Looks like they mean business this time. Purpose built stadium, good level of investment (including from the IPL), well paid players, and some sell out crowds.
Looks like some very strong lineups in terms of big name overseas talent too. Jason Roy I think is the sole England player that's gone over there (Liam Plunkett moved over there and doesn't count as an overseas it seems)
Will be interesting to see how this goes but it does feel like we're reaching saturation for these franchise T20 leagues.
Three week season; lots of "older" players (Guptill, Zampa, Du Plessis, Russell, Wade, etc). Teams owned by IPL owners (again). It will chug along for a few seasons, but I don't see how a San Francisco "team" can play games in Texas and North Carolina, and have any correlation to that city? (Same with most of the other teams...) Only Brits are Plunkett and Roy (although I think Stevo was linked at one point?), so no real interest, as with most franchise sport.
Three week season; lots of "older" players (Guptill, Zampa, Du Plessis, Russell, Wade, etc). Teams owned by IPL owners (again). It will chug along for a few seasons, but I don't see how a San Francisco "team" can play games in Texas and North Carolina, and have any correlation to that city? (Same with most of the other teams...) Only Brits are Plunkett and Roy (although I think Stevo was linked at one point?), so no real interest, as with most franchise sport.
reminds me of the ICL - just older players for the most part. IIRC plunkett qualifies for USA, so might be a good move for him - he seems to have got the foakes treatment before foakes.
Exciting that the game's going stateside, will probably get some interest from americans with south asian and maybe carribean background. Whether it gets a bigger audience remains to be seen.
Very interesting. One of my very good friends is an American cricket fan and he's moving back to LA this week. He's not a fan of the pyjama stuff though. I'll be very surprised if it takes off there with baseball being such a popular sport.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
Very interesting. One of my very good friends is an American cricket fan and he's moving back to LA this week. He's not a fan of the pyjama stuff though. I'll be very surprised if it takes off there with baseball being such a popular sport.
Possibly the yanks will see a similarity between baseball and cricket and the game may be reasonably popular?
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I completely agree. But I don't believe the Americans see sports or entertainment in the same way that we do. For us its about the quality on the pitch and the result. For them its as much about what happens around it, the food, the drink, the music, the entertainment, celeb appearances. They're quite happy if a tiny proportion of their time in the stadium is spent actually on the sport. We would never accept that even if it was in exchange for decent food & drink.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I obviously much prefer cricket, but have been to 3 baseball games when out in the US and enjoyed them all.
big Asian and West Indian background populations in the USA, allied to the novelty factor, this should do well .. no doubt in my opinion that 20/20 or similar formats, make for a generally entertaining spectacle .. expect lotsa razza mattaz
big Asian and West Indian background populations in the USA, allied to the novelty factor, this should do well .. no doubt in my opinion that 20/20 or similar formats, make for a generally entertaining spectacle .. expect lotsa razza mattaz
But with the games at two venues in the middle of nowhere, and very limited stadium capacity (7k max!), I doubt there will be many watching live. It's TV where the audience will mainly come from, but unless you idolise a player who's in one of these games, why watch on TV when you could take in other "better" live cricket from around the world?
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I obviously much prefer cricket, but have been to 3 baseball games when out in the US and enjoyed them all.
I've been to about 12 baseball games and have enjoyed most of them. I've seen plenty of T20 games that have been boring. One-sided T20 games are not usually very exciting; at least with baseball, a score can change dramatically.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I'll expand on this. Not just t20, but odi and test too.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I'll expand on this. Not just t20, but odi and test too.
I found baseball tiresome to watch.
I think test cricket would be several steps too far - not sure they could get their heads around playing for five days and not having a winner!
But I agree - all forms of cricket are better than rounders.
One of the more interesting recent cricket developments is extremely influential (and good) US baseball (and other sports) Youtuber Jomboy developing and sustaining an interest in cricket, which has become almost his second interest behind baseball (he's also into lacrosse for some reason). Cricket should seek entente with baseball, not competition.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
Me too, I've seen a game in USA and Japan but baseball is in grained into their culture. Bizarrely it's the most popular sport in Japan.
One of the more interesting recent cricket developments is extremely influential (and good) US baseball (and other sports) Youtuber Jomboy developing and sustaining an interest in cricket, which has become almost his second interest behind baseball (he's also into lacrosse for some reason). Cricket should seek entente with baseball, not competition.
Was interesting when they sent Harry Brook out to Spring Training with the St Louis Cardinals as a promo for the London game.
The salaries for players in Year 1 have already surpassed the best that are on offer in The Hundred- Roy is on a two year contract worth £300K.
The six teams include the following 42 players (players in bold are taking part in both the MLC and The Hundred):
Kieron Pollard Trent Boult Rashid Khan Kagiso Rabada Dewald Brevis David Wiese Jason Behrendorff Tim David Nicholas Pooran Andre Russell Sunil Narine Jason Roy Lockie Ferguson Adam Zampa Martin Guptill Rillee Rossouw Spencer Johnson Anrich Nortje Wanindu Hasaranga Adam Milne Marco Jansen Ben Dwarshuis Glenn Phillips Moises Henriques Josh Philippe Quinton de Koch Sikander Raza Wayne Parnell Devon Conway Mitchell Santner Daniel Sams David Miller Dwayne Bravo Ambati Rayudu Aaron Finch Chaitanya Bishnoi Lungi Ngidi Marcus Stoinis Corey Anderson Liam Plunkett Shadab Khan Haris Rauf
The Hundred confirmed overseas recruits for the eight sides are:
Nathan Ellis Haris Rauf Glenn Phillips Shaheen Afridi Wanindu Hasaranga Haris Rauf Ashton Turner Josh Little Michael Bracewell David Wiese Sunil Narine Wayne Parnell Henrich Klaassen Ihsanullah Khan Rashid Khan Daniel Sams Colin Munro Shadab Khan Adam Milne Tim David Devon Conway Finn Allen
I didn't realise the US is co-hosting next year's T20 World Cup ...
(From the Guardian)
Close to $50m already spent, with another $130m on the way. It has wealthy patrons: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leads a roll call of leading Indian-American tech executives who’ve signed up to throw cash at the new venture. It has the blessing of an International Cricket Council desperate to lift its sport’s profile in America ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States and the West Indies. It has powerful allies: four Indian Premier League franchises and two state cricket bodies from Australia have signed on as either full owners or operational partners for the fledgling league’s six founding teams. It has a slot in the international cricket calendar that’s relatively uncrowded, with only the men’s and women’s Ashes as real competition for the committed global cricket fan’s attention.
cricket, specifically t20 is a far more entertaining spectator sport than baseball, which is a real snooze fest - definitely the most boring sport i've ever seen live.
I'll expand on this. Not just t20, but odi and test too.
I found baseball tiresome to watch.
I think test cricket would be several steps too far - not sure they could get their heads around playing for five days and not having a winner!
But I agree - all forms of cricket are better than rounders.
Like others, I can’t see cricket taking off in the US except within one obvious target market. I assume this is being pitched at the large diaspora from the sub continent. They tend to be very poorly represented in US sports, in the same way they’re barely represented in football, so many retain strong cricketing allegiances to their motherlands. Starved of the sport in the US, I can see this demographic alone selling a lot of tickets. Once the novelty of watching some over the hill cricketers bash the ball around for twenty overs runs out, I just don’t see the US market being big enough to sustain a whole league in a country with such a huge land expanse. Sure there’s some money to be made in the short term however.
I tend to find the cricket v baseball arguments as puerile as the rugby v NFL arguments. The similarities between the sports are striking on a base level but paper thin in reality. So you end up with people totally uneducated in one or other of the sports, claiming that “their” sport is obviously far superior. It usually descends into an argument with all the intellectual rigour of a frat boys dick measuring contest.
Like others, I can’t see cricket taking off in the US except within one obvious target market. I assume this is being pitched at the large diaspora from the sub continent. They tend to be very poorly represented in US sports, in the same way they’re barely represented in football, so many retain strong cricketing allegiances to their motherlands. Starved of the sport in the US, I can see this demographic alone selling a lot of tickets. Once the novelty of watching some over the hill cricketers bash the ball around for twenty overs runs out, I just don’t see the US market being big enough to sustain a whole league in a country with such a huge land expanse. Sure there’s some money to be made in the short term however.
I tend to find the cricket v baseball arguments as puerile as the rugby v NFL arguments. The similarities between the sports are striking on a base level but paper thin in reality. So you end up with people totally uneducated in one or other of the sports, claiming that “their” sport is obviously far superior. It usually descends into an argument with all the intellectual rigour of a frat boys dick measuring contest.
As a bit of history, cricket lost its popularity as the summer game in the US because of the Civil War. Troops out in the field found it hard to find 22 yards of flat ground for a wicket but baseball could be played almost anywhere.
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Will be interesting to see how this goes but it does feel like we're reaching saturation for these franchise T20 leagues.
Exciting that the game's going stateside, will probably get some interest from americans with south asian and maybe carribean background. Whether it gets a bigger audience remains to be seen.
I found baseball tiresome to watch.
But I agree - all forms of cricket are better than rounders.
Was interesting when they sent Harry Brook out to Spring Training with the St Louis Cardinals as a promo for the London game.
Massive massive loss with both bat and ball.
The six teams include the following 42 players (players in bold are taking part in both the MLC and The Hundred):
Kieron Pollard
Trent Boult
Rashid Khan
Kagiso Rabada
Dewald Brevis
David Wiese
Jason Behrendorff
Tim David
Nicholas Pooran
Andre Russell
Sunil Narine
Jason Roy
Lockie Ferguson
Adam Zampa
Martin Guptill
Rillee Rossouw
Spencer Johnson
Anrich Nortje
Wanindu Hasaranga
Adam Milne
Marco Jansen
Ben Dwarshuis
Glenn Phillips
Moises Henriques
Josh Philippe
Quinton de Koch
Sikander Raza
Wayne Parnell
Devon Conway
Mitchell Santner
Daniel Sams
David Miller
Dwayne Bravo
Ambati Rayudu
Aaron Finch
Chaitanya Bishnoi
Lungi Ngidi
Marcus Stoinis
Corey Anderson
Liam Plunkett
Shadab Khan
Haris Rauf
The Hundred confirmed overseas recruits for the eight sides are:
Nathan Ellis
Haris Rauf
Glenn Phillips
Shaheen Afridi
Wanindu Hasaranga
Haris Rauf
Ashton Turner
Josh Little
Michael Bracewell
David Wiese
Sunil Narine
Wayne Parnell
Henrich Klaassen
Ihsanullah Khan
Rashid Khan
Daniel Sams
Colin Munro
Shadab Khan
Adam Milne
Tim David
Devon Conway
Finn Allen
(From the Guardian)
Close to $50m already spent, with another $130m on the way. It has wealthy patrons: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leads a roll call of leading Indian-American tech executives who’ve signed up to throw cash at the new venture. It has the blessing of an International Cricket Council desperate to lift its sport’s profile in America ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States and the West Indies. It has powerful allies: four Indian Premier League franchises and two state cricket bodies from Australia have signed on as either full owners or operational partners for the fledgling league’s six founding teams. It has a slot in the international cricket calendar that’s relatively uncrowded, with only the men’s and women’s Ashes as real competition for the committed global cricket fan’s attention.
39 y/o Dwayne Bravo hitting sixes around the ground in the last over, very entertaining.