live or on TV, on the men's and women's tops!
Never let it be said that the ECB do not have the healthy interests of the boys and girls that watch his competition. Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's, Butterkist, KP Nuts, Popchips, Pom-Bear and Tyrrells may not be on the kids replica shirts but they are there for all to see, be it live or on TV, on the men's and women's tops!
At least give the ECB some credit - it must have taken an enormous amount of co-ordination to get all of those different snack manufacturers to agree sponsorship at the same time.
Never let it be said that the ECB do not have the healthy interests of the boys and girls that watch his competition. Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's, Butterkist, KP Nuts, Popchips, Pom-Bear and Tyrrells may not be on the kids replica shirts but they are there for all to see, be it live or on TV, on the men's and women's tops!
At least give the ECB some credit - it must have taken an enormous amount of co-ordination to get all of those different snack manufacturers to agree sponsorship at the same time.
KP Snacks have paid £4m for the privilege of doing so. Now they wouldn't be doing so if they didn't think that it would make them a lot more then that.
Awful used cricket wickets. Today, one team was all out for 87 in 84 balls and the other took 73 balls to reach their lowly target. Was this really more entertaining than Worcs winning in the last over chasing Kent's 322?
If Test cricket is all about occupying the crease then the shortest form of the game should be about seeing batsmen hitting the ball out of the ground - if only for the sake of the young audience they are seeking to entertain and engage. Teams will just pack their sides with spinners and medium pacers bowling cutters if this carries on like this.
Oh look. The Nottingham Whatevertheyarecalled are playing not one, not two, not three, not four but five spinners!
Never let it be said that the ECB do not have the healthy interests of the boys and girls that watch his competition. Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's, Butterkist, KP Nuts, Popchips, Pom-Bear and Tyrrells may not be on the kids replica shirts but they are there for all to see, be it live or on TV, on the men's and women's tops!
At least give the ECB some credit - it must have taken an enormous amount of co-ordination to get all of those different snack manufacturers to agree sponsorship at the same time.
KP Snacks have paid £4m for the privilege of doing so. Now they wouldn't be doing so if they didn't think that it would make them a lot more then that.
They'll definitely be able to track brand awareness, and an improvement in that metric should convert to increased sales, but there's no guarantee that the investment will be covered. Not all sponsorship campaigns work.
David Willey, opening the bowling for the Super Chargers against Trent Rockets' d'Arcy Short has given the broadcasters the opportunity to caption the action, in their typical, capital letter, fluorescent green and pink style, with the words SHORT WILLEY.
For those who are wondering if the Hundred will survive, it’s part of the ECB TV deal with Sky and BBC, worth about £40m a year, £24m of that to the county’s
For those who are wondering if the Hundred will survive, it’s part of the ECB TV deal with Sky and BBC, worth about £40m a year, £24m of that to the county’s
For those who are wondering if the Hundred will survive, it’s part of the ECB TV deal with Sky and BBC, worth about £40m a year, £24m of that to the county’s
No one doubts it will survive but will its "success" be worth the damage it is doing?
It is, and will be, a massive success for the women's game.
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The Blast needs sorting, the group stages drag on, and that could be shorter, you could lose a knock out round as well and just get to finals day.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The Blast needs sorting, the group stages drag on, and that could be shorter, you could lose a knock out round as well and just get to finals day.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
Exactly move it to August, put it on free to air TV and wow the crowds would turn up!
It's not the Hundred that's a success, it's the marketing campaign and free to air TV.
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The Blast needs sorting, the group stages drag on, and that could be shorter, you could lose a knock out round as well and just get to finals day.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
Exactly move it to August, put it on free to air TV and wow the crowds would turn up!
It's not the Hundred that's a success, it's the marketing campaign and free to air TV.
They won’t because the Counties don’t want to move it or change it, and free to air TV won’t pay anywhere near enough to make it worth there while, honestly there isn’t the TV audience to give a monkeys for Somerset v Gloucestershire
They get the best of both worlds now, loads of Hundred money, still get to play average Blast games to a couple of thousand, and make money from that.
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The Blast needs sorting, the group stages drag on, and that could be shorter, you could lose a knock out round as well and just get to finals day.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
Exactly move it to August, put it on free to air TV and wow the crowds would turn up!
It's not the Hundred that's a success, it's the marketing campaign and free to air TV.
They won’t because the Counties don’t want to move it or change it, and free to air TV won’t pay anywhere near enough to make it worth there while, honestly there isn’t the TV audience to give a monkeys for Somerset v Gloucestershire
They get the best of both worlds now, loads of Hundred money, still get to play average Blast games to a couple of thousand, and make money from that.
So people are watching it because its London something or others v trent what is its? Not Surrey v Notts?
Average blast games in front of a couple of thousand? Not for meaningful games. There are far too many meaning less games, as you correctly pointed out. A meaningful blast game at Trent Bridge v Yorkshire would have sold out today, or close to it. Most of the blast was played during an England white ball series that doesn't help.
As a direct result of the hundred there is no meaningful men's 50 over cricket, you know the one we are world champions in. There is no professional women's t20 cricket. There is no women's professional cricket at all, at any format played internationally.
Once the test series starts I do wonder how much press attention the hundred will get, obviously more than county cricket would have got, not because its better, or more deserving, because its to expensive to fail.
It certainly isn't the "best of both worlds". That's before you even factor in the devaluation of what's left of the county game because "these aren't the teams on the tele".
The England Test captain was out first ball, the number one T20 batsman in the world was also out for a duck, the World Cup Final MOM made 5 and the persona non grata of the England national team looked, for the most part, like he didn't know one end of a bat from the other - and only survived to win the game for his team due to the outrageous benevolence of his former late night drinking partner.
The pitches utilised for the Hundred are disgraceful and would get reported at club level and the superstars of the game are being nullified by having to bat on them. Apart from the quality of the batting, the game was no different to umpteen close finishes that we have witnessed time after time in T20 matches.
Which begs the question - why the Hundred? What makes it different in a better way than T20 and could those better aspects have not been incorporated into the T20? Of course, they could have been. But then the ECB would not have had the one thing they sought to gain - control.
This is really good interview with Stuart Robertson the man behind the start of T20. Lots of the same complaints about the Hundred were aired when T20 came along,
I was thinking that maybe the best way would have been to have a 2 phase Blast. Group matches played amongst the 18 counties, with the best 8 qualifying for the "Big Blast" competition - a tight 2 or 3 week format - which can have coverage shared with the BBC and all the ECB hype. And maybe the chance for the 8 successful counties to "bid for" 2 players from the remaining counties or a list of overseas stars who agree to come over for the 3 weeks, but won't know which teams they'll play for.
That way you still have an elite 8 team competition, but it's democratic, and if Leics and Sussex qualify, while Yorkshire and Notts don't, well so be it.
This is really good interview with Stuart Robertson the man behind the start of T20. Lots of the same complaints about the Hundred were aired when T20 came along,
"What we don't want to do with the Hundred is to sacrifice the Blast. There's still more to go in the Blast; we can do more with it. So, we don't want to just throw it out as a result of a new competition coming in and working at a different level."
Then why not miss out the middle man and just improve the Blast? No mention of the County Championship having to be played around the Hundred or the Royal London either being down graded to the level of a third rate competition by virtue of all those absent players.
The amount of young eyes on these matches is a huge benefit to the growth of the game in the long term and probably outweighs the negatives in the county game (sorry don’t hate me).
I sincerely hope it’s a gateway to getting T20 finals day onto the BBC/ITV/C4 and this Hundred competition can be phased out over time.
The Blast needs sorting, the group stages drag on, and that could be shorter, you could lose a knock out round as well and just get to finals day.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
Exactly move it to August, put it on free to air TV and wow the crowds would turn up!
It's not the Hundred that's a success, it's the marketing campaign and free to air TV.
They won’t because the Counties don’t want to move it or change it, and free to air TV won’t pay anywhere near enough to make it worth there while, honestly there isn’t the TV audience to give a monkeys for Somerset v Gloucestershire
They get the best of both worlds now, loads of Hundred money, still get to play average Blast games to a couple of thousand, and make money from that.
So people are watching it because its London something or others v trent what is its? Not Surrey v Notts?
Average blast games in front of a couple of thousand? Not for meaningful games. There are far too many meaning less games, as you correctly pointed out. A meaningful blast game at Trent Bridge v Yorkshire would have sold out today, or close to it. Most of the blast was played during an England white ball series that doesn't help.
As a direct result of the hundred there is no meaningful men's 50 over cricket, you know the one we are world champions in. There is no professional women's t20 cricket. There is no women's professional cricket at all, at any format played internationally.
Once the test series starts I do wonder how much press attention the hundred will get, obviously more than county cricket would have got, not because its better, or more deserving, because its to expensive to fail.
It certainly isn't the "best of both worlds". That's before you even factor in the devaluation of what's left of the county game because "these aren't the teams on the tele".
Not ideal that the best England 50 over players are playing in the Hundred rather than honing their skills in the 50 over format
This is really good interview with Stuart Robertson the man behind the start of T20. Lots of the same complaints about the Hundred were aired when T20 came along,
The difference was that when T20 first came about their was nothing else like it. So why did the ECB need a format very similar to the T20? As said earlier - control.
I was thinking that maybe the best way would have been to have a 2 phase Blast. Group matches played amongst the 18 counties, with the best 8 qualifying for the "Big Blast" competition - a tight 2 or 3 week format - which can have coverage shared with the BBC and all the ECB hype. And maybe the chance for the 8 successful counties to "bid for" 2 players from the remaining counties or a list of overseas stars who agree to come over for the 3 weeks, but won't know which teams they'll play for.
That way you still have an elite 8 team competition, but it's democratic, and if Leics and Sussex qualify, while Yorkshire and Notts don't, well so be it.
I like this format suggestion too.
No reason why we couldn’t have had an eight team league for 2021 of Kent, Somerset, Sussex, Hampshire, Notts, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Birmingham.
Each of the eight teams get to “loan” a full England international for a few weeks and also have a separate pool of 20 odd international stars - each team gets two more players from that pool.
Each year the loans and the pool is reset so the ECB can put together a “draft day” where first picks go to the teams with the best group stage record (to reward better performance).
Think that would make for a very fun league while still incorporating the flashier elements of IPL/Big Bash/Hundred style franchise cricket.
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This is the same ECB that is too complacent to clean up players' twatter histories when handing out central contracts and selecting the national side, with inevitable humiliation to follow
The same ECB that went all out for England to win the world 50 over competition and the following season throws millions of pounds of a crisp manufacturer's money at a new competition which is scheduled at the exact time as the domestic 50 over competition, ensuring that half the counties are playing B teams, at best, denying our better 50 overs ("list A" if you will) players any practice or development in the run up to the next World 50 over contest.
fuckwittery 101
The hundred holds no interest for me at all - made up teams, playing at only the elite grounds, no local interest or affiliation possible, unless you live within earshot of one of the chosen venues and take the kids along for free to find out what all the noise is about
It is, and will be, a massive success for the women's game.
the Hundred will make too much money for it to go away any time soon
It's not the Hundred that's a success, it's the marketing campaign and free to air TV.
The cricket or the skills on offer are not up for debate. The format is.
that.
Average blast games in front of a couple of thousand? Not for meaningful games. There are far too many meaning less games, as you correctly pointed out. A meaningful blast game at Trent Bridge v Yorkshire would have sold out today, or close to it. Most of the blast was played during an England white ball series that doesn't help.
As a direct result of the hundred there is no meaningful men's 50 over cricket, you know the one we are world champions in. There is no professional women's t20 cricket. There is no women's professional cricket at all, at any format played internationally.
Once the test series starts I do wonder how much press attention the hundred will get, obviously more than county cricket would have got, not because its better, or more deserving, because its to expensive to fail.
It certainly isn't the "best of both worlds". That's before you even factor in the devaluation of what's left of the county game because "these aren't the teams on the tele".
The pitches utilised for the Hundred are disgraceful and would get reported at club level and the superstars of the game are being nullified by having to bat on them. Apart from the quality of the batting, the game was no different to umpteen close finishes that we have witnessed time after time in T20 matches.
Which begs the question - why the Hundred? What makes it different in a better way than T20 and could those better aspects have not been incorporated into the T20? Of course, they could have been. But then the ECB would not have had the one thing they sought to gain - control.
https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/117467/reminiscing-about-a-revolution-t20-cricket-stuart-robertson-cricbuzzcom
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/royal-london-one-day-cup-2021-1250123/lancashire-vs-sussex-group-2-1250164/match-report
Was lucky enough to catch this sublime game of cricket last week - long live proper cricket, I am just hoping that this gimmickry doesn't kill it.
That way you still have an elite 8 team competition, but it's democratic, and if Leics and Sussex qualify, while Yorkshire and Notts don't, well so be it.
Then why not miss out the middle man and just improve the Blast? No mention of the County Championship having to be played around the Hundred or the Royal London either being down graded to the level of a third rate competition by virtue of all those absent players.
Each of the eight teams get to “loan” a full England international for a few weeks and also have a separate pool of 20 odd international stars - each team gets two more players from that pool.
Think that would make for a very fun league while still incorporating the flashier elements of IPL/Big Bash/Hundred style franchise cricket.