Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
How can counties be described as a "welfare addicted organisation" when the are the very institutions that have, from the age of 10, coached and provided the infrastructure for those players in the Hundred? No side in the Hundred has a single age group side or a coaching set up.
Your assertion also neatly swerves what most cricketing people have maintained that the ECB should have done with the money that they piled into the Hundred i.e. re-vamped the Blast. There would have been no need to consign the 50 over game to become a second rate competition which, in turn, meant that we had a disastrous World Cup because none of our internationals play that form of the game. But then the likes of the outgoing ECB CEO wouldn't have got his £1.13m bonus.
If you think that these franchises are going to be content with four weeks then you are kidding yourself. Vikram Banerjee, managing director of The Hundred, said in February that expanding the competition in future was a "no-brainer". It's bad enough that they occupy the whole of August meaning that there are no CC matches but, more to the point, there are no Test matches and that includes the Ashes. The Blast is now down to 12 games and the CC will go that way too in terms of reduced games. Players like Bethell and Bashir will, as is happening right now, have no outlet to learn their game - Bethell has played one CC match this season and scored 32 runs. How is he meant to improve doing that given he has yet to hit a hundred in any form of the game?
So this isn't all about moralising. It's about protecting the integrity of the game as a whole in this country. Eventually that will be run by the owners of the IPL franchises and they will be dictating what they want. But we shouldn't feel sorry for the lad from Canterbury or that parents of that lad or lass who has to travel "hundreds" of miles on a Tuesday evening to train with the Mumbai Indian Invincibles. Of course they won't actually do that. They'll go and play another sport instead because that's what talented kids do and what those parents will opt to do because it's more manageable. And they will be lost to the game for ever. Equally, I hope have you never bemoaned the loss of one of our footballers, who has been with us for a decade, but who ends up going for peanuts to a Premier League Club without kicking a ball in anger in our first team? That is what will be happening more and more in cricket.
Finally, I'm pleased that you are enthralled by the Hundred and that you can't see any adverse affect on the game as a whole. But here's a suggestion, Why don't you celebrate that on the actual Hundred thread and discuss all the ups and downs of all those thrilling games. I've just checked and you might have one big problem there though. Despite the competition being almost half way through this season, the last comment was a year ago. Not one mention of any of this season's matches. Why is that? Equally, why don't the Mumbai Indian Invincibles have their own thread? There must be loads of people just itching to laud their side? Perhaps you could start one?
Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
How can counties be described as a "welfare addicted organisation" when the are the very institutions that have, from the age of 10, coached and provided the infrastructure for those players in the Hundred? No side in the Hundred has a single age group side or a coaching set up.
Your assertion also neatly swerves what most cricketing people have maintained that the ECB should have done with the money that they piled into the Hundred i.e. re-vamped the Blast. There would have been no need to consign the 50 over game to become a second rate competition which, in turn, meant that we had a disastrous World Cup because none of our internationals play that form of the game. But then the likes of the outgoing ECB CEO wouldn't have got his £1.13m bonus.
If you think that these franchises are going to be content with four weeks then you are kidding yourself. Vikram Banerjee, managing director of The Hundred, said in February that expanding the competition in future was a "no-brainer". It's bad enough that they occupy the whole of August meaning that there are no CC matches but, more to the point, there are no Test matches and that includes the Ashes. The Blast is now down to 12 games and the CC will go that way too in terms of reduced games. Players like Bethell and Bashir will, as is happening right now, have no outlet to learn their game - Bethell has played one CC match this season and scored 32 runs. How is he meant to improve doing that given he has yet to hit a hundred in any form of the game?
So this isn't all about moralising. It's about protecting the integrity of the game as a whole in this country. Eventually that will be run by the owners of the IPL franchises and they will be dictating what they want. But we shouldn't feel sorry for the lad from Canterbury or that parents of that lad or lass who has to travel "hundreds" of miles on a Tuesday evening to train with the Mumbai Indian Invincibles. Of course they won't actually do that. They'll go and play another sport instead because that's what talented kids do and what those parents will opt to do because it's more manageable. And they will be lost to the game for ever. Equally, I hope have you never bemoaned the loss of one of our footballers, who has been with us for a decade, but who ends up going for peanuts to a Premier League Club without kicking a ball in anger in our first team? That is what will be happening more and more in cricket.
Finally, I'm pleased that you are enthralled by the Hundred and that you can't see any adverse affect on the game as a whole. But here's a suggestion, Why don't you celebrate that on the actual Hundred thread and discuss all the ups and downs of all those thrilling games. I've just checked and you might have one big problem there though. Despite the competition being almost half way through this season, the last comment was a year ago. Not one mention of any of this season's matches. Why is that? Equally, why don't the Mumbai Indian Invincibles have their own thread? There must be loads of people just itching to laud their side? Perhaps you could start one?
But someone has already said it better than I ever could.
Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
Good to see the same bitterness towards the Hundred 4 years on, I hope you all wrote to the county board asking for the money to be sent back in protest
Why would they do that?
If you disagreed with a tax cut for higher earners would you ask your employer to take a bit extra out of your wages if you benefited from it?
True, like any welfare addicted organisation, you take what comes and park your moralising at the door
How can counties be described as a "welfare addicted organisation" when the are the very institutions that have, from the age of 10, coached and provided the infrastructure for those players in the Hundred? No side in the Hundred has a single age group side or a coaching set up.
Your assertion also neatly swerves what most cricketing people have maintained that the ECB should have done with the money that they piled into the Hundred i.e. re-vamped the Blast. There would have been no need to consign the 50 over game to become a second rate competition which, in turn, meant that we had a disastrous World Cup because none of our internationals play that form of the game. But then the likes of the outgoing ECB CEO wouldn't have got his £1.13m bonus.
If you think that these franchises are going to be content with four weeks then you are kidding yourself. Vikram Banerjee, managing director of The Hundred, said in February that expanding the competition in future was a "no-brainer". It's bad enough that they occupy the whole of August meaning that there are no CC matches but, more to the point, there are no Test matches and that includes the Ashes. The Blast is now down to 12 games and the CC will go that way too in terms of reduced games. Players like Bethell and Bashir will, as is happening right now, have no outlet to learn their game - Bethell has played one CC match this season and scored 32 runs. How is he meant to improve doing that given he has yet to hit a hundred in any form of the game?
So this isn't all about moralising. It's about protecting the integrity of the game as a whole in this country. Eventually that will be run by the owners of the IPL franchises and they will be dictating what they want. But we shouldn't feel sorry for the lad from Canterbury or that parents of that lad or lass who has to travel "hundreds" of miles on a Tuesday evening to train with the Mumbai Indian Invincibles. Of course they won't actually do that. They'll go and play another sport instead because that's what talented kids do and what those parents will opt to do because it's more manageable. And they will be lost to the game for ever. Equally, I hope have you never bemoaned the loss of one of our footballers, who has been with us for a decade, but who ends up going for peanuts to a Premier League Club without kicking a ball in anger in our first team? That is what will be happening more and more in cricket.
Finally, I'm pleased that you are enthralled by the Hundred and that you can't see any adverse affect on the game as a whole. But here's a suggestion, Why don't you celebrate that on the actual Hundred thread and discuss all the ups and downs of all those thrilling games. I've just checked and you might have one big problem there though. Despite the competition being almost half way through this season, the last comment was a year ago. Not one mention of any of this season's matches. Why is that? Equally, why don't the Mumbai Indian Invincibles have their own thread? There must be loads of people just itching to laud their side? Perhaps you could start one?
But someone has already said it better than I ever could.
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Your assertion also neatly swerves what most cricketing people have maintained that the ECB should have done with the money that they piled into the Hundred i.e. re-vamped the Blast. There would have been no need to consign the 50 over game to become a second rate competition which, in turn, meant that we had a disastrous World Cup because none of our internationals play that form of the game. But then the likes of the outgoing ECB CEO wouldn't have got his £1.13m bonus.
If you think that these franchises are going to be content with four weeks then you are kidding yourself. Vikram Banerjee, managing director of The Hundred, said in February that expanding the competition in future was a "no-brainer". It's bad enough that they occupy the whole of August meaning that there are no CC matches but, more to the point, there are no Test matches and that includes the Ashes. The Blast is now down to 12 games and the CC will go that way too in terms of reduced games. Players like Bethell and Bashir will, as is happening right now, have no outlet to learn their game - Bethell has played one CC match this season and scored 32 runs. How is he meant to improve doing that given he has yet to hit a hundred in any form of the game?
So this isn't all about moralising. It's about protecting the integrity of the game as a whole in this country. Eventually that will be run by the owners of the IPL franchises and they will be dictating what they want. But we shouldn't feel sorry for the lad from Canterbury or that parents of that lad or lass who has to travel "hundreds" of miles on a Tuesday evening to train with the Mumbai Indian Invincibles. Of course they won't actually do that. They'll go and play another sport instead because that's what talented kids do and what those parents will opt to do because it's more manageable. And they will be lost to the game for ever. Equally, I hope have you never bemoaned the loss of one of our footballers, who has been with us for a decade, but who ends up going for peanuts to a Premier League Club without kicking a ball in anger in our first team? That is what will be happening more and more in cricket.
Finally, I'm pleased that you are enthralled by the Hundred and that you can't see any adverse affect on the game as a whole. But here's a suggestion, Why don't you celebrate that on the actual Hundred thread and discuss all the ups and downs of all those thrilling games. I've just checked and you might have one big problem there though. Despite the competition being almost half way through this season, the last comment was a year ago. Not one mention of any of this season's matches. Why is that? Equally, why don't the Mumbai Indian Invincibles have their own thread? There must be loads of people just itching to laud their side? Perhaps you could start one?
But someone has already said it better than I ever could.