Grizzly
Well-known member
He looks like a find, no doubt about it.
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He looks like a find, no doubt about it.
RRidges
Active member
Some of us want to forget that last bit!
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Great start by England ?
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
red ball cricket destroying white ball cricket lol, whod have thought it eh
RichA
Well-known member
Not to worry. We'll smash it in the second innings.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
????
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Some finish to T20 finals day. The blast continues to deliver despite every hurdle thrown in its way
You can stick your franchise rubbish where the sun dont shine!
PS Nathan Ellis is some bowler (despite the penultimate ball!!!)
You can stick your franchise rubbish where the sun dont shine!
PS Nathan Ellis is some bowler (despite the penultimate ball!!!)
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Simon Doull take a bow "We had a Gorilla win the mascot race ... and now we've got the mist"
Grizzly
Well-known member
How good could it be if the ECB actually showed faith in the product?
Add Bairstow, Root, Willey, Rashid, Buttler and Livingstone in the mix...
Go one furter, scrap the 100 and finance the counties to get top overseas players...
3offTheTee
Tour Rookie
Far too logical but how true
RRidges
Active member
Actually, apart from the no-ball on the last delivery. it was pretty tame. Somerset should have knocked that meagre total off with overs to spare! It simply doesn't compare with IPL, which is ok, except that ECB seem to be promoting it as an alternative to IPL! Until England can produce wickets that encourage batsman to be aggressive, such comps will just be as tame as this was!
Grizzly
Well-known member
As you say, far too logical.
There is muttering in the chambers of power that attendances were down this year. Well,when (taking my county, Yorkshire, as an example) you schedule 6 or 7 home games within 15 days, what do you expect?
A four week window from early July. Subsidies for 3 Overseas per team and no England players rested, you have a competition that rivals any. Remember, the IPL excels at spectacle but the actual quality of cricket is pretty stinky on occasions.
Mudball
Assistant Pro
Great finish to Blast.. now waiting for undred ..
On another note.. thoughts on this? Should this be allowed or not? Was this picked up on live TV? I can understand this in the 100 but not so much in the spirit for longer format. You can argue this has always happened with the 12th man running on. Remember Cronje and his ear piece ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/c...t-secret-balcony-code-slammed-used-Lords.html
On another note.. thoughts on this? Should this be allowed or not? Was this picked up on live TV? I can understand this in the 100 but not so much in the spirit for longer format. You can argue this has always happened with the 12th man running on. Remember Cronje and his ear piece ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/c...t-secret-balcony-code-slammed-used-Lords.html
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
So at what point do the ECB wake up about the utterly ridiculous schedule?
Their star player (and test captain) has now retired from ODIs and is not playing this summers vanity project, having had some time out of the game last year too.
when they will realise its just not sustainable and theyre doing more harm
Their star player (and test captain) has now retired from ODIs and is not playing this summers vanity project, having had some time out of the game last year too.
when they will realise its just not sustainable and theyre doing more harm
Never, whilst there’s so much money in the white ball game.
Neilds
Assistant Pro
So Yorkshire and Lancashire both score over 200 in their semi and the wicket didn't encourage aggressive batting?!?!?!? Not sure what scores you were seeing in the IPL
GB72
Money List Winner
Getting just as bad in rugby now except the clubs still have to pay player wages and then the international money is a nice bonus on top and hence why all the calls are for players to play less club rugby by extending rest periods rather than perhaps not playing in every single international match or going on every tour (players are not going to turn down 20k per match with England). Sadly can see that going the same way, centrally contracted players and club rugby being only watched by a few devout fans in the same way as County Cricket.
Mudball
Assistant Pro
simple answer >> not really.
long answer >> You can look at it in a different way. While losing Stokes is a big loss, but it is also an opportunity. Opportunity for the others to make a mark and a living playing cricket. There is no need for Stokes to play every format, but there are others who need a spot to showecase their skills. We want the next generation of Livingstone, Salts, Parkinsons to come thru. White ball Cricket will get sub-fragmented - ODI/T20/100... each with its own specialists and audience. It may grown the game, but it will allow new players to emerge. Some of them will move up the chain.
The IPL is a great example of this. As Justin Langer once said, when you have a billion people and only 11 can play, they better be the best. With the IPL, it brought in players from non-descript counties and their performance forced them into the other formats. Bhumra, started off as a Mumbai Indian player and now is a Test player. He did not come thru the traditional route. Same with Pandya brothers. Suddenly instead of 11 players, IPL can provide opportunity to have 8-10 teams + support. It now supports a lot of new players who would never had made it to the national team.
Who knows we might unearth the next English Bhumra or Livingstone that can make the transition to red ball cricket.
Mudball
Assistant Pro
A lot has changed in cricket…. Then and now ..
RRidges
Active member
That's the sort of wicket that should have been used for the Final.So Yorkshire and Lancashire both score over 200 in their semi and the wicket didn't encourage aggressive batting?!?!?!? Not sure what scores you were seeing in the IPL
The other Semi wasn't quite as good, but scores were certainly better than in the final. Mind you, there were quite a few pretty rash strokes played too!
