Brighton Sky Blue
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A simple misunderstanding, it's just one set of brave men playing cricket against another set of brave men.
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Can’t stand the Hundred.
shepardo01
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Did you go??
Thinking of taking the boys up on Weds.
Does it cost to get in and were all of the chairs taken?!
Also, can you wander in and out?
chiefdave
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£15 for adults, I think kids are free, or if not free very cheap.
There was a decent amount of seating but not tons, some people were a bit towels on sunbeds but most people were OK and if they left for a while accepted their chair was now free. If you've got camping chairs or something like that you can bring them in.
I didn't leave so no idea on that score. You normally can at Edgbaston so I would guess you can. There's a few food and drink tucks they've bought in but obviously limited.
Was busy but not as busy as last year when every game was pretty much an instant sell out. Guess the novelty factor is gone. Wonder if they'll try and find somewhere else next year and move it around the county.
shepardo01
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Saw the set up as was around there at about 6:30.
Cheers for the info though. Very useful!
On my doorstep so will more than likely have a look on Wednesday!
Thank you.
Terry Gibson's perm
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It could be difficult to move it around a lot if the old grounds are dumps like Griff &Coton the outfield at C&NW is a disgrace it was hardly good enough for the under 12 game my lad played on it last week. At kenilworth wardens on Tuesday so will see what that’s like.
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The Blast needs revamping but not in an ecb way, it should be played in one block to get the best overseas, I think it was better at the start with less games. While they are there they can kill the hundred it’s still terrible and most people have no affiliation to any of the teams.
eastwoodsdustman
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Showing my age a little but I can remember Griff hosting county games in the 1990's. The wicket there would be an 'experience' for county teams now.
chiefdave
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Can remember games at C&NW but not Griff. My Dad would tell me about games being played at Courtaulds.
Sad that there's little chance we'll ever see a game in Cov again. Not sure there's even that much rec cricket around in the area these days. I used to play at Highway but that's disappeared and a lot of the places we used to travel to don't seem to be there anymore.
bulko
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I went to see Glamorgan and I think Somerset play Warwickshire when I was a young lad.
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There are probably less individual teams but teams have a lot more sides like Corley have four or five sides now. The Highway is a real waste. The price to play is a real problem in adult cricket, fortunately kids cricket is fairly cheap my lad pay a pound per game for Nuneaton.
tisza
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Always going to happen. Money talks. ECB just bumbling their way forward trying to survive financially. There will come a point where they have nothing left to sell.
ovduk78
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I saw some of Phoenix game yesterday before our game and at HT. Strange behaviour by the Curran boys not only with sledging they were giving to Livingston, I thought it was meant to be a bit more light hearted than an ashes series 
. Livingston & Bethell were having a laugh with Rashid but none of it with the Currans. I also saw Livingston signal a 6 when Phoenix were bowling when ball landed on sponge boundary, when Phoenix were batting the same thing happened & Tom Curran signalled a 4 and umpires decided he was right (he wasn't!)
. Livingston & Bethell were having a laugh with Rashid but none of it with the Currans. I also saw Livingston signal a 6 when Phoenix were bowling when ball landed on sponge boundary, when Phoenix were batting the same thing happened & Tom Curran signalled a 4 and umpires decided he was right (he wasn't!)
chiefdave
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So short sighted. They still seem to be clinging to the idea that these IPL franchises they have bought the teams and are rebranding will happily play this dumb format and not want to change it to a T20 competition.
Once that happens how long before the 'why have we got two T20 competitions' conversation starts.
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The Curran’s are a pair of arseholes who believe the hype that the capitals press give them , they are typical Surrey players they wouldn’t even be talked about as England players if they played for any other county.I saw some of Phoenix game yesterday before our game and at HT. Strange behaviour by the Curran boys not only with sledging they were giving to Livingston, I thought it was meant to be a bit more light hearted than an ashes series
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In real cricket Warwickshire have started nicely at Rugby school 84-0 after 12
chiefdave
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Wish I was there rather than stuck in the office!
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I’m watching on the stream at home but it looks lovely there and there should be a mountain of runs scored.
tisza
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It's like when rugby sold a chunk of their media rights - it sorted short-term cashflow etc but now that crucial revenue stream has gone. ECB have sold a big chunk of their future revenue.
IPL franchises are financially dominant in world cricket. If these owners don't get what they want they will just move their money to another country / tournament and bury the Hundred that way.
And then why does England need 18 20/20 teams when IPL does so well with just 10 teams.
chiefdave
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County members are already questioning why they should pay for marginalized competitions (Metro Bank) and reduced number of games (Blast), along with county games being pushed to months when you're not likely to want to sit outside all day.
The Hundred will be reformatted to T20, that seems an inevitability. Then expanded in terms of number of games, and possibly add in the two international grounds without teams (Durham and Bristol). Same model as the IPL basically, that started with 8 teams and 6 weeks, now 10 teams and just over 2 months. That would mean expanding to cover basically all of July and August.
County cricket, and possibly international cricket, would be fucked. You'd end up with county games being like the Metro Bank now, best players missing and playing at outgrounds.
Even international cricket is at risk. People keep saying it won't happen but look at the new owners of Manchester Originals. They own an SA20 team alongside their IPL team. They're bound to go for a BBL side when they are up for sale in the near future.
With a bit of a tweak to the calendar you could have December & January for BBL, February & March for SA20, April & May for IPL then July & August for the reformatted Hundred. Do you really think those franchise owners won't be offering year round contracts to the best players? National boards will be needing to get permission for players to take part in internationals.
There's even a nice gap so they can prioritise annual T20 tournaments. Depending where in the world you're having it you can go November in Aus / NZ or June in India or England.
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Edit: forgot the CPL, that's September covered, and there's also the thing in the UAE, move that to October / November and you've got franchises year round under the same ownership.
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chiefdave
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The good news is coming thick and fast.
Its obvious the big 3 just want to play each other and will just about tolerate throwing in occasional 3 test series against NZ, WI, SL and SA.
But as we march to year round T20 tournaments for both domestic and international cricket if you reduce the test calendar and have little to no opportunity for the next generation to play multi day cricket the inevitable will happen.
Thought I was old enough to be dead and gone before the game was totally destroyed but I'm starting to wonder.
Its obvious the big 3 just want to play each other and will just about tolerate throwing in occasional 3 test series against NZ, WI, SL and SA.
But as we march to year round T20 tournaments for both domestic and international cricket if you reduce the test calendar and have little to no opportunity for the next generation to play multi day cricket the inevitable will happen.
oscillatewildly
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Essentially cricket for people who don’t like cricket/have a low attention span.
Brighton Sky Blue
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That was supposed to be T20
oscillatewildly
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I dislike both short formats.
chiefdave
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Thought this weeks Sky Sports Cricket podcast was some sort of parody. They spent a good chunk of it discussing how the problem with the Hundred is that people don't care about the teams because they have no history. Alongside that people don't care about the players because they aren't players they've seen come through the ranks and develop, they're hired guns.
So what they're basically suggesting is that it would be far better if we had a competition which was made up of teams with decades of history and inter-generational support with a decent percentage of the players being those who have come up through the junior ranks of those sides. WE ALREADY HAVE THAT!!!
So what they're basically suggesting is that it would be far better if we had a competition which was made up of teams with decades of history and inter-generational support with a decent percentage of the players being those who have come up through the junior ranks of those sides. WE ALREADY HAVE THAT!!!
tisza
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But they double it with a women's game so the "day" is much longer.
chiefdave
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Exactly, crowds were growing year on year, streaming was proving to be a big success. Finals day was pretty much the biggest day of domestic cricket every year.
It was far from perfect and there was absolutely ways to improve things but its never had a fraction of the resources the Hundred has.
rob9872
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So much snobbery on here. I've watched Cricket for as long as I can remember. Let's not kid ourselves, I've sat at Edgbaston for a county game 25 years ago with barely a soul in the ground apart from the members and corporate areas, this isn't a new phenomenon. The short format its where it's at and that's what the public want.
There is room for both and we've just seen one of the best test series in recent years over here, gripping and exciting in lots of different ways. Anything that brings focus, coverage perhaps a new audience and more importantly much needed finances to the game is only good and if that's the shorter formats whether 100 or 20/20 then so be it. To suggest it's for people who don't enjoy other formats is ludicrous and outdated. It's exciting cricket and probably more akin with the games most of us grew up playing rather than watching.
There is room for both and we've just seen one of the best test series in recent years over here, gripping and exciting in lots of different ways. Anything that brings focus, coverage perhaps a new audience and more importantly much needed finances to the game is only good and if that's the shorter formats whether 100 or 20/20 then so be it. To suggest it's for people who don't enjoy other formats is ludicrous and outdated. It's exciting cricket and probably more akin with the games most of us grew up playing rather than watching.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I don't disagree that there is room for long and short format.
The issue is that the ECB seem to not be making room for everything else in this desperate bid to plug the 100. The Blast was a decent short format game and crowds were alright, especially finals day. That has been ruined in order to try and make the Hundred a success.
Potentially four domestic competitions to fit into a summer is quite a lot and we're the only ones in the world playing a Hundred style format.