The idea of 100 ball cricket as a premier league is juss awful to me. Like i watch ipl or bbl or psl to see what can a player do in this format so when he'll be up against my national team in bilaterals or the t20 wcs i know what to expect. HUNDRED is kinda rogue format cricket when you think about it.
The ECB saying the 100 is making a profit is beyond disingenuous. How can any business claim a profit when it doesn't counter in its biggest expense. The player salaries. It claims 10m, 10m and 15m in the first three years... If you count profit in a way no business could ever calculate it and no tax and revenue system would ever accept. Fanos Hira's report into it gets right to the grass roots and shows The Hundred has LOST 91 million in 3 years
Exactly, he stands to gain a lot more long term money from the MLC and there isn't even the history factor associated with the Hundred like there was with Wrexham.
The T20 Blasts is played in the evenings, but in England we don’t really have the conditions to play pink ball test cricket. Even countries likev Australia play very little pink ball cricket.
I really don’t like the idea of “tribalism” in cricket- I can’t think of anything worse than it ending up with a football style diehard fan culture. There are more important things than money.
I don't mind The Hundred, but it's a bubblegum tournament. Good bit of fun but doesn't last long. I like the women and men being played on the same day as well.
Yes England is really the only country that puts a much effort into Women’s Cricket as it does the mens and yes it’s nice to have double headers 2 games in 1 day
There is no "real cricket". Everyone have their ideas & perspectives of cricket that they enjoy and let the F enjoy them. If you enjoy test, cool. For me I personally enjoy both
The hundred is just a bad tournament, the ecb don’t know what they’re doing. England started t20 over 20 years ago. Imagine what could have been done with cricket in the UK if it had somebody competent in charge. A real city based tournament, separate from the wretched county system, with world class stadiums and a built in fan base. The only place that had the resources to be a challenge to the IPL. Instead they asked mumsnet users what they didn’t like about cricket and came up with the hundred😂
How about a T20 league consisting of 8 teams of hundred and two teams from finalist of vitality blast. Every team Plays 9 matches in a season. A short and sweet tournament.b This will give a purpose to vitality blast and england will have two premium T20 tournament. It will be a win win situation.
