The Hundred could be scrapped

[Molehill]

Well we all thought The Hundred was daft, but this is even more absurd. The Hundred continues to do roughly what it was designed for, I doubt it has too much to worry about from this proposal.

 

[slowfinger]

If they increase the teams to 39 I might be able to make a push to get on the telly

 

[Third_Man]

Hard to know without being able to read the article but is this a genuine proposal or is this a case of wishful thinking by a journo who despises the Hundred and has latched onto a rumour?

Would be typical of English cricket if at the point the Hundred got established after all the disruption it caused they scrapped it.

I wonder how many people subscribe to The Cricketer? Strange that no-one else has picked it up somewhere.

 

[chris.hinton]

Shame we can't read the article

 

[Molehill]

I wonder how many people subscribe to The Cricketer? Strange that no-one else has picked it up somewhere.

Yep, a forum of cricket fans here and seemingly none of us with a subscription. It can't be that many.

 

[Yeoman]

I used to read it in the 90s however I thought that it went downhill after it merged with Wisden magazine (although they have since de-merged).

 

[Molehill]

I only really became aware of it when George Dobell went to write for them. I see him link to various articles but have never read any of them.

 

[Chin Music]

I only buy copies of the Cricketer intermittently. It is ok, but I don't think I would ever subscribe to them.

 

[mackembhoy]

Shame we can't read the article

Yep the paywall jumping sites don't work for the Cricketer.

I've got a bunch of physical copies lying around from 10+ year ago. My granddad got bought a subscription yet didn't even read them.

 

[Aidan11]

I had loads of Wisden magazines but a few years ago they got skipped as there was no longer any room for them.

In the Internet age there doesn't seem much point getting magazines anymore.

 

[Nas207]

If this story is true i'm putting it down as the idea of consultants with zero cricket knowledge or experience. I dont want to believe people running the ECB are that ignorant about their own sport.

English Cricket is a country game. It will never capture an urban audience as primary fans.

 

[Chin Music]

If this story is true i'm putting it down as the idea of consultants with zero cricket knowledge or experience. I dont want to believe people running the ECB are that ignorant about their own sport.

English Cricket is a country game. It will never capture an urban audience as primary fans.

I am not sure that I agree with you. There is plenty of support in the blast for the county sides in the big cities, although they may not necessarily identify as belonging to a county. From my own point of view, where I come from originally is part of the old county of Essex, however I would associate myself with the Essex team I would firmly say that I'm a Londoner. I also live just the other side of the old border, the River Lea. To say I was from Middlesex would be laughable though.

I don't know how Manchester folk see their modern day relationship with Lancashire. Then again, certain Mancunians would say that Old Trafford isn't in Manchester..............

 

[Ali TT]

If this story is true i'm putting it down as the idea of consultants with zero cricket knowledge or experience. I dont want to believe people running the ECB are that ignorant about their own sport.

English Cricket is a country game. It will never capture an urban audience as primary fans.

Guessing we should bring back Gentlemen v Players too

 

[Yeoman]

Guessing we should bring back Gentlemen v Players too

We could twist the concept so that it was Public School v State School. That contest would certainly have an edge in the current climate.

 

[Yeoman]

I am not sure that I agree with you. There is plenty of support in the blast for the county sides in the big cities, although they may not necessarily identify as belonging to a county. From my own point of view, where I come from originally is part of the old county of Essex, however I would associate myself with the Essex team I would firmly say that I'm a Londoner. I also live just the other side of the old border, the River Lea. To say I was from Middlesex would be laughable though.

I don't know how Manchester folk see their modern day relationship with Lancashire. Then again, certain Mancunians would say that Old Trafford isn't in Manchester..............

The trend this year has been for the geographical prefixes of the hundred team names to increasingly be dropped, so not really associating them with anywhere.

 

[Nas207]

I am not sure that I agree with you. There is plenty of support in the blast for the county sides in the big cities, although they may not necessarily identify as belonging to a county. From my own point of view, where I come from originally is part of the old county of Essex, however I would associate myself with the Essex team I would firmly say that I'm a Londoner. I also live just the other side of the old border, the River Lea. To say I was from Middlesex would be laughable though.

I don't know how Manchester folk see their modern day relationship with Lancashire. Then again, certain Mancunians would say that Old Trafford isn't in Manchester..............

Missing the point mate. The infrastructure for playing cricket is in the countryside hence people play it more there and not in the city. Its all about having the facilities. Where are the players for these 40 odd teams going to come from?

 

[Nas207]

The trend this year has been for the geographical prefixes of the hundred team names to increasingly be dropped, so not really associating them with anywhere.

Well yeah, this is just part of a wider cancerous trend of capitalism destroying culture in the name of greed.

 

[Nas207]

We could twist the concept so that it was Public School v State School. That contest would certainly have an edge in the current climate.

Sadly this would probably be less competitive than 50 years ago.

 

[Chin Music]

Missing the point mate. The infrastructure for playing cricket is in the countryside hence people play it more there and not in the city. Its all about having the facilities. Where are the players for these 40 odd teams going to come from?

There is plenty of cricket played in London during the summer. I know because I play it. The participation is hugely south Asian though. Much higher obviously than in the shires but the idea there isn’t a lot of cricket here in London is just plain wrong.

 

[Nas207]

There is plenty of cricket played in London during the summer. I know because I play it. The participation is hugely south Asian though. Much higher obviously than in the shires but the idea there isn’t a lot of cricket here in London is just plain wrong.

I also play cricket in London, cricket increases in level the further out of the city you travel. There's just barely anywhere to play in the inner city (at least seriously). Asians love cricket but are underepresented in the professional game (in terms of participation).

Interesting factoid, in my london based cricket club, i was the only white player who grew up in a city, aside from the Asians everyone else was from some village or whatever who moved to London for work.