ECB Chief Executive Richard Gould discusses The Hundred and the future of Test cricket 

Exactly, it's extremely childish and cringe for proper cricket fans

Sorry but the hundred is the future

Teenagers are the future so theres a market for it thats worth investing in, you can still watch your county cricket

@@sampenno4368 but you are so....

Money will ruin cricket and allow people with no interest in the game to rule the roost. Greed.

Sooner the better. The BBC of course promotes this rather than the real game.

The Hundred is much more entertaining than Blast or whatever

great idea, should we call it T20 or something like that? maybe have a few franchiches out there such as in India. Then get every nation in a world cup? YES

the point was to have a proper franchise league and not 16 teams with plenty of overlapping games like the blast. And making it 20 overs wouldn’t make it any different, and they couldn’t scrap the blast because the counties make money from that

Mainly wishful thinking the leagues will somehow grow in the future just like how psl and bbl did after recording losses in the first years, especially for mlc and gt20 with the south Asian diaspora. For ilt20 and t10 Indian audience is their target with favourable time zones

I heard him on TMS today and had the same feeling.

what did Atherton question about?

Exactly...these jealous west journalists just want to blame BCCI for their lack of business skills.

Nobody likes India.

Let go of their share? That was never their share, it's always been the ICC's revenue and they're not entitled to taking most of it just like how the biggest football markets don't take back the most from FIFA and instead that money is allocated to growing the sport.

@@rangergaming8316 Is there a market in Fifa that generates 90% of the entire revenue?

No warm up games before tests!!

@@barrymcmanmon9595 You need first class warm up matches before and, preferably also, between test matches. This test series is a perfect example. Jayden Seales played a number of first class matches for Sussex earlier in the summer and has been by far the best West Indian bowler. In contrast, Shamar Joseph turned up a couple of days before the first test and has not been fully fit, let alone been ready to bowl in a test match. The West Indies are only starting to get into their stride now and it is the last test match. The tour itinerary has set them up to fail.

The idea behind a test tour was to represent your country, test your skills against the best from another country in different conditions and tour that country, soak up its culture etc. it was to be an ambassador and to do your country proud. It was not to earn silly points for a so-called world championship, which is so compromised as to be meaningless anyway. It was also not to complain that you can earn more money by bowling four overs in a Mickey Mouse entertainment show. Those players simply show that they are either greedy, lazy or both.

@@ce11amitkumaryadav83 that is not the BCCI's revenue and it never was. That is the ICC's revenue that they generate from their tournaments. You're the one smoking something because a decade ago, each full member used to 6.5% from the ICC while associates received 35% put together which has gone down to just 11% while the BCCI alone has gone by 6.5% to 38% while every other full member has stayed at the same spot or gone down in their share. It is indeed unfair distribution because again, this is the ICC's revenue and they're the sport's global body and it's their job to use their revenue to grow the sport and not hand it over to a certain board. No one is talking about the BCCI using their revenue generated from the IPL or any other domestic contract they have to grow the sport. There's a clear difference between the ICC's revenue and the BCCI's revenue. The BCCI also doesn't need the ICC's revenue to survive while most associate members do.

@@rangergaming8316 icc generates revenue and 90 percent revenue comes from india spectators

So? Its the iccs money not Indias. If in football all the money went to man utd and Liverpool from the premier league no one would watch it! Due to way an equal share is given to each club and the rest comes from final position and tv money you get a competitive lge the envy of every sport worldwide

@@MrDunkycraig yh bro dont worry the way its going the total icc revenue from indian market will be 99%. the games dying.

@@MrDunkycraig exactly, thank you!

we can keep talking about BCCI getting more share. But if they conntinue to do this, how will game grow and become global? Just because England and Australia in hte past didnt do it does not mean BCCI should not either? Have some consideration, show less greed and let game grow. If we don't want the game to grow global and compete foottball at some level at least, then sure enough, let BCCI have all it's share, keep getting fatter and let cricket keep getting smaller

@@TheSSCricketDiaries ICC should make that decision but they dont wanna take any risks. seems unlikely the games gonna grow

​@@TheSSCricketDiaries the burden to make cricket global lies on icc not bcci and England, Australia should try to bring more money to the cricket rather than blaming bcci instead of saying that bcci take 40 percent of share the debate should be India alone contribute 70 percent and because of bcci the cricket is thriving

Fine, keep all the money. Who are you going to play?

@@somersetsimon I am not saying that India should not contribute, what I want from rest of cricketing nation bring more money to the table there is too much dependence on India and in places like England and Australia cricket is struggling to attract new spectators India is already letting their 40 percent of their share go and I doubt any other board is doing that and look every other nations want to play with Indian team, we want cricket to grow but it should not be at bcci loss

Do you mean by BCB and ACB? 😂

Touring side gets a share of the broadcast deal, rather than just the home board taking it all.

At least they got rid of all the false enthusiasm and immature presenters that they mangled the first couple of years " lovvin it" with and trying to explain fielding positions to the 'yoof' by relating them to an analog clock !!

Is that why the BCCI, ECB and CA worked together to cut the ICC associate and regional development funding by two-thirds in 2015? As well as cutting the number of teams in the ODI World Cup from 14 to 10? We can't have these associates from the rest of the world getting better, wanting more money and risk beating India can we?

@@FencingOsprey Really... ??? 😂😂😂 Associates risk beating India 😂😂😂 England performed well only against Oman, US & Namibia in the entire world cup and lost to most of the other major nations. Maybe think about that once before sharing your thoughts.

@@FencingOsprey Also, my original comment just outlines the type of hypocrites you people are. Guys like you cannot see someone ahead... Let alone in terms of money.

@@shubhankarpradhan2672Oh dear. You seem to think I am English. That's so cute! I'm not, I'm from one of the associate countries which had their ICC funding cut in 2015 to fund BCCI, ECB and CA greed. England living in your head. Wanting to be just like them - colonial masters. It's so adorable! At least we know from comment the truth now. India fans are scared that an associate will become better than them one day so have to make sure they can't develop by making sure they don't get any funds or events.

@@shubhankarpradhan2672 You people? A little bit xenophobic are we? A little bit insecure? Worried about new countries coming into the game and becoming better at India at cricket? Want to keep the playing field as unfair as possible to make sure that doesn't happen? It's all very cute! But sadly it does nothing to grow the global game.

If begging is an art then ECB, CA and PCB are master artists... 😂

@@weird_philosopher True😂😂

Seriously shut up, do the biggest football markets in the world take back the most revenue from FIFA? No, FIFA's revenue is used to grow the sport in markets where it isn't popular. The 38% taken by the BCCI was never their revenue, it was always the ICC's revenue, no one in the world is asking them to give up their own revenue. The BCCI makes back multiple of what they receive from the ICC from the IPL alone. They don't need any of the money from the ICC to survive whereas most associates depend on that funding and are barely surviving. The ICC is the international body and it's their responsibility to grow the sport.

@rangergaming8316 You need to understand how capitalism works, mate. BCCI uses its business skills and networks to generate revenue so that Indian cricket can excel. If others want to improve their infrastructure, they shd find a way to be smarter and make more bucks instead of begging. Also, Fyi India is the biggest associate helping country in cricket. They frequently travel to zim,Sl,WI, and help afg host home games. So look into the mirror and ask yourself who is actually helping the world to develop its cricket and who is just after money (its CA and ECB, btw).

​@@shubhangkulkarni364 when did I ever praise ECB or CA? I've been highly critical of them as well. I know full well how capitalism works and foreign tours are all temporary boosts that are seen once every few years. The funding from the ICC on the other hand is actually something that's received every single year. Most associates are doing their best to grow the sport with what they have despite having close to nothing. Do you think Netherlands just magically qualified for the ODI World Cup last year? The tournament was restricted to 10 teams to ensure that associates have no shot at qualifying and they still overcame the odds by qualifying over three full members. Btw none of the countries that you listed there are actually associates. Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and West Indies have all been full members for decades. Maybe you should look up who the actual associate nations are before commenting about the topic.

Oh please shut up, just because they generate the most doesn't they should take the most. This is ICC's revenue that, not the BCCI's. The ICC is the international board and it's their responsibility to grow the sport and that revenue should be spent to do that. The BCCI makes multiples of what they get from the ICC from the IPL alone, they don't need the extra money. Supporting them taking the most money from the ICC is just flat out greed.

​@@rangergaming8316cry 😭more it is fair to say that india is compensating other countries to play cricket. Which they should not okay. 😊

​@@prakharnigam-z9p just go ahead and make cricket a sport exclusive to just India if that's the case. What's the point of wanting to play international cricket if you can't bother letting others have a chance at growing the sport. Btw I'm also an Indian but I actually want to see the sport grow and thrive, not be played by just a handful of countries.

You have a population of a billion people and it’s your main sport dumbass, if you want to just win every single test and tournament then great but don’t moan if it gets boring

@@rangergaming8316 get the fu** out of here if equality and spreading game story . What the hell did ICC or ecb do to spread the game when they were in full control of the game ? Zilch nothing ,nada so get out of your high moral ground horse and be real and salute the Indian cricket boards marketing and commercial acumen to make this sport rich and popularizing it and the world cricket owes BCCI for feeding them with its revenue .

How can you be in the catchment area of a Hundred team, but not a county?

Is the T20 blast too long for you?

Peasant!

@@somersetsimon I love my cricket, but I'm Scottish, my daughter lives in Staffordshire, so feel some allegiance to the Phoenix, which is a train ride away, when I'm down there.

@@benmarnoch4111 Birmingham Phoenix but not Birmingham Bears?