Rob
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Post by Rob on May 8, 2024 17:39:29 GMT
The attendance figures must be customers paying at the gate, no ? And each county hosting a couple of four days games in August would swell those numbers considerably.
Four formats has always one too many. Time to put 50 over cricket to bed
The Hundred will morph into a poorly thought through city based 20/20 competition in four years time. What sport sets out to shrink its customer base. Homer Simpson time. Interesting that one day of a full house at Lord’s test brings in more £ than the whole season of the stoopid Hundred. But then again the latter is not about sport as we know, but purely money.
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Post by squarepoint on May 8, 2024 20:21:44 GMT
I have to accept that it’s probably necessary to maximise revenue by playing the most popular format of the game during the school holidays. I have two main problems with The 100 though. Firstly, it shortens the match even beyond T20 in a way that no other country has felt necessary. Secondly it introduced new city based franchises divorced from the counties and existing supporters.
I think both of these problems could be overcome. The shortened format was to help secure a TV deal I think but with traditional broadcast TV on the way out, this could be resolved by extending to T20 and streaming games online. There could be 9 franchises each drawing from a pair of counties supplemented by additional overseas players. Established cricket fans would then care more about the results. Every county would get to host a minimum number of games. The Blast could be shortened to allow a quick fire knockout 50 over tournament.
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Post by Rob on May 8, 2024 21:15:54 GMT
I have to accept that it’s probably necessary to maximise revenue by playing the most popular format of the game during the school holidays. I have two main problems with The 100 though. Firstly, it shortens the match even beyond T20 in a way that no other country has felt necessary. Secondly it introduced new city based franchises divorced from the counties and existing supporters. I think both of these problems could be overcome. The shortened format was to help secure a TV deal I think but with traditional broadcast TV on the way out, this could be resolved by extending to T20 and streaming games online. There could be 9 franchises each drawing from a pair of counties supplemented by additional overseas players. Established cricket fans would then care more about the results. Every county would get to host a minimum number of games. The Blast could be shortened to allow a quick fire knockout 50 over tournament. Bingo - all the wretched ECB needs to do is amalgamate Sussex and Hampshire for the Hundred, play at least one home match at Hove and job done. Many more fans would then buy into it. Middlesex and Essex are almost ground sharing already. I have a chum who for many years has organised large groups of all ages to attend the games of the county he supports. He does this usually three times a season. Even though he follows a county with a test ground, he refuses to ever purchase any tickets or help anyone attend the Hundred. Truly it is an unnecessarily divisive event.
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on May 9, 2024 8:48:24 GMT
That last point is an admirable attitude from your friend.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 9, 2024 12:42:04 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on May 17, 2024 7:30:24 GMT
As a follow on from a previous post, below is a list of the full 18 counties and their Championship home attendance figures for 2023. This was posted on 'X' by the County Cricket Members Group. The tweet says, "Can we set up a working Group of volunteers at each county to devise a plan to improve them? "Who is willing to volunteer?" Good to see Sussex coming 10th 8th in the full table and beating two TMGs. Kudos to Somerset. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/KYGY2YmH/Sx-1.jpg)
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Post by squarepoint on May 17, 2024 9:47:38 GMT
That’s poor for Lancashire and Warwickshire given their status and catchment area. Warwicks should never be behind Worcs in attendance. More evidence that cricket shouldn’t just consolidate around The Hundred franchises.
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Post by squarepoint on May 17, 2024 9:49:13 GMT
By the way Sussex are 8th rather than 10th in this table. Even better!
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Post by sixandout on May 19, 2024 5:39:05 GMT
Can anyone explain how St Peter’s got 4 points from this defeat? ![](https://i.postimg.cc/0yHV95X1/IMG-2897.jpg)
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Post by therealab1 on May 19, 2024 7:16:06 GMT
4 bonus bowling points
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