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Just wondering how much of the losses so far are due to the pandemic. I guess this season should tell us.
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supercity88
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Knew that would work
Pubteam Lomas
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It was popular to start with because of the pandemic.Just wondering how much of the losses so far are due to the pandemic. I guess this season should tell us.
People wanted to watch live sport regardless of its standard/origin.
It was also really cheap. But they need the counties behind it. Players are dropping out, Rashid Khan being the latest to withdraw.
FWIW I think it's good for the womens game and has shown the talent we have in our counties.
supercity88
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As you say the hundred is an abomination.
It's the very worst of franchise cricket, with players you expect to play for your local team, playing for some other "local" team, with no relevance to it's actual location, it's just a weird gimmick, hopefully will die a death soon enough. I've not watched any of it, and I won't, an awful degradation of real cricket, that even short versions of normal cricket haven't plumbed the depths of.
Worse still, the whole cricket season now revolves around it, to suit the school holidays.
In a single word "shite".
I'd much prefer another test match or three, but the idea behind it was to attract new audiences and to be fair, from the games I watched last summer you had loads of families and kids there watching. They got to see a women's game followed by the men which is another benefit of the competition. They've got jazzy names and jazzy kits and it's hoping to inspire the youngsters to play the sport, which is all positive in my opinion.
We'll be watching the proper cricket, the Hundred was never really designed for us.
jimharri
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And the crazy declaration in the first test.An Ashes series we should have won. Careless in the second test, plus rain at OT when we were favourite to win.
GX Blue
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I feel for Kate Cross. Manchester girl who had to sign for Northern Superchargers.
Like Foden signing for the Rags.
How come The Hundreds making a loss? It’s only been going 2 years and most games are completely sold out?
Like Foden signing for the Rags.
How come The Hundreds making a loss? It’s only been going 2 years and most games are completely sold out?
bavarian blue
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Probably giving away
Probably giving a lot of tickets away .I feel for Kate Cross. Manchester girl who had to sign for Northern Superchargers.
Like Foden signing for the Rags.
How come The Hundreds making a loss? It’s only been going 2 years and most games are completely sold out?
cleavers
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From watching Lancashire play on the exact same wicket 2 days later, I strongly suspect we'd have struggled to take the wickets anyway, it was such a flat wicket, good batsmen were very difficult to get out.An Ashes series we should have won. Careless in the second test, plus rain at OT when we were favourite to win.