Other counties 2015 - a tangled thread of doom and triumph

Moronic scheduling of t20 qfs by the ecb.

They started the third qf tonight at 5.30 at a ground without floodlights. This isn't June. In two weeks time the start of lvcc matches is brought forward 30 mins so that play can END at 5.30 before the light fades. And lo and behold eight overs into the second innings they go off for bad light.

Yet the fourth qf tomorrow is scheduled to start at 2.30 at a ground that has floodlights.

WTF???

None of that excuses it at all.

First requirement is you play the games at a time that enables them to be finished. Therefore the game at the only ground of the four without floodlights should have been scheduled for sat or sun afternoon - or you start it at 4.30 not 5.30.

Either Kent or Worcs could have hosted their game on Sunday. Or you move the qfs to grounds that can host them. Kent could have played at the oval and might have got 20,000 as it would be the last t20 London would see until next season. Worcs could have asked to play under the lights at edgbaston . Indeed I bet they now wish they had after being robbed of the chance to make their first ever finals day due to the lack of facilities at their own ground.

Yet more proof of why we need a super league played in 21st century test match stadia so we don't get these parochial cock-ups.

Therefore the Worcester match had to be played last night. It is Sky who dictated the start time, therefore they should have paid for floodlights in my opinion.

I agree, in principle, BM - but Sky had scheduled the Womens test match to be broadcast right up to the start of the Worcester match. Sky seem to want to broadcast both matches on the same channel = deadlock.

Cricinfo article blames the ECB and Worcestershire:

www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/909951.html