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[Alan Harper's Tash]

There will be less 4 day cricket moving forward, I have no doubt about that whatsoever.

They can then fit in all the one day, t20 and hundred stuff they want.

As it stands, there will be no Ashes test matches in August next year to accommodate the hundred.

RIP cricket.

 

[waspish]

Don’t know this Hundred cricket am not warming to..

Also next year be the first time in 130 years that there be no test match in august in the ashes series so they can priorities this Hundred cricket!!

 

[M18CTID]

Don’t know this Hundred cricket am not warming to..

Also next year be the first time in 130 years that there be no test match in august in the ashes series so they can priorities this Hundred cricket!!

They obviously don't want a situation like this summer where players are leaving their Hundred teams to go and play test cricket, hence weakening the competition.

I'm not saying I agree with it but I think they're keen to make The Hundred a prestige competition so they can attract more of the world's best players like the IPL do. For me, and I have actually enjoyed some of the games, it's a tournament too far in an already crowded English summer but money talks and cricket is evolving so fast these days with more focus than ever on the shorter formats.

The Ashes is sacred IMO and should always take priority over other competitions, and it's going to be weird that next summer's series will be completed by the end of July. I remember the days when an English Ashes summer pretty much encompassed the whole cricket season and the Australians would spend about 4 months here. I've just been looking at the details of the 1993 series and the Aussies played their first warm-up game on April 30th 1993, with their last game being the 6th Test at The Oval which ended on 23rd August 1993. Along with the 3 ODIs, they also played a few one day games against county and minor county sides, nipped over the Irish Sea for a one-dayer against Ireland, and also played an astonishing 13 3 day matches against county sides which is only 4 shy of the full County Championship season back then! Incidentally, Lancs were the only county to beat them in a 3 day game that summer!

 

[waspish]

Yep that’s the problem to much cricket! I’d love us to play 6 test matches against he Aussies with around 10 20/20 games forget the 50 over games!

England test matches and England 20/20 games I always look forward to and Lancashire too..

 

[Protein Junkie]

England Lions have thrashed South Africa by an innings after posting 672 all out. Brook and Duckett big centuries.

 

[Gray]

Don’t know this Hundred cricket am not warming to..

Also next year be the first time in 130 years that there be no test match in august in the ashes series so they can priorities this Hundred cricket!!

Talking to players while they are playing adds nothing to the coverage. Bloody stupid idea and for me the format just doesn’t work.

 

[dickie davies]

Talking to players while they are playing adds nothing to the coverage. Bloody stupid idea and for me the format just doesn’t work.

I agree, the hundred is shit and talking to the players is cringe and pointless

 

[Gray]

The Manchester Originals should be renamed. Drop the Originals and add United, they are of a similar standard.

 

[jimharri]

Roy having the summer from hell. Another duck in the Hundred this evening.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Roy having the summer from hell. Another duck in the Hundred this evening.

Jason Roy Binary Boy