| The Hundred 09:15 - Aug 17 with 639 views | woodbridge_blue |
There is a continual debate amongst cricket followers about he pros and cons of The Hundred, and I can see both sides of the argument.
Last night I had the privilege to be at The Oval to witness one of the greatest onslaught of hitting I have ever seen in such a short space of time.
Invincibles smashed the previous record by scoring 226 for 4 in a 100 balls, with Jordan Cox bludgeoning 86 in 29 balls.
In total there were 25 sixes in the match, another competition record.
Whatever the merits of the competition, 26,000 people were entertained as never before, lots and lots of youngsters, some enjoying their first taste of live cricket on a beautiful South London summer evening.
Seriously, what's not to like? |  | | |  |
| The Hundred on 09:32 - Aug 17 with 555 views | Steve_M |
What’s not to like? It’s dominance over every other form of cricket, that a magnificent Test series was squeezed in to the early Summer to leave August free (and the franchise-owners are now going to demand an even bigger window), that the T20 blast has been basically abandoned despite it itself providing plenty of the exciting cricket for the past two decade, they get ECB basically abandoned domestic one day cricket just as England won the World Cup. And as for the county championship…. |  |
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| The Hundred on 09:36 - Aug 17 with 513 views | bsw72 |
It’s just a mix of snobbery and change resistance as fundamentally it’s not that far from a T20 match in style of play.
What it does is slightly simplify the approach to draw in those who have grown up with the decimal system and maybe never played/watched the game to any gear extent previously.
Apart from that the underlying rules and concept of the match is no different to any other limited overs. The fact that the men and women both play in double header style is also fantastic. |  | | |
| The Hundred on 09:44 - Aug 17 with 486 views | BrandonsBlues |
I thoroughly enjoyed watching it on TV last night. Would loved to have been there. It is a shame we don't have representation closer to the East. I know the Oval represents Essex etc, but The Oval is not that close to Suffolk. | | | |
| The Hundred on 09:50 - Aug 17 with 455 views | bournemouthblue |
| The Hundred on 09:44 - Aug 17 by BrandonsBlues |
I thoroughly enjoyed watching it on TV last night. Would loved to have been there. It is a shame we don't have representation closer to the East. I know the Oval represents Essex etc, but The Oval is not that close to Suffolk. |
It's actually the Spirit that represents Essex not that you feel any real affinity to them
It's the East and the West which have been short changed particularly in that regard |  |
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| The Hundred on 09:51 - Aug 17 with 451 views | SWLondonBlue93 |
Personally I can't get into it at all, largely because I have no emotional investment in it, but I could say that about the vast majority of short-form cricket. The fact that it's on every night also has an impact, I don't feel compelled to watch it because none of it feels important. It's not for me but if others enjoy it, who am I to tell them that they are wrong? [Post edited 17 Aug 9:55]
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| The Hundred on 09:52 - Aug 17 with 454 views | Guthrum |
For me, it's a bit like a penalty shoot-out. Distilled excitement, but none of the finesse, development and see-sawing fortunes you get in the longer forms of the game. Bowlers so tied up with fielding restrictions they're reduced to trick balls and an excercise in sloggery for batsmen, everything having to be heaved for an attempted six.
A bit like punk did with rock music in the late '70s and early '80s, it (edit: including T20) has instilled a fresh energy into the older formats, those tricky balls and daring shots. It is a good thing for getting (particularly young) people interested in the modern era when so little time can be spared from all the online gibbering competing for their attention. Plus it has been the financial salvation of the game in some parts of the world where long-form cricket was dying a death.
There are both good and bad sides to it. I just don't really see why the ECB needed to reinvent T20, which already fulfilled most of the desired criteria (very short matches, spectacular hitting, razzamatazz) to create a format not directly compatible with what other places are doing. Other than it gave them new franchises to sell. [Post edited 17 Aug 9:53]
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| The Hundred on 09:54 - Aug 17 with 430 views | Zx1988 |
I see both sides of the argument, and I'm a fan.
It's fairly easy to see the longer-term plan here. The tournament so far has very much been a proof of concept for a short-format franchise league here in England, and the recent sales of shares in the sides has proved that the money men in the game have bought into it.
Once the current contract period ends (I think it's obliged to remain as The Hundred until 2029 or so?) I fully expect it to be converted into a standard T20 franchise league - BriT20 or suchlike.
In a way, being early adopters of T20 has somewhat worked to the disadvantage of the ECB. The format of The Blast may have worked at the time, but you'd never go anywhere near that sort of format if you were forming a new T20 competition today. | |
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| The Hundred on 09:56 - Aug 17 with 425 views | azuremerlangus |
Watched it last night - kicking myself I didn’t get organised and get some tickets for it.
Anyway, certainly a further evolvement from T20 - and its simplistic format and style appear to be geared for the U.S market perhaps? It reminded me of Baseball from the feel of the TV coverage.
I prefer test cricket TBH but there is nothing not to like in this format. |  |
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| The Hundred on 09:57 - Aug 17 with 422 views | Ryorry |
| The Hundred on 09:36 - Aug 17 by bsw72 |
It’s just a mix of snobbery and change resistance as fundamentally it’s not that far from a T20 match in style of play.
What it does is slightly simplify the approach to draw in those who have grown up with the decimal system and maybe never played/watched the game to any gear extent previously.
Apart from that the underlying rules and concept of the match is no different to any other limited overs. The fact that the men and women both play in double header style is also fantastic. |
That’s just wrong - the whole horrendous blaring noise of it - sorry, that’s apparently called ‘music’ by some - the garishness of the lighting, advertising and colours, like some sort of superficial USA parade, make it about as similar to cricket as NFL football is imho. In fact I actually find NFL a pleasanter and less unbearably grating watch. |  |
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| The Hundred on 10:10 - Aug 17 with 366 views | bsw72 |
| The Hundred on 09:57 - Aug 17 by Ryorry |
That’s just wrong - the whole horrendous blaring noise of it - sorry, that’s apparently called ‘music’ by some - the garishness of the lighting, advertising and colours, like some sort of superficial USA parade, make it about as similar to cricket as NFL football is imho. In fact I actually find NFL a pleasanter and less unbearably grating watch. |
The underlying rules are close to most limited overs you just don’t like the marketing and presentation.
I take it you haven’t been to an IPL match. Pretty similar.
Doesn’t make me wrong though, just a preference. | | | |
| The Hundred on 11:30 - Aug 17 with 203 views | Ryorry |
| The Hundred on 10:10 - Aug 17 by bsw72 |
The underlying rules are close to most limited overs you just don’t like the marketing and presentation.
I take it you haven’t been to an IPL match. Pretty similar.
Doesn’t make me wrong though, just a preference. |
“It’s just a mix of snobbery and change resistance as fundamentally it’s not that far from a T20 match in style of play.”
That’s what’s wrong. | |
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| The Hundred on 11:35 - Aug 17 with 186 views | itfc48 |
| The Hundred on 09:54 - Aug 17 by Zx1988 |
I see both sides of the argument, and I'm a fan.
It's fairly easy to see the longer-term plan here. The tournament so far has very much been a proof of concept for a short-format franchise league here in England, and the recent sales of shares in the sides has proved that the money men in the game have bought into it.
Once the current contract period ends (I think it's obliged to remain as The Hundred until 2029 or so?) I fully expect it to be converted into a standard T20 franchise league - BriT20 or suchlike.
In a way, being early adopters of T20 has somewhat worked to the disadvantage of the ECB. The format of The Blast may have worked at the time, but you'd never go anywhere near that sort of format if you were forming a new T20 competition today. |
There are rumours it could revert to a T20 as soon as next year if the broadcasters are on board. The new owners franchise owners very keen to scrap the format. | | | |
| The Hundred on 11:36 - Aug 17 with 176 views | Ryorry |
| The Hundred on 11:35 - Aug 17 by itfc48 |
There are rumours it could revert to a T20 as soon as next year if the broadcasters are on board. The new owners franchise owners very keen to scrap the format. |
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| The Hundred on 11:52 - Aug 17 with 127 views | Keno |
It's a cricketing cul de sac thats been squeezed into an already full calendar, hence the test match series get condensed and last test match of the summer is in early August
There is nothing with the 100 they couldn't have done with T20 that would have meant it would have linked in with the worldwide T20 competitions to give a truly global event.
and actually those are my thoughts, some bloke called Shane Warne said that before it started |  |
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