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albion

Guru
Location
South Tyneside
That Trojan Horse, The Hundred is to become a hundred and twenty but will still be known as The Hundred !
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/a...t-the-hundred-twenty20-format-ecb-name-change
 

newts

Veteran
Location
Isca Dumnoniorum

newts

Veteran
Location
Isca Dumnoniorum
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AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
The most ridiculous thing about it is, from what I read yesterday, they're going to the T20 format but keeping The Hundred name...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/a...t-the-hundred-twenty20-format-ecb-name-change

Apologies to @albion, posted pretty much the same thing, just hadn't noticed it!
 

tom73

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
The most ridiculous thing about it is, from what I read yesterday, they're going to the T20 format but keeping The Hundred name...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/a...t-the-hundred-twenty20-format-ecb-name-change

The ECB look like hoping a more international popular format together with popular banding. Will mean the big money comes running , the penny has dropped that the 100 is an a bit of a dead duck to the big boys. Best thing now is spin the whole lot off and let it run in tandem not as part of the season. If it work's it work's if not then it will fizzle out one way or the other. It's time for ECB to let its card on the table. What it really want's, a strong county game and in turn a strong England. Or a quick buck mix of baseball meets cricket in Pyjamas.
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
Shame the Windies fell apart so dramatically, but as the commentary team said you only have to bowl them out for a low score once. Great test overall.

It was a bit of a capitulation, but Bashir bowled well and the wicket was notably harder to bat on, quite a few coming through with low bounce from the seamers. Also showed the value of Root & Brook's stand the previous day, we only scored just under 100 after Brook went and Root got about half of those.

a really good test though.
 
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