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Post by liquidskin on Aug 1, 2019 18:23:21 GMT
Ringcycle? I was expecting asterisks. That's total ringcycle.
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on Aug 5, 2019 14:33:37 GMT
They must be running low on things to report over at the Hundred (you could probably say the same about me). Having registered for email updates when the competition was launched, I've just received my latest communication. It was to tell me about the timeouts, with a link to the relevant page on the Hundred website. www.thehundred.com/news/1257435/introducing-the-timeout-
This page, in its current form, has been up since June. As you'd need to have found your way to the website to register for email updates in the first place, anyone receiving them probably won't need to be alerted to a six-week-old item on the site. Of course this doesn't matter very much. The £6.4m annual marketing campaign won't have begun to hit its stride yet. It just feels strangely amateurish and a bit desperate at the moment. The ECB must have felt it was probably about time they sent out another update, but they had nothing to announce (or nothing they wanted to announce). So they just looked around the website and chose an old story at random. "Oh we'll stick a link to that in the email. It's something, at least".
It's written in the usual, slightly demented, Hundred prose style:-
"The power to stop a match. Alter its direction. That's now possible ... Enter the Timeout ... THE TIMEOUT IS HERE ... Experience cricket at its strategic, most challenging best. Introducing the Timeout. The bowling side gets to take 150 seconds to breathe. A chance to turn the game ... OUTFOX YOUR OPPONENT ... The Timeout is a potential game-changer ... IT'S COMING ... We can’t wait for you to see it in action"
If you already think the Hundred sounds exciting, just wait until there's a couple of minutes when nothing happens.
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Post by flashblade on Aug 5, 2019 15:37:28 GMT
They must be running low on things to report over at the Hundred (you could probably say the same about me). Having registered for email updates when the competition was launched, I've just received my latest communication. It was to tell me about the timeouts, with a link to the relevant page on the Hundred website. www.thehundred.com/news/1257435/introducing-the-timeout-
This page, in its current form, has been up since June. As you'd need to have found your way to the website to register for email updates in the first place, anyone receiving them probably won't need to be alerted to a six-week-old item on the site. Of course this doesn't matter very much. The £6.4m annual marketing campaign won't have begun to hit its stride yet. It just feels strangely amateurish and a bit desperate at the moment. The ECB must have felt it was probably about time they sent out another update, but they had nothing to announce (or nothing they wanted to announce). So they just looked around the website and chose an old story at random. "Oh we'll stick a link to that in the email. It's something, at least".
It's written in the usual, slightly demented, Hundred prose style:-
"The power to stop a match. Alter its direction. That's now possible ... Enter the Timeout ... THE TIMEOUT IS HERE ... Experience cricket at its strategic, most challenging best. Introducing the Timeout. The bowling side gets to take 150 seconds to breathe. A chance to turn the game ... OUTFOX YOUR OPPONENT ... The Timeout is a potential game-changer ... IT'S COMING ... We can’t wait for you to see it in action"
If you already think the Hundred sounds exciting, just wait until there's a couple of minutes when nothing happens.
The ECB continues to reveal its hidden shallows. |
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Post by burgesshill on Aug 5, 2019 16:40:35 GMT
They must be running low on things to report over at the Hundred (you could probably say the same about me). Having registered for email updates when the competition was launched, I've just received my latest communication. It was to tell me about the timeouts, with a link to the relevant page on the Hundred website. www.thehundred.com/news/1257435/introducing-the-timeout-
This page, in its current form, has been up since June. As you'd need to have found your way to the website to register for email updates in the first place, anyone receiving them probably won't need to be alerted to a six-week-old item on the site. Of course this doesn't matter very much. The £6.4m annual marketing campaign won't have begun to hit its stride yet. It just feels strangely amateurish and a bit desperate at the moment. The ECB must have felt it was probably about time they sent out another update, but they had nothing to announce (or nothing they wanted to announce). So they just looked around the website and chose an old story at random. "Oh we'll stick a link to that in the email. It's something, at least".
It's written in the usual, slightly demented, Hundred prose style:-
"The power to stop a match. Alter its direction. That's now possible ... Enter the Timeout ... THE TIMEOUT IS HERE ... Experience cricket at its strategic, most challenging best. Introducing the Timeout. The bowling side gets to take 150 seconds to breathe. A chance to turn the game ... OUTFOX YOUR OPPONENT ... The Timeout is a potential game-changer ... IT'S COMING ... We can’t wait for you to see it in action"
If you already think the Hundred sounds exciting, just wait until there's a couple of minutes when nothing happens.
This sounds more and more like the sort of thing the losing team on 'The Apprentice' might come up with. 'Colin, you were team leader, and the buck stops with you. You're fired!' |
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on Aug 5, 2019 19:16:30 GMT
I imagine we won't know what hit us when the ECB light up the promotional afterburners and give it the full £6.4m. By way of a comparison, depending on how and where advertisers find you, you might be as sick as I am of the networked exercise-bike programme called Peloton. I feel as though I'll be able to recite the instructor's inane encouragements from memory on my deathbed ("OK Peloton - let's do this!" ... "Great work Peloton - you smashed it!"). I happened to read somewhere that Peloton's advertising campaign cost £7m - chillingly similar to the annual budget for the Hundred. You might need to be some kind of latterday Howard Hughes figure to remain oblivious to the Hundred.
Up until now, though, it's all been oddly perfunctory from the bizarre launch-day onwards, and that pointless email update just reinforces the sense that spreading the word about the Hundred is a right chore. The survey about what people thought of the idea of the Hundred was a pretty well-kept secret and ended a couple of days after I found about it by accident.
Whereas: the ECB continue to accept votes for the players you'd like to see in the Hundred, but you're still restricted to a list of the ten batsmen and bowlers with the best stats from the first two weeks of the World Cup (and who aren't Indian). I'd love to know what they're going to do with this information, except I'm certain it can only be a token gesture of 'engagement', and probably no one even looks at the responses. Here's the link again, as it looks even more ridiculous now than it did at the time. Anyway you might want to put in a good word for Joe Root's bowling, or perhaps you think the Hundred is made for Nathan Coulter-Nile's style of batting.
r1.surveysandforms.com/m/1b2sx2a0-ce3x7895-A615VLE6F0?utm_campaign=70204_The%20Hundred%201406&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ECB&dm_i=582Q
Well, this time next year we'll be halfway through the inaugural Hundred, and the world will doubtless seem a very different place.
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nemmo
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Post by nemmo on Aug 5, 2019 19:19:13 GMT
They must be running low on things to report over at the Hundred (you could probably say the same about me). Having registered for email updates when the competition was launched, I've just received my latest communication. It was to tell me about the timeouts, with a link to the relevant page on the Hundred website. www.thehundred.com/news/1257435/introducing-the-timeout-
This page, in its current form, has been up since June. As you'd need to have found your way to the website to register for email updates in the first place, anyone receiving them probably won't need to be alerted to a six-week-old item on the site. Of course this doesn't matter very much. The £6.4m annual marketing campaign won't have begun to hit its stride yet. It just feels strangely amateurish and a bit desperate at the moment. The ECB must have felt it was probably about time they sent out another update, but they had nothing to announce (or nothing they wanted to announce). So they just looked around the website and chose an old story at random. "Oh we'll stick a link to that in the email. It's something, at least".
It's written in the usual, slightly demented, Hundred prose style:-
"The power to stop a match. Alter its direction. That's now possible ... Enter the Timeout ... THE TIMEOUT IS HERE ... Experience cricket at its strategic, most challenging best. Introducing the Timeout. The bowling side gets to take 150 seconds to breathe. A chance to turn the game ... OUTFOX YOUR OPPONENT ... The Timeout is a potential game-changer ... IT'S COMING ... We can’t wait for you to see it in action"
If you already think the Hundred sounds exciting, just wait until there's a couple of minutes when nothing happens.
Holy ****. That's absolutely appalling. I get the whole marketing angle they are going for but this is so over the top it's comical. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 9, 2019 10:23:06 GMT
Shane Warne is named as the Coach of the '100' City team based at Lord's. Five more coaches to
be found.
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on Aug 9, 2019 14:44:35 GMT
Here we go. www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27353852/hundred-window-england-international-schedule
"The first match in the competition will be played on Friday July 17 (the day after England play Australia in an ODI) with two games on each of the following days. The final will be held on August 15, with a reserve day in case of rain. England players are also expected to be made available for the final."
I just hope no one gets themselves out Roy-style in the Test commencing five days later, and chortles "I think I was still in Hundred mode there!"
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Bazpan
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Post by Bazpan on Aug 9, 2019 15:35:23 GMT
As in Flashblade's John Maynard Keynes quote, Shane Warne's information has changed, and he's acted accordingly.
28th August 2018: "I'm not sure I'm a fan of the Hundred. I think we've got three formats that work really well and you don't need to confuse spectators with any more."
9th August 2019: "I love the concept of the Hundred and it has grabbed my attention in the same way the IPL did."
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 10, 2019 10:07:30 GMT
Everything about the 'Hundred' is a farce and a total waste of time and money. I wouldn't p**s on it if it was on fire, I hope nobody turns up and it dies a horrible death. I love the concept though, it's really grabbing my attention.
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Post by joe on Aug 10, 2019 12:19:40 GMT
What everyone has failed to realise is that next year is an Olympic year and the 100 will be completely overshadowed. Probably end up being shown on BBC 4
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Post by deepfineleg on Aug 10, 2019 12:41:46 GMT
What everyone has failed to realise is that next year is an Olympic year and the 100 will be completely overshadowed. Probably end up being shown on BBC 4 The Olympics are in Tokyo, so unlikely to clash, live, with an evening match in England & Wales. And Sky don't show the Olympics. |
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Post by flashblade on Aug 10, 2019 14:10:34 GMT
What everyone has failed to realise is that next year is an Olympic year and the 100 will be completely overshadowed. Probably end up being shown on BBC 4 The Olympics are in Tokyo, so unlikely to clash, live, with an evening match in England & Wales. And Sky don't show the Olympics. True, but the Olympics will be on free to air TV - that's why it will hopefully overshadow the 100. |
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Post by joe on Aug 10, 2019 14:41:45 GMT
What everyone has failed to realise is that next year is an Olympic year and the 100 will be completely overshadowed. Probably end up being shown on BBC 4 The Olympics are in Tokyo, so unlikely to clash, live, with an evening match in England & Wales. And Sky don't show the Olympics. But part of the media hype around the 100 is that it will be shown on free-to-air tv, that’s why the 100 was originally thought up because it’s a format that will fit into a BBC sport slot of 3 hours! |
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