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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 15:23:41 GMT
The counties installed floodlights, presumably to get Friday night beer drinkers in.
From 2017 I can't see the floodlights will get used very much. The odd murky afternoon in the CC, a few evenings may be in the high summer/school hols blocks of the T20 but certainly less than at present as there will be Sat and Sun afternoon games, and not at all in the RLC 50 over comp, which is going to be played in April so will require reversion to sensible 10.30 to 6.30 playing hours rather than the 2 - 10pm currently favoured.
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Post by leedsgull on Mar 12, 2016 15:31:53 GMT
The installation of floodlights in this country was always going to be an expensive flop due to our climate and the long twilight period in summer. Friday nights just about worked in attracting the young beer drinkers and they are precisely the new audience 20/20 hoped to bring in. Having made some progress to now revert to trying for the school kids and parents is just perverse.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 13:23:23 GMT
Toumasi welcomes the changes for 2017: www.theargus.co.uk/sport/14340656.Sussex_chief_says_structural_change_is_necessary_if_county_cricket_is_to_thrive/Plenty that's worth comment there, but I'd pick out two things. “The key thing for us was having the Twenty20 competition played in the summer holidays so hopefully we can attract a new audience. We need kids coming into the ground so we can engage with a new generation of cricket fans."This represents a total flip-flop of Sussex's marketing strategy of recent years when the club was gung-ho for turning T20s into Friday night beer drinking contests. Is the switch to marketing T20 at kids who aren't old enough to drink related to the new policy of community engagement ? “Having one less Championship match at Hove from 2017 is not ideal but we have to accept that Twenty20 and 50-over cricket is an exciting brand of cricket which fans want to watch."Passing over the dubious claim that anybody wants to watch the Royal London Cup, can we take the reference to "one less championship match at Hove" to mean that Arundel is safe and there will be a maximum of six CC games at the county ground (and possibly only five if financial support can be found for a return to Horsham?)
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 15, 2016 13:48:54 GMT
Toumasi welcomes the changes for 2017: www.theargus.co.uk/sport/14340656.Sussex_chief_says_structural_change_is_necessary_if_county_cricket_is_to_thrive/Plenty that's worth comment there, but I'd pick out two things. “The key thing for us was having the Twenty20 competition played in the summer holidays so hopefully we can attract a new audience. We need kids coming into the ground so we can engage with a new generation of cricket fans."This represents a total flip-flop of Sussex's marketing strategy of recent years when the club was gung-ho for turning T20s into Friday night beer drinking contests. Is the switch to marketing T20 at kids who aren't old enough to drink related to the new policy of community engagement ? “Having one less Championship match at Hove from 2017 is not ideal but we have to accept that Twenty20 and 50-over cricket is an exciting brand of cricket which fans want to watch."Passing over the dubious claim that anybody wants to watch the Royal London Cup, can we take the reference to "one less championship match at Hove" to mean that Arundel is safe and there will be a maximum of six CC games at the county ground (and possibly only five if financial support can be found for a return to Horsham?) Looks like a conversion to pragmatism for the first quote, and for the second I think you may be reading it a little too closely: for the Sussex management team Championship cricket (or any other kind) IS Hove, and anything else is an opportunity to be heavily risk-assessed. Arundel will keep going for a year or two because of the strength of involvement of so many well-connected traditionalists on the board, but Horsham will not be resumed unless there is a complete change of attitude to how first-class cricket can be marketed. It is clear from everything that has been said last year and this, that Sussex expects the council to subsidise the fixture and doesn't consider that it is their task to go out and sell it. Arundel sells itself (to a very limited extent) by trading equally on the picturesque and on snobbery. A shame that Horsham, despite being a very good wicket, excellently maintained, in a location easily accessible to the whole of the county isn't as pretty, and is less of a social occasion.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 18, 2016 10:10:32 GMT
A typical thought-provoking piece from Cricinfo editor, David Hopps. Features of this calibre only make it more difficult for monthly magazines like The Cricketer to compete. Hopps article is fresh and on the money whereas by the time a magazine comes to publish such a story, it's already yesterday news. Simon Hughes, the newly installed editor, may well be wasting his time. This last ditch attempt to save The Cricketer may come to nothing. Sometimes the competition is too unjust and far too ahead of the curve. As former editor and still a little embittered, Andrew Miller, tweets: "I see @thecricketermag has seen sense and reinstalled an editor to run the show. Their claim that the role was "redundant" was asinine." www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/983487.html
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Post by theleopard on Mar 18, 2016 13:59:18 GMT
A typical thought-provoking piece from Cricinfo editor, David Hopps. Features of this calibre only make it more difficult for monthly magazines like The Cricketer to compete. Hopps article is fresh and on the money whereas by the time a magazine comes to publish such a story, it's already yesterday news. Simon Hughes, the newly installed editor, may well be wasting his time. This last ditch attempt to save The Cricketer may come to nothing. Sometimes the competition is too unjust and far too ahead of the curve. As former editor and still a little embittered, Andrew Miller, tweets: "I see @thecricketermag has seen sense and reinstalled an editor to run the show. Their claim that the role was "redundant" was asinine." www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/983487.htmlIt's tricky. Personally the thing I don't like about The Cricketer is too many "coffee table" magazine-type articles - I don't really care what a cricketer thinks about his home town, or another fairly bland interview with an England star. But I also think there are some very good articles. Every year I come round to renew it's a close thing but I keep doing it. Obviously they are trying to appeal as widely as possible. The problem with the David Hopps article is that a lot of cricket fans might actually think it is boring. It's yet another industry/business story about English cricket's "problems". I must say that even I am pretty tired of so many articles telling us what is wrong with English cricket this week. I didn't realise The Cricketer was under threat of finishing.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 27, 2016 11:35:31 GMT
Former Worcestershire CEO, David Leatherdale, who has just taken over from Angus Porter at the PCA, stokes the fire for an impending EPL by suggesting that a Franchise tournament could/may/might be in place by 2020. While one tires of speculation and cry wolf, the enthusiasm for such a competition from certain quarters won't go away. It is also positive to hear Leatherdale state: “From the players’ point of view they are far more comfortable with the structure in 2017, with blocks of T20 matches, rather than the current [season-long Friday night competition] and all the travelling that goes with it." Meanwhile, it is also good to hear that Leatherdale has spent the pre-season on a tour of the counties with former England players Chris Lewis and Graeme Fowler. One a former jailbird and the other a mental health expert gained from personal experience. Did they visit Sussex, I wonder? To remind readers of Lewis' offence. From his wiki: (One will avoid all the obvious puns like "What a Charlie!") On 8 December 2008, Lewis was arrested at Gatwick Airport on suspicion of smuggling 3.37 kilograms of liquid cocaine, with a street value of about £140,000, into the United Kingdom on a flight from Saint Lucia.
After a trial at Croydon Crown Court, on 20 May 2009 Lewis and basketball player Chad Kirnon were found guilty and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was released in June 2015 after serving 6 years of his sentence at HMP High Down.
His defence: www.standard.co.uk/news/i-thought-i-was-carrying-fruit-juice-says-former-england-cricketer-chris-lewis-6799352.htmlwww.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/25/david-leatherdale-players-union-franchise-t20-england-county-cricket
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Post by joe on May 19, 2016 19:57:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 20:14:32 GMT
Graves: "Without speaking out of turn, I think most would agree that our tournament is mediocre when compared. We want to have something that will stand out in our summer.” Luke Wright and Chris Jordan know the T20 Big Bash is mediocre. But Jim May and Zac Toumasi don't think so. They tell us the T20 Blast is so great that they oppose all plans to change it. Even though Sussex are one of the most mediocre sides when it comes to playing in it...
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Post by flashblade on May 19, 2016 20:15:31 GMT
Colin Graves adopting the Gerald Ratner approach to marketing. What a strange way to launch the new T20 season.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2016 20:18:35 GMT
Loved this post on the Kent board comparing the IPL to the T20 Blast:
"The IPL...where it's warm, hardly any rain, the cricket is played at night, the tickets are cheap; the crowds are mostly huge and where the players are idolised and get paid a great deal of money.
Compare and contrast the Blasted T20 : it's warm only if you have 3 long sleeve jumpers on; if it isn't raining it soon will be; the cricket is at best played under not-so-great floodlights but mostly in some form of odd twilight; the crowd numbers aren't that great; most of the crowd that does fork out an extortionate amount of cash for tickets for the family and do actually turn up, won't recognise two-thirds of the players; the money is just part of a generally poor annual salary and in any case, just isn't there unless it's a short term, 3 or 4 game contract and then back to the Caribbean for the CPL.
Other than that, there's not a lot to choose between the two events. Apart from the fact that one is done in 6 weeks and the other takes 16."
Brilliantly put!
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Post by fraudster on May 20, 2016 18:27:08 GMT
Well I've just gone from watching IPL to T20 Blast and I can't notice any difference - I am deaf and blind though. The best we'll ever do is get the schedule right so that the best English players are playing. The rest, like the frigging weather, isn't doable in England.
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