Cricket Thread

Watched the game yesterday in the hundred - anything leg side was called a wide. Today loads of legside bowling… nothing called wide. Stuart Attwell umpiring I think
 
I'll be the first to admit I've got tickets for a couple of the games.

Next week at Trent Bridge as I've never visited that ground. £22 for a seat there.

Then I've got tickets for the Oval 'semi final' on the Saturday before the final. They were £40 each which I didn't think was too bad for what should be a good battle between two good teams in form.

I wanted to go the Oval to watch England play New Zealand in an ODI but the tickets were over a £100 for what is essentially a warm up game for the World Cup. So with that in mind when you can go to a Hundred fixture for a fifth of the cost of an England ODI game I understand the appeal.

Biggest issue for me with the Hundred is that I don't care about any of the teams. Northamptonshire is my local team and the nearest team is either Birmingham who I consider one of their biggest rivals or one of the London teams who I couldn't give a toss about as Northamptonshire rarely play the toffs down south in the short format games.
 
domalino said:
Don’t know if it’s because we’re 3 years in now, or because the ashes has made me really want cricket to grow and be back on free to air tv, but I’m starting to get behind the hundred a bit now.
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I must say I've watched more of it since it first started than I expected to. I think there's a bit of snobbery regarding the Hundred - like many on here, I prefer test cricket over everything else but I don't think us test cricket aficionados are the target audience here. Let's face it - most youngsters aren't going to get into cricket watching a whole day of a test match and the kids are clearly one of the main groups of people that the Hundred is aimed at.

My bigger issue with the Hundred isn't the format - it's that it is yet another tournament that has been crammed into an already busy schedule. So much so that they even altered the Ashes schedule to ensure the series was completed by the end of July.
 
Down the Oval today for the 50 over game . I would say there about 5000 in attendance, Surrey got a decent team out.
 
A right fuck up at Scarborough - weather okay but no play yet due water getting under the covers overnight.

Watching the Youtube channel there`s 8 groundsman just stood staring at the pitch or their phones
 
cleavers said:
Weather today might be OK, but it's rained for nearly 3 days there, and the last game was abandoned without a ball being bowled, so might not get much play.
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As Zanvoort said, it is the wicket that got wet, there is no drying activity on the outfield and it has been dry since the early hours.

The covers should have stopped that. I have the seem water from the covers was spilt back on the wicket when removing them, then petrol lit on the wicket to dry it out in the windies.
 
Meant to be a 1.15pm inspection but they have just rolled the covers on 5 mins before?

Abandoned now, both games so far in this comp both in Yorkshire and both NR.
 
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Was in Sedbergh Monday & Tuesday, had ticket for Scarborough but decided to come home yesterday, got a full refund on my ticket and missed nothing, feel sorry for all cricket fans who turned up only to have the game abandoned due to incompetent ground staff..
 
heslops barnet said:
Was in Sedbergh Monday & Tuesday, had ticket for Scarborough but decided to come home yesterday, got a full refund on my ticket and missed nothing, feel sorry for all cricket fans who turned up only to have the game abandoned due to incompetent ground staff..
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Lancashire will end up with very few points if this keeps happening to them.
 
heslops barnet said:
Unfortunately cricket is weather dependent, Lancashire always suffer……
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Playing home games in a sparse Yorkshire Dales village on a ground with poor drainage doesn't help.

Bought this to cheer myself up:
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The Hundred.

Who was the pillock who thought it would be good to put the runs scored halfway up the left side of the screen and the wickets lost in the bottom right corner. The screen graphics look worse every time I see them.
 
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