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Post by coverpoint on Jul 4, 2021 13:13:39 GMT
By the wall of adverts I suspect tickets aren’t selling well.
Cheapest adult tickets for the first match at The Oval are now just £12, and it's free to Surrey (and possibly Kent) members. I'm sure the price was higher than that a couple of weeks ago. (Surrey charge £29 for the Blast games, which usually sell out.) They might fill the ground, given that a lot of people will have missed out on attending Blast games due to the restricted capacity, but ticket revenue will be nowhere near as high.
No doubt they'll blame the Tokyo Olympics for poor turn outs and viewing figures.
I must confess synchronised swimming does seem a more interesting prospect.
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Post by Bazpan on Jul 4, 2021 16:00:09 GMT
By the wall of adverts I suspect tickets aren’t selling well.
Cheapest adult tickets for the first match at The Oval are now just £12, and it's free to Surrey (and possibly Kent) members. I'm sure the price was higher than that a couple of weeks ago. (Surrey charge £29 for the Blast games, which usually sell out.) They might fill the ground, given that a lot of people will have missed out on attending Blast games due to the restricted capacity, but ticket revenue will be nowhere near as high.
No doubt they'll blame the Tokyo Olympics for poor turn outs and viewing figures.
I must confess synchronised swimming does seem a more interesting prospect.
Still, I sense that ticket sales aren't going brilliantly. Finals Day is sold out, and just 7 of the other 34 fixtures are shown as "Selling Fast!". Aside from Finals Day oscillating between sold out and selling fast, this situation has remained unchanged for several months. It looks as though people who were already primed for The Hundred pounced on the tickets as soon as they went on sale in the spring, and not all that many tickets have been sold since then. If the ECB reasoned that summer matches are an easier sell to a potential new audience when it's already summer than they would have been in a dank, drizzly March and April, I can see an argument for saving the marketing budget until now. Still feels a bit last-minute though. Even with things being the way they are, many people will already have made plans for mid-July to mid-August that will preclude them getting to Hundred games, even if they might have fancied going once they'd been subjected to the marketing onslaught.
I'm pretty sure Surrey threw Hundred tickets in with membership last year (and I know that Kent didn't). So that's probably the case again this year. If £12 adult tickets are now available for Oval games then they have almost certainly been reduced, as you suggest. Last year some friends and I decided to go to the inaugural match at The Oval. We didn't book the cheapest tickets so it'll be no use me checking back to see what they cost, but I remember being surprised at how much the cheapest Oval tickets did cost. The Hundred's promotional materials then (as now) kept stressing that adult tickets for the competition as a whole started at £10, but the cheapest tickets for The Oval were nothing like a tenner. More like £25, if I remember rightly.
I hope you don't insist on crowd noise with your synchronised swimming. Any spectators who end up being allowed into the Tokyo Olympics will be forbidden from talking loudly, never mind cheering. If it's atmosphere you want, The Hundred will be where it's at.
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Post by gmdf on Jul 5, 2021 8:36:34 GMT
It looks like the 100 is still causing hilarity amongst those looking at it from outside. This from the Daily Mail:  |
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Post by flashblade on Jul 5, 2021 8:46:05 GMT
Judging by its Facebook page, it's not at all clear that those running it know anything about cricket. It is a greater shambles than I could ever have wished for.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 9:35:45 GMT
The BBC are on the ball with their team profiles as well  |
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Post by Bazpan on Jul 5, 2021 11:09:08 GMT
On Betfair, 'the Brave' are favourites to win The Hundred at 4.7-1. Interesting to note that the total volume of bets placed on this market currently stands at £0. By way of comparison, £15,000 has been staked so far on the T20 World Cup. That tournament is a much bigger deal of course, but it's also three months away as opposed to a fortnight.
Of course if the betting public regard The Hundred as an event with a largely randomised outcome they're going to want 7-1 or better before they feel they're getting value, even for just a 'fun bet'. The longest odds on offer for any franchise are 6.8-1, so the market as a whole isn't making any serious attempt to stimulate betting activity. Essentially, neither backers nor layers are showing any interest in The Hundred at the moment.
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Post by Bazpan on Jul 5, 2021 18:35:36 GMT
Eoin Morgan says Buttler and Stokes are unlikely to feature in the T20 series against Pakistan. "The last thing we want to do is rush somebody back and jump with the level of intensity from county cricket to international when there isn't necessarily a need".
They just need a bit more time. You couldn't reasonably ask Buttler and Stokes to jump into the intensity level of even just the last T20 v. Pakistan a fortnight on Tuesday, but by the weekend they'll be ready for The Hundred (a competition predicted by its organisers to be the most intense cricket ever played on the planet). Not for us to wonder about the mysteries of players' preparation. It's obviously all been very finely calibrated.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 16, 2021 6:57:11 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Jul 16, 2021 15:02:41 GMT
I sometimes think I'm living in a parallel universe. Is this just oxymoronic - or just moronic?  |
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Post by Bazpan on Jul 17, 2021 16:43:31 GMT
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Post by liquidskin on Jul 18, 2021 9:01:38 GMT
So what's our 50 over side gonna look like? I'm feeling kids, and lots of them.
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Post by philh on Jul 18, 2021 11:23:31 GMT
So what's our 50 over side gonna look like? I'm feeling kids, and lots of them. Similar to the County Championship side, I would assume, without Ollie Robinson and Delray Rawlins. |
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 18, 2021 16:47:31 GMT
So what's our 50 over side gonna look like? I'm feeling kids, and lots of them. 50 over squad Atkins Beer Brown Carson Carter Clark Claydon Coles Crocombe Haines Head Hunt Ibrahim Lenham A Meaker Orr Sarro Thomason Van Zyl Ward |
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Post by liquidskin on Jul 18, 2021 19:42:00 GMT
We have a humongous squad. Never thought I'd say that this season. It needs trimming - I can put at least one name forward, although he's thankfully forwarded himself. Some of these T20 crew can cut loose I think.
Haines
Orr
Head
Ward
Coles
Carter
Ibrahim
Carson
Atkins
Sarro
Hunt
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Post by coverpoint on Jul 24, 2021 13:26:55 GMT
No Jofra Archer, De Kock, Lintott, Overton and Waller for Southern Brave.
No Carter, Cook, Cox, van der Gugten and Luke Wright for Trent Rockets.
South Brave? More likes lambs to the slaughter!
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