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Post by theleopard on Oct 7, 2019 8:25:01 GMT
I agree that alcohol is a social issue in this country. But, the subject of this discussion is (was?!) junk food promotion by the ECB. You implied that my opinion was being delivered from 'the high ground' - I disagree strongly with this. I do not want to see junk food actively promoted to youngsters, and I suggest there are only two bodies who do - those in the junk food supply chain, and the ECB. Sorry, I didn't mean you about the "high ground" - that's why I said "we".
What I mean is, as Sam Morshead wrote in the article linked upthread, there seems to be a tendency to bash everything associated with The Hundred.
After all, garish kits, poor website content, signing ageing overseas players - all familiar themes around the counties over the years, right? And so are we going to bash Surrey for being sponsored by the manufacturers of gas-guzzling, fume-emitting, town and city congesting metal killing machines?
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Post by Bazpan on Oct 14, 2019 22:37:08 GMT
Just filling in time really. (The devil finds work for information-starved Hundred observers). The MailOnline promised me that the full list of draft registrations would be released today. Nothing doing, frustratingly. While searching in vain for the list, I saw that Joe Root had been asked "What aspect of The Hundred most excites you?" by that master of the leading question: the shadowy, nameless Hundred inquisitor (who always reminds me of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall asking his dinner guests, one mouthful in, "Do you love it?").
Root replied that he was looking forward to "working out how to best break down this game and get results consistently". If there's anything more exciting than aiming for consistency, I've yet to hear of it. (To the extent that consistency is ever going to be a realistic aim when you'll only be playing a couple of games at most). Anyway the question seemed quite a familiar one, so I just did an edited round-up of Hundred coaches' responses to questions about their excitement levels.
Simon Katich
First coach in The Hundred. Excited?
"Something new is always exciting"
Danni Wyatt
The Hundred. How excited are you?
"when I heard about The Hundred I was really excited"
Salliann Briggs
Ready for The Hundred?
"I’m really excited about it."
Are you excited about the timeout?
"I think the timeout is going to be a good thing."
Stephen Fleming
Excited to return to Trent Bridge?
"I am."
Charlotte Edwards
How excited are you to join The Hundred?
"I am really excited."
Danielle Hazell
How exciting is The Hundred?
"it’s exciting to see where The Hundred takes the women’s game"
Shane Warne
How excited are you to coach at Lord’s?
"I’m very proud and very honoured to be asked to be the head coach of the team"
Gary Kirsten
Thrilled to be coaching Welsh Fire in The Hundred?
"I think the curiosity of a new format is exciting."
Andrew McDonald
Joining Birmingham Phoenix for The Hundred. Feeling the buzz?
"It’s hugely exciting"
I'd have loved just one of them to reply "Not especially", but it was always going to be a big ask. Well it's just six days now until the televised draft. I must say I'm very much looking forward to it. Should definitely be a bit of a laugh. In keeping with the ECB's obsessive fetishising of the ton, teams will have 100 seconds to make each selection - which should ensure the kind of frantic, panicked decision-making that's rarely seen outside of Pointless.
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Post by flashblade on Oct 15, 2019 8:15:32 GMT
"Exciting" should be used more sparingly in the world of PR. Once it becomes the norm, they'll have to escalate to "Ecstatic", and then "Delirious"  |
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Post by longstop on Oct 15, 2019 13:14:23 GMT
"Exciting" should be used more sparingly in the world of PR. Once it becomes the norm, they'll have to escalate to "Ecstatic", and then "Delirious" I'm sure we could add an 'exciting' button and an 'ecstatic' button somewhere when the 'like' button is simply not good enough.  |
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Post by Bazpan on Oct 15, 2019 14:16:30 GMT
"Exciting" should be used more sparingly in the world of PR. Once it becomes the norm, they'll have to escalate to "Ecstatic", and then "Delirious"
Elsewhere in the wacky world of short-form cricket, why isn't there an England Legends team (or a Pakistan or New Zealand one come to that) in the Road Safety World Series scheduled for next February in Mumbai?
www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27849853/sachin-tendulkar-brian-lara-muttiah-muralitharan-set-feature-new-t20-tournament
Eurosport are also carrying the story on their website. Don't know if that means they might be showing it. Well it looks like fun anyway - relatively speaking - with people like Lara, Tendulkar, Muralitharan and Kallis already on board.
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Post by flashblade on Oct 15, 2019 20:01:41 GMT
"Exciting" should be used more sparingly in the world of PR. Once it becomes the norm, they'll have to escalate to "Ecstatic", and then "Delirious"
Elsewhere in the wacky world of short-form cricket, why isn't there an England Legends team (or a Pakistan or New Zealand one come to that) in the Road Safety World Series scheduled for next February in Mumbai?
www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27849853/sachin-tendulkar-brian-lara-muttiah-muralitharan-set-feature-new-t20-tournament
Eurosport are also carrying the story on their website. Don't know if that means they might be showing it. Well it looks like fun anyway - relatively speaking - with people like Lara, Tendulkar, Muralitharan and Kallis already on board.
Thankfully, each innings will consist of 20 overs of 6 balls each. So passé, don't you think? |
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Post by Bazpan on Oct 15, 2019 21:11:40 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see the more excitable Hundred coaches exhibiting symptoms similar to those associated with Stendhal Syndrome, where the sufferer is rendered incapable (panic attacks, delirium, fainting, etc.) in the presence of great beauty - be it natural or artistic or whatever. They could call it Hundred's Palsy.
Elsewhere in the wacky world of short-form cricket, why isn't there an England Legends team (or a Pakistan or New Zealand one come to that) in the Road Safety World Series scheduled for next February in Mumbai?
www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27849853/sachin-tendulkar-brian-lara-muttiah-muralitharan-set-feature-new-t20-tournament
Eurosport are also carrying the story on their website. Don't know if that means they might be showing it. Well it looks like fun anyway - relatively speaking - with people like Lara, Tendulkar, Muralitharan and Kallis already on board.
Thankfully, each innings will consist of 20 overs of 6 balls each. So passé, don't you think?
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Post by Bazpan on Oct 16, 2019 10:18:16 GMT
Here's the download link for the full list of draft registrations, successfully embargoed until a minute after midnight this morning.
www.ecb.co.uk/about-us/media-room#/documents/the-hundred-mens-player-draft-list-91019
Naively, I was expecting the list to be more revealing somehow in terms of inclusions and omissions, but at first glance it pretty much resembles a list of every cricketer in the world (550 of them, at any rate), including some highly optimistic registrations. It's hard to see, for example, Kent's Sussex-born Dutchman Fred Klaassen getting snapped up. Pretty sure we'll have access to his services for the 50-over development competition. It's unfair to single him out. There are dozens of county players in the list who really don't seem to have the right dynamic for the Hundred. Well I guess you don't get anywhere if you don't try. Among the overseas players, £100,000 must be pushing it a bit for Dwayne Bravo at this point. Although, by the by, it roughly tallies pro rata with the £10,000 Essex paid him to appear in a losing semi-final one T20 Finals Day. (He scored 10 and took 1-40, as I recall).
There are 16 Sussex players in the draft, and 19 Kent players. That gap will narrow once Mitch Claydon has finished transitioning into a Sussex player.
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Post by joe on Oct 16, 2019 12:46:37 GMT
Interesting to note that Delray Rawlins is the only Sussex player in the draft with a reserve price, £50,000. Not even Wright or Salt have reserve prices. He’s either got an enormous ego or a greedy agent!
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Post by Bazpan on Oct 16, 2019 13:36:35 GMT
Interesting to note that Delray Rawlins is the only Sussex player in the draft with a reserve price, £50,000. Not even Wright or Salt have reserve prices. He’s either got an enormous ego or a greedy agent! |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 16, 2019 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Oct 18, 2019 17:41:27 GMT
Gary Kirsten's entirely spontaneous tweet loses some credibility . .   |
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Post by coverpoint on Oct 20, 2019 20:28:00 GMT
11 Sussex players picked up Central Contract Archer Southern Brave £100K Bopara Birmingham Phoenix £100K Salt Manchester Originals £75K Jordan Southern Brave £60K Mills Southern Brave £50K Rawlins Southern Brave £50K Wiese Northern Supercharges £40K Garton Southern Brave £30K Briggs Welsh Fire £30K Evans Oval Invincibles £30K Wright Trent Rockets (last one selected)
I cannot see Garton, Briggs, Evans or Wright getting in the starting eleven.
Beer, Claydon, Finch, Robinson, Thomason and Van Zyl not selected. Beer will be disappointed that Waller was select ahead of him for Southern Brave. I suspect Waller's fielding probably tipped the balance.
The problem with the hundred is that we could be missing a whole team which effectively makes the fifty over competition a 2XI competition.
It leaves Sussex with an XI of:
Brown wk, c Beer Claydon Finch Haines Head
Robinson Sheffield Thomason Van Zyl Wells
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Post by nemmo on Oct 20, 2019 20:50:38 GMT
Our 50-over side could look interesting that's for sure!
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