******Cricket Thread******

[The Stockport Iniesta]

The Indian batter Kaur looked a quality player.

Not sure what the point of a new competition is, really, it's just T20 with fewer deliveries.

Aimed at kids apparently, the majority of games are in the school holidays.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Aimed at kids apparently, the majority of games are in the school holidays.

I'll watch it. It's 100 times better than the fayre I have to suffer. Emmerdale, Eastenders et al.

 

[chesterbells]

Fuck me, the moaning on here.
Well my family enjoyed watching the last hour of that, and they’d never normally watch the sport.
Better than Corrie anyway!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Lost that due to not being able to catch the softest of balls.

Christ, some were struggling to pick the ball up off the floor! Huge drop in quality in the fielding from the international games I've seen. Perhaps this tournament will see them work on that.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I'll watch it. It's 100 times better than the fayre I have to suffer. Emmerdale, Eastenders et al.

Absolutely.

 

[WNRH]

A half decent school team would thrash both of these. I’m all for promoting women’s sport but don’t even pretend it is elite and a similar standard.
City’s U16 boys football team would put 10 past the women’s elite first team without breaking sweat

By half time.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Absolutely.

I quite enjoyed it. I know it's not the highest of standards but so what. Think we'll see the car park battered a bit, when the men play.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Thought it was pretty good, looking forward to the mens game.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

The running between the wickets is bloody awful, in the women's game.

The amount of two's turned into one's was laughable.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don't like the 8-team concept, even if the effect of giving money to richer counties is disregarded. They'll mostly be viewed as county sides, so why not call them what they are (okay, it IS to disguise where the money goes).

The fielding timeout is a decent idea, the bowling change option after 5 balls seems okay, but it's got too much noise around it to be decent on TV. It doesn't seem different enough, as Swann mentioned at the end (they'll not thank him for that).

The recent fad for having the ropes miles in from the fence (as seen in every white ball match now) is there to pump the scores up.

The BBC coverage seemed to involve some C-lister in Vick Hope interviewing random people, and random chattering running over the actual play. They almost failed to comment on one great cover drive, and some of the dumbsplaining was particularly awful to listen to.