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Post by flashblade on May 4, 2021 8:15:36 GMT
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Post by flashblade on May 4, 2021 10:13:08 GMT
A possible silver lining - the competition might be re-started at a time that clashes with The Hundred.  |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 4, 2021 11:15:02 GMT
Here is a link to the latest and most up-to-date news on the IPL "indefinite postponement". indianexpress.com/article/sports/ipl/ipl-2021-live-updates-ipl-action-set-to-resume-with-srh-vs-mi-battle-in-delhi-7301321/You've gotta feel sorry for the 30 Aussie players now stranded in India until the very earliest May 15th and the way the situation is developing, probably longer. So, who now pays for their hotel food and lodging? Cricket Australia or does it come out of the players' own pockets? What a nightmare given the eco-bubble has proven to be fallible and Covid-19 testing appears to be as unreliable as Del Boy's Robin Reliant. Full biological warfare PPE, 24 hours a day, perhaps? Anyone getting cabin fever and who may attempt a Colditz-style escape, if caught entering Australia could be fined £37,000 or at worst a 5-year prison sentence! So, what of the 11 England cricketers stuck in India? unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/37342/thread |
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on May 6, 2021 14:38:29 GMT
You've probably read about this crazy idea for the remainder of the IPL to be held at English county grounds in September. Several counties (including Surrey, Warwickshire and Lancashire - there may be more) plus the MCC have got together to make this offer.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/ipl-2021-england-counties-offer-to-host-remainder-of-ipl-in-september-1262406
Everyone seems to have forgotten (at least in the articles I've read) that the Division stage of the County Championship is meant to take place between 30th August and 24th September. And if it doesn't, it'll be because the T20 Blast has been moved to September to take advantage of less restrictive Covid regs. I suppose the relevant counties' home games in the Championship could be moved to outgrounds, as unsatisfactory as that might be. But if the T20 Blast ends up being played in September I wouldn't have thought Surrey would want to play their games at somewhere like Whitgift School, since they can fill The Oval for the Blast.
There's any number of other reasons why this is a lousy idea. On the face of it, it doesn't seem to have been thought through at all. And from the county fans' point of view, it's hard enough already getting any kind of season together that we can actually go and watch without it being hijacked by the bleedin' IPL. What are they thinking of?!
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on May 10, 2021 21:15:42 GMT
[This was just the first remotely relevant thread I could quickly find to append this to]
About 10 years ago I predicted on the We Are Kent forum that T20 would be dead within 5 years. I didn't say "Mark my words!" or anything like that, but I did think that before long the point would be reached where people would start leaving the ground after a T20 game going "If I ever see another six I'll throw up", and the whole thing would just peter out. I got that one wrong, and how?! So perhaps I'm also wrong in wondering whether there's a risk of T20 saturation. Still, we must be getting close?
Here's the schedule of matches of T20 (and shorter!) that I think we'll be able to watch on Sky between now and the end of the year. It's difficult to set it out chronologically since so many tournaments overlap. For example, as you go down the list it looks as though the period between 26th June and 16th July is a T20 desert, until you remember that the gap is more than covered by the Blast group stage listed higher up (so long does it go on). Really this would be better represented by what office phoneys call a Gantt Chart (which is nothing more than a scientific-sounding name for an old wipe-clean Sasco year planner).
I can't be certain that Sky will show absolutely all of it. But they've got the CPL, and presumably they'll continue with the PSL and the IPL (if some minuscule window can be contrived for the latter). Conceivably they'll spare us the T20 games away to Bangladesh and Pakistan, but even if so, it would only be a fleeting respite. I can't help thinking I must have missed some tournaments (e.g., Sky have covered the T20 on ice in St Moritz in the past). Anyway I find the sheer density of it rather shocking. (Others may just find this a useful aide-memoire).
June 1st to June 20th: Pakistan Super League resumption (20 matches remaining)
June 9th to July 18th: Vitality Blast group stage
June 23rd, 24th & 26th: England v. Sri Lanka
July 16th, 18th & 20th: England v. Pakistan
July 22nd to August 21st: The Hundred
August 24th to 27th: Vitality Blast quarter-finals
August & September: Caribbean Premier League
September 18th: Vitality Blast finals day
September (latter half if at all): Indian Premier League resumption (31 matches remaining)
October (early I think): Bangladesh v. England (3 T20s)
October 14th & 15th: Pakistan v. England
October & November: T20 World Cup
Is it too much? Or am I just one of those blazered traditionalists you read about? Or will T20 disappear up its own jacksie as it flails around trying to find windows within windows?
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Post by burgesshill on May 11, 2021 6:47:45 GMT
Much as I dislike the IPL, it is a more valid competition than the hundred will ever be.
Provided they pay us for the privilege I would let the IPL take place in the UK, because it could be used to help repair the bank balances of the counties.
Many Indian fans based in the UK would fill the grounds, and the rest of us could enjoy the climax of the county championship.
Only condition: english players must play in the championship, not IPL.
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