Cricket Thread

[cleavers]

Strange there's no sixth test this summer. From what I can see the next cricket for England is a few T20s against NZ, but that's not for another month.

Today was the sixth, you're forgetting we played Ireland at Lords.

 

[cleavers]

That was a fun competition - Sunday's game.

It was, a fore runner of T20 from a long time ago, I also loved it as a kid.

 

[Gabriel]

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".

The ECB seem adamant that it will stay as they have a contract with Sky through to 2028, but then you read of the reported losses made and wonder how it can possibly survive. Not my cup of chai.

 

[cleavers]

The ECB seem adamant that it will stay as they have a contract with Sky through to 2028, but then you read of the reported losses made and wonder how it can possibly survive. Not my cup of chai.

The pertinent word in all that is "sky" sadly.

 

[Corky]

Not sure about that. England’s three Tests against Sri Lanka next summer are scheduled to start on August 21st.

The first few years they had England players in at the start but gone after 4 games an the likes of Villas replace them. In the first year it started in July about 2 weeks earlier.

Makes more sense to play tests when the hundred is on and avoid the white ball stuff. Or just show the new series of the Gladiators instead if they want a bit of novelty fun.

 

[melrose40yarder]

Which one?
England not only have to identify the bowlers that will form their spearhead for the next two Ashes series, but they also have to get them on contracts that protect them from being run into the ground.

Sorry Craig looked quite lively when he did play.

 

[Gray]

Which one?
England not only have to identify the bowlers that will form their spearhead for the next two Ashes series, but they also have to get them on contracts that protect them from being run into the ground.

Hope they are not pinning their hopes on an injury prone West Indian?

 

[Craig]

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".

Spot on

 

[waspish]

Jimmy Anderson is a great bowler, but every test he plays from now on is mudding the water and memories,
Even today when Woakes and Broad got it swinging Jimmy still looked all of the 41-year-old he is

England has to build for the future and the next Ashes, Jimmy can not be in the plans so why not step down on top, Even going to India in early 2023 what is the point ? give somebody their chance and let them grow into test cricket

Next test match game he be 6 months older! Think someone will have a word with him and tell him we probably wont be picking you anymore so we giving
You one more test match so you can announce it yourself!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

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 still watch some of it although I do convert everything back into 6-ball overs when doing the necessary mathematics. I think somewhere someone thought cricket needed a shorter game with less arithmetic skills required by the viewer but they forgot that the existing fans love all that. It’s an abomination of course but it’s still the same bowling, batting and fielding skills. Don’t care who wins though and couldn’t tell you who won last year or the year before either.