The Cricket Thread

[Sniffer]

Day four tickets will be returned.

115-5

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

282 all out

 

[Tony Towner]

Just brainless from Duckett. There's a nightwatchman at the other end and you play that shot?

 

[Tony Towner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1816904359172800739

 

[Stan Hullis]

Shocking start in the cricket this morning being 55-5 but Root and Stokes have dragged us back into it with a 100 run partnership before lunch.

 

[Tony Towner]

Seen a little bit, just flicking, of The Hundred on the last couple of days.Without going through the usual moans, now there's very little quality International players wise surely you need to keep the players who play at the TM grounds at the teams that play there? I've seen Sam Hain play for the Notts team, Liam Dawson and Olly Stone play for the Lords team, just a kick In their own bollocks.

Then you have Nasser Hussain relegated to commentate on this shit, rather than the Test, whilst Mel Jones does that. I don't dislike her, but come on...

 

[ROVERT47]

Pretty decent crowds enjoying the ‘shit’, must be like me, philistines, good finish to tonight’s game.

 

[Sniffer]

Pretty decent crowds enjoying the ‘shit’, must be like me, philistines, good finish to tonight’s game.

Due to the marketing. The sides aren’t much better than T20 blast teams.

 

[ROVERT47]

Anyway as a minority of one, I enjoy it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Anyway as a minority of one, I enjoy it.

Never been the argument, never been the point, you just fail to understand what the point is

 

[ROVERT47]

Well obviously, so what is the point?, I don’t get it, the end of cricket as we know it?

 

[Tony Towner]

1) No County Championship games during the best weather month of the year, makes it impossible for batsmen and spin bowlers to hone their technique on good pitches, in good weather

2) The domestic 50 over game has become a 2nd 11 competition, had a limited impact on our pathetic performance in the last World Cup, but it'll get worse

3) The domestic T20 tournament that was successful has been diminished by pushing it to the margins, yet the quality of the players involved isn't any different to The Hundred

4) It's a format nobody else plays, that they are talking about getting rid of

5) The crowds of both The Hundred and T20 are diminishing, the former because the product hasn't caught on, the latter because it's not promoted how it was

6) The bloke who has promoted it more than anyone else to the detriment of domestic cricket is trying to sell it to his own company.

All that is without criticising the product or the televising of it, the graphics of which appears to be for primary school children

 

[ROVERT47]

 

[Sniffer]

Well obviously, so what is the point?, I don’t get it, the end of cricket as we know it?

No. There’s plenty of love for T20 cricket on here.The hundred isn’t too dissimilar to it however……

1) The hundred is the brainchild of Colin Graves and some idiotic people who saw fit to piss about with a successful format, changed overs from 6 to 5 balls, changed a total of 120 balls in an innings to 100.
2) Pissed off a mighty section of fans of cricket by abandoning the county team structure to a format based around major cities/test grounds.
3) introduced a draft system so that players can appear anywhere each season.
4) Sold it to the public that the world’s best would flock to play in the competition. It’s not happening and never will. England players aren’t even in for a portion of the competition.
5) Left cricket in the ridiculous situation of having a huge proportion of the summer not playing the county championship and and players not playing 50 over competitions. The World Cup is a 50 over competition.

 

[Sniffer]

I mean look at tonight’s line ups. There’s a has been Mooen Ali, Southee’s over the hill and Livingstone blows hot but mainly cold. They’re all players who appear in the t20 blast. Nothing to excite anyone away from that competition.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's absolutely no snobbery on here about T20 - we've all been watching it for over 20 years.

We object to an arbitrary pointless tournament that is actively harming the game.

 

[ROVERT47]

Fair enough everyone and just for the record I’ve also been watching T20 for years and enjoy that too.
Unfortunately this year it clashed wit the Euro’s.

 

[Sniffer]

Fine catch by a man in a Wolves hat in the crowd at Edgbaston.

 

[Sniffer]

Followed by Crawley catching Louis off the bowling of Stokes. 125-4

 

[Lycan]

Fine catch by a man in a Wolves hat in the crowd at Edgbaston.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1817528738923303368