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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 21:03:42 GMT
Haven't previously been a fan of this cinderella competition but a fabulous day at Beckenham today to watch Kent beat Surrey in the final over has changed my mind.
Good crowd : actually bigger than that for the T20 v Glos at the same venue on Friday evening. Perfect weather : helped by an 11 am start, not the completely bonkers 2 pm start at Hove tomorrow, which is why I won't be going. Great cricket : not a run feast played on a road but a tight contest between bat and ball.
After seven and a half hours of cricket, the game went into the last over with three results possible. What more could you want?
All six games today started at 11 am and finished at a sensible time. I bet every one of them got a bigger crowd than Sussex gets for its 10pm finish tomorrow... will Sussex still finish games at 10pm next season when the group matches are due to be played in April/May? If the early season slot forces the club to play the matches at a sensible time, I shall be there, because at its best 50 overs cricket can be spectacularly entertaining. It certainly was today.
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Post by flashblade on Jun 6, 2016 8:21:40 GMT
I agree that the climax of a 50 over match can be very entertaining when it is a close run thing. The downside for me is that, even in such a match, the early periods of play can be tedious. Of all the possible scenarios in a 100 over match, IMO it's only when there's a tight finish that the match is seen, in hindsight, to be entertaining.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2016 10:22:59 GMT
Yes, 50 overs games can be dull , fb - usually when it's 350 to the team batting first and the chasing side finds itself 27-4. Game over.
But yesterday was fascinating from start to finish. There were very few points in the seven and a half hours when you were quite sure which side had the upper hand. And in the odd moments when one side did seem to get 'ahead', there would suddenly be a clatter of wickets or a sprinkling of boundaries to make you change your mind again...
I really think it helps when the entire game is played in daylight, not the annoying day-night, neither-one-thing-or-t'other hybrid that Sussex favours at Hove. Thank heavens the rescheduling from 2017 looks set to put an end to that. Even Sussex can't expect people to sit there from 2pm to 10 pm in April and May!
Sussex play Surrey at Guildford in a couple of weeks in the RL Cup and I shall go to that as it will all be over by 7pm. But I won't be going to any games at Hove that finish at 10pm. It's a shame there is not a 50 over game at Arundel or Horsham this season.
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Post by flashblade on Jun 6, 2016 11:36:09 GMT
Yes, 50 overs games can be dull , fb - usually when it's 350 to the team batting first and the chasing side finds itself 27-4. Game over. But yesterday was fascinating from start to finish. There were very few points in the seven and a half hours when you were quite sure which side had the upper hand. And in the odd moments when one side did seem to get 'ahead', there would suddenly be a clatter of wickets or a sprinkling of boundaries to make you change your mind again... I really think it helps when the entire game is played in daylight, not the annoying day-night, neither-one-thing-or-t'other hybrid that Sussex favours at Hove. Thank heavens the rescheduling from 2017 looks set to put an end to that. Even Sussex can't expect people to sit there from 2pm to 10 pm in April and May! Sussex play Surrey at Guildford in a couple of weeks in the RL Cup and I shall go to that as it will all be over by 7pm. But I won't be going to any games at Hove that finish at 10pm. It's a shame there is not a 50 over game at Arundel or Horsham this season. I agree wholeheartedly with your view about the annoying 2pm to 10pm scheduling. I won't go to any of those matches. Don't be surprised if Sussex still try this on in May next year - there's a lot of lager to shift! |
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Post by fraudster on Jun 6, 2016 13:55:20 GMT
Certainly dull at the moment - and I'm one of the few fans of the format. Have to agree about the 11am starts being better - maybe not in April though next year, who knows. If they get better crowds than Sussex today BM it may be more to do with the day they're playing. Dunno about you but once I've groveled to the Great Gig in the Sky at church I'm a free man on Sundays. Monday though, eye to eye with emus for the best part of the day.
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Post by deepfineleg on Jun 8, 2016 10:44:01 GMT
Yes, 50 overs games can be dull , fb - usually when it's 350 to the team batting first and the chasing side finds itself 27-4. Game over. But yesterday was fascinating from start to finish. There were very few points in the seven and a half hours when you were quite sure which side had the upper hand. And in the odd moments when one side did seem to get 'ahead', there would suddenly be a clatter of wickets or a sprinkling of boundaries to make you change your mind again... I really think it helps when the entire game is played in daylight, not the annoying day-night, neither-one-thing-or-t'other hybrid that Sussex favours at Hove. Thank heavens the rescheduling from 2017 looks set to put an end to that. Even Sussex can't expect people to sit there from 2pm to 10 pm in April and May! Sussex play Surrey at Guildford in a couple of weeks in the RL Cup and I shall go to that as it will all be over by 7pm. But I won't be going to any games at Hove that finish at 10pm. It's a shame there is not a 50 over game at Arundel or Horsham this season. I agree wholeheartedly with your view about the annoying 2pm to 10pm scheduling. I won't go to any of those matches. Don't be surprised if Sussex still try this on in May next year - there's a lot of lager to shift! I assume 2pm starts on weekdays are primarily for TV (although last night Yorkshire didn't help with filling Sky's evening schedule - all over around 7pm). I don't see any advantage otherwise to day/night for Sussex. On Monday at Hove I didn't notice any significant influx of people after work - in fact the crowd seemed sparser - so that lager must have remained unshifted. |
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