• The Hundred

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:57 pm**

Given there is little else on tonight I thought I’d at least give it a go.

It’s a bit exhibition match meets pre season friendly isn’t it,

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:00 pm**

i like it.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:04 pm**

It's a happy clappy razzamatazz slog festival but if it gets kids interested in playing cricket fair do's, they can start dreaming of playing for Yorkshire once they've grasped the game as a whole.

Not everyone's cup of tea, I know dandeclaret and jdrobbo are massive franchise cricket fans and I can also understand why the purists will cock a snook at this format.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:04 pm**

Not a fan if it personally. Enough competitions with existing counties they could have revamped.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:05 pm**

Tried watching it last summer but just couldn't get into it at all.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:10 pm**

Not for me. This obsession with short form sports is annoying to me. 7s rugby and now 3x3 basketball.
T20 is an entertainment more than a sport for me but I do enjoy that. This just takes it from 120 deliveries down to 100, pointless money making exercise. Also can’t get used to county players at strange sides.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:11 pm**

I've found that the only people in my age group ( i.e. getting on a bit ) who like the Hundred are those who don't have Sky TV, because this is the only cricket they can watch live on the box.
If it brings new fans to the game, great, but I am genuinely concerned about the long term effect it will have on County and Test cricket

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:14 pm**

If you want to get kids and those who want "bish, bosh, bash" and razzmatazz and can't concentrate on proper cricket for more than 5 minutes to watch then we've already got 20/twenty which tbh can be really good, so personally I don't see the point of this. But then again, maybe it's me age!

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:15 pm**

You wouldn’t want to have paid to watch the non-cricket on display tonight!

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:28 pm**

It’s a load of unnecessary claptrap. lancs players are elsewhere and I have no affinity with Manchester. Players are dropping out due to the excess amount of slogging that prevails now. It needs binning, quick.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:30 pm**

I enjoy t20, enjoy 50 over cricket, love test cricket - but I really find this hard to get into. Saw the start of it tonight but wasn't at all bothered I had something else on from 7:45.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:39 pm**

My biggest problem is they've completely torn up the county format, T20 works because they incorporated the existing counties into the new format.

With this Hundred nonsense I couldn't even tell you the teams, let alone who's playing for them.

I'm glad Bairstow for one has decided to put his feet up and rest for the upcoming test series.

I understand they're trying to market cricket to a younger audience, and the FTA coverage has to be welcomed, but I won't be tubing in, now if the BBC were showing a test match, or even an ODI, that might well be different, but this manufactured panto no thanks.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:40 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:30 pm
I enjoy t20, enjoy 50 over cricket, love test cricket - but I really find this hard to get into. Saw the start of it tonight but wasn't at all bothered I had something else on from 7:45.

Not for me either along with Liv golf .

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:44 pm**

It's not for me. We have the T20 blast which is more than adequate for the short version of the game. It's purely a cash cow. There is also the worry for the county game....maybe not just now but if it grows. We are slowly turning cricketers into how the footballers are...purely money driven.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:53 pm**

Im another who doesn't see the point of this format when there is already the T20 Blast which is great and would benefit from more publicity. Tonight's game was a poor advert anyway sadly...a complete walkover .

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:02 pm**

Cricket in every other format is brilliant, but this is just garbage.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:31 pm**

I think the worst part of it is the sky pundits who commentate normally suddenly sound like they’re about to jizz their pants when talking about the hundred.

Obviously they’re instructed to sound more excited but it’s awful to watch/listen to

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:19 pm**

The enemy of Cricket - the ECB have thrown everything behind this farce and the associated branding. For example at Southampton they have to change the branding of the beer - despite it being the same beer - because it doesn’t match the Hundred brand and the Hilton hotel sign has to be taken down for each game. Just an excuse in generating money and moving the County game towards the exit.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:43 am**

I hope every game is rained off including the final and the ECB make a loss, their attitude to every other format in this country and the schedule just so everyone they want to prostitute is available is poor

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:47 am**

BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:02 pm
Cricket in every other format is brilliant, but this is just garbage.

I was searching for the right words and they were there all the time!

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:28 am**

I am going to Trent Bridge on Saturday with the whole family including grandchildren. Pub near the ground before for Liverpool game .
Going on train from Lincoln.
Went last year and the atmosphere is great and it pulls the kids in more than T20 does.
I think it is here to stay as the crowds are big and revenue streams superb.
It is for some and not for others.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:36 am**

It's a massive vanity project.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:53 am**

Personally I have never been able to get into any format other than test cricket.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:57 am**

While personally I think it’s bluddy awful and a faceless emotionless franchise , the scheduling is also a mess. For those that don’t usually watch cricket it’s a fun family day out /trip where the result isn’t really of importance . As ever money wins and it’s proving very popular .

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:17 am**

Just sh1te really.

Imo, obviously.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:41 am**

No one has ever answered the question ... " What would make someone go to a " Hundred " game, who wouldn't go to a T20 ? "

The " Welsh Fire " played the " Southern Brave " last night, with the only Glamorgan player involved playing for the " Brave ". It's being hyped up by the BBC because they've been given some broadcasting rights, because they can't/won't pay for Test/ODI/T20 Cricket ! It's the total artificiality of the thing that grates with me ...

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:05 pm**

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:10 pm
Not for me. This obsession with short form sports is annoying to me. 7s rugby and now 3x3 basketball.
T20 is an entertainment more than a sport for me but I do enjoy that. This just takes it from 120 deliveries down to 100, pointless money making exercise. Also can’t get used to county players at strange sides.

T20 cricket is the highest skilled format, it requires physical skill. Test cricket is more of a mental test of the mind than a sport.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:16 pm**

People pretending the T20 Blast is great are kidding themselves, an after thought for top players, most don't turn up. It's like the Carabao Cup equivalent, a complete waste of time.

Cricket will never move forward until it completely scraps International test cricket. I know it sounds controversial but who cares about test cricket friendlies? Like how many times can you watch the same 4 teams play each other over and over again in meaningless matches?

Create a global Franchise league (like the IPL but worldwide not Indian owned) with all of the very best players drafted and traded amongst teams. Manchester United could buy a Franchise spot and create a team that plays it's home games in England, Peugeot could buy a spot and their team plays it's home games in France. etc

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:26 pm**

KRBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:16 pm
People pretending the T20 Blast is great are kidding themselves, an after thought for top players, most don't turn up. It's like the Carabao Cup equivalent, a complete waste of time.

Cricket will never move forward until it completely scraps International test cricket. I know it sounds controversial but who cares about test cricket friendlies? Like how many times can you watch the same 4 teams play each other over and over again in meaningless matches?

Create a global Franchise league (like the IPL but worldwide not Indian owned) with all of the very best players drafted and traded amongst teams. Manchester United could buy a Franchise spot and create a team that plays it's home games in England, Peugeot could buy a spot and their team plays it's home games in France. etc

Blame scheduling for the Blast not attracting the top players, if it was played at this point of the season, it would be even more successful. The fact that finals day was held in the middle of a IT20 series demonstrates the shambolic nature of it.

Secondly, I am a member of Lancashire County Cricket Club. I have no interest in supporting a franchise team as I have no attachment to it. I find it odd that folk have an overseas team they follow when they have no connection to the place.

The only good thing that has come out of the Hundred is the promotion of the women's game. This could have been as easily done with the Blast though.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:33 pm**

I support Lancashire in cricket. I am not going to support any Manchester team in any sport.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:35 pm**

ChrisG wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:26 pm
Blame scheduling for the Blast not attracting the top players, if it was played at this point of the season, it would be even more successful. The fact that finals day was held in the middle of a IT20 series demonstrates the shambolic nature of it.

Secondly, I am a member of Lancashire County Cricket Club. I have no interest in supporting a franchise team as I have no attachment to it. I find it odd that folk have an overseas team they follow when they have no connection to the place.

The only good thing that has come out of the Hundred is the promotion of the women's game. This could have been as easily done with the Blast though.

KRBFC is outlandish viewpoint shock.

I agree with Christ though, the blast could rival the Bih Bash and the IPL and attract the best players with better scheduling and access to the resources poured into the 100.

There are two really notable things about The 100.

Firstly, as yet, no other major cricketing nation has adopted it or appear to be showing any signs that they will? When T20 emerged in this country it spread through world cricket in no time.

The second point is that to my knowledge it’s not really caught on in league cricket. I can’t recall seeing any fixtures advertised this year and nor has anyone associated with running league and club cricket mentioned it in discussions. Again when T20 emerged it was adopted almost immediately.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:57 pm**

arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:35 pm
KRBFC is outlandish viewpoint shock.

I agree with Christ though, the blast could rival the Bih Bash and the IPL and attract the best players with better scheduling and access to the resources poured into the 100.

There are two really notable things about The 100.

Firstly, as yet, no other major cricketing nation has adopted it or appear to be showing any signs that they will? When T20 emerged in this country it spread through world cricket in no time.

The second point is that to my knowledge it’s not really caught on in league cricket. I can’t recall seeing any fixtures advertised this year and nor has anyone associated with running league and club cricket mentioned it in discussions. Again when T20 emerged it was adopted almost immediately.

The IPL is huge in India, why not merge The Blast, The IPL, Big Bash and all of the T20 competitions into 1 big huge global franchise league. Helps with scheduling, all money into 1 place, all fans watching 1 thing, all sponsors to 1 thing, all players to 1 thing. Pool it all together and produce an insane worldwide league, where players are desperate to play.

Scrap the Hundred. Scrap meaningless International tests. Like how many times do you wanna watch England play Australia/India/New Zealand/South Africa in test cricket? It's a rinse and repeat boring cycle, 5 teams consistently playing each other over and over and over again, competing for nothing, adding to the schedule and taking players away from could be great competition elsewhere.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:26 pm**

KRBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:16 pm
People pretending the T20 Blast is great are kidding themselves, an after thought for top players, most don't turn up. It's like the Carabao Cup equivalent, a complete waste of time.

Cricket will never move forward until it completely scraps International test cricket. I know it sounds controversial but who cares about test cricket friendlies? Like how many times can you watch the same 4 teams play each other over and over again in meaningless matches?

Create a global Franchise league (like the IPL but worldwide not Indian owned) with all of the very best players drafted and traded amongst teams. Manchester United could buy a Franchise spot and create a team that plays it's home games in England, Peugeot could buy a spot and their team plays it's home games in France. etc

There is a world test League table and final played between the top two sides. NZ won it last year, so to suggest any test is "meaningless" is wrong, bordering on the ignorant.

Then there's the series themselves - to call the Ashes meaningless is ridiculous.

It is viewed by many within cricket that T20 is actually the "meaningless" format of the game. Players can go out, play outrageous shots and if they get out doing so, there is little or no consequence.

Regarding a global franchise - how would that work? Home and away matches (travelling half way round the world for one match) or a coming together for an annual tournament? It would never replace the existing leagues as each country would never give up it's own league. So then you'd be trying to fit in more cricket to accommodate it. It's pie in the sky.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:02 pm**

TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:26 pm
There is a world test League table and final played between the top two sides. NZ won it last year, so to suggest any test is "meaningless" is wrong, bordering on the ignorant.

Then there's the series themselves - to call the Ashes meaningless is ridiculous.

It is viewed by many within cricket that T20 is actually the "meaningless" format of the game. Players can go out, play outrageous shots and if they get out doing so, there is little or no consequence.

Regarding a global franchise - how would that work? Home and away matches (travelling half way round the world for one match) or a coming together for an annual tournament? It would never replace the existing leagues as each country would never give up it's own league. So then you'd be trying to fit in more cricket to accommodate it. It's pie in the sky.

Travel the world for matches, 1 match a week per team, a league. Featuring only the best players, the biggest sponsors and the number 1 priority for players. There's only so many times you can see England play Australia in a test match. Introduce an American style draft window, allow teams to trade/buy players but some kind of limit/cap to retain competitiveness. A worldwide IPL, not just the Delhi Capitals but the Renault Parisians.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:04 pm**

KRBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:02 pm
Travel the world for matches, 1 match a week per team, a league. Featuring only the best players, the biggest sponsors and the number 1 priority for players. There's only so many times you can see England play Australia in a test match. Introduce an American style draft window, allow teams to trade/buy players but some kind of limit/cap to retain competitiveness. A worldwide IPL, not just the Delhi Capitals but the Renault Parisians.

The $6billion dollar IPL tv deal till 2027 writes this off instantly.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:19 pm**

Clarets4me wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:41 am

The " Welsh Fire " played the " Southern Brave " last night, with the only Glamorgan player involved playing for the " Brave ".

It's not just any Glamorgan player either, it's Michael hogan, one of the longest serving.
My only viewing of the one hundred was last year when I turned on part through and found Colin ingram batting against wales. I'm not having that.
There are no Welsh players in the Welsh fire team (men). There are two in the women's squad.
I still think that it is good for the women's game, but I have no interest in a men's team made up of a bunch of imported mercenaries.
That said, my favourite format is the 50-over game, and our players generally being unwanted for the 100 means that we have a chance in that competition for the second year running.
Played 2, won 2 thanks to a huge ingram performance v Kent yesterday.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:27 pm**

I'd like to see a comparison of the viewing figures from this dumbed down garbage and when the Ashes was live on BBC circa 2005?with Flintoff and the rest....

It wasn't this 5 minute w*nkfest either..to my memory nearly everyone I knew was engrossed in the whole thing....for half the summer.

Posted: **Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:48 pm**

Clarets4me wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:41 am
No one has ever answered the question ... " What would make someone go to a " Hundred " game, who wouldn't go to a T20 ? "

The " Welsh Fire " played the " Southern Brave " last night, with the only Glamorgan player involved playing for the " Brave ". It's being hyped up by the BBC because they've been given some broadcasting rights, because they can't/won't pay for Test/ODI/T20 Cricket ! It's the total artificiality of the thing that grates with me ...

Its targeted at kids and family's new to watching cricket. The T20 originally did this as when it first came in it was all fun and razzamatazz and no one took it too seriously.

T20 is now a serious competition so whilst its still great for younger people and families who have got the bug for live cricket it doesn't have that exhibition match party type atmosphere to pull in the new generation of kids and the family's brand new to the sport.

Whether it is needed or worth diluting the rest of the schedule is a different discussion altogether but in simple terms the hundred is what T20 cricket was 15 to 20 years ago and it is targeting new cricket fans who need things dumbing down a bit just like 20/20 was and did for the previous generation

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:22 am**

Cricket for dummies

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:36 pm**

KRBFC wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:05 pm
T20 cricket is the highest skilled format, it requires physical skill. Test cricket is more of a mental test of the mind than a sport.

Tends to belittle the efforts and achievements of Jimmy Anderson then. If T20 is the 'highest skilled format' then I presume 'the hundred' is close on its heels.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:50 pm**

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:36 pm
Tends to belittle the efforts and achievements of Jimmy Anderson then. If T20 is the 'highest skilled format' then I presume 'the hundred' is close on its heels.

What has Jimmy Anderson got to do with the price of cheese? and where did I say The Hundred was close to T20?

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:54 pm**

I love cricket and most sports, but only if I can support my team. National cricketwise that's Lancs and England. I have not watched and will never watch The Hundred.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:33 pm**

Of course you didn't. I did.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:45 pm**

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:33 pm
Of course you didn't. I did.

Then please don't quote me, putting words into my mouth and assuming.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:24 pm**

I really ought to apologise. My response was probably too profound for your singularly one dimensional view on this topic. Just to add but I never mentioned anything about the price of cheese but there you go. Have a good one.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:40 pm**

Wow
T20 the highest skilled format of cricket ?
The first (and probably last) time I have ever heard that.
Spoken like a true non cricket fan.

And yes if that is your opinion then of course The Hundred would follow close behind…..because The Hundred nonsense slog fest shitshow is very much a failed re branding of T20.

I was at a test match a 3 or 4 years ago in a box when Darren Gough and Dominic Cork came into the box to do a Q & A about The Hundred and it’s launch. They there both there to promote it. Somebody asked the obvious question as to why it was needed when the game already had T20…….not surprisingly they did not have any real answer to this. Neither did they have any answers to a question as to whether they thought it would further dilute Test cricket which they both made their careers from.

Only positive thing about it seems to be that it’s on terrestrial TV and gives access to the many people who love cricket but do not have Sky.

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:51 pm**

A little more objectivity. There is hope still.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:16 am**

Watched a short bit of tonights game.
Would be interested to know what drugs the commentators were on.
Not because I want to try them, because I want to avoid them.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2022 8:24 am**

T20 has enhanced the skills on show in the game of cricket but it suggests it’s the highest skilled format is nonsense.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2022 8:39 am**

Big Vinny K wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:40 pm
Wow
T20 the highest skilled format of cricket ?
The first (and probably last) time I have ever heard that.
Spoken like a true non cricket fan.

And yes if that is your opinion then of course The Hundred would follow close behind…..because The Hundred nonsense slog fest shitshow is very much a failed re branding of T20.

I was at a test match a 3 or 4 years ago in a box when Darren Gough and Dominic Cork came into the box to do a Q & A about The Hundred and it’s launch. They there both there to promote it. Somebody asked the obvious question as to why it was needed when the game already had T20…….not surprisingly they did not have any real answer to this. Neither did they have any answers to a question as to whether they thought it would further dilute Test cricket which they both made their careers from.

Only positive thing about it seems to be that it’s on terrestrial TV and gives access to the many people who love cricket but do not have Sky.

I thought the reason behind it was they the ECB wanted a franchise league but the counties wouldn't give up the T20 competition so they came up with this gimmick instead.

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