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English Domestic Season 2025

LangleyburyCCPlayer

LangleyburyCCPlayer

International Debutant
A shame to lose any games, but since the Hundred isn’t going anywhere, at least they are going to avoid the farcically long gap between the group stage and the finals and also be able to get more games on at the weekend
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

State Vice-Captain
If Yorkshire don't win this with the side they are currently putting out they will have bottled it somewhere along the line.

The cup is nowhere near a development competition:
- 3 test players, 3 over 30, just 3 players under the 24.
- Only one player less than 20 List A games.
Counties play 8 List A per year so that is:
- 1 player with almost 2 seasons' experience, 1 with 3 seasons and all the rest with minimum 4 seasons' List A experience.
- And an opening partnership worth a combined 243 List A games and both of who are Test cricketers.

I guess the likes of Luxton, Wharton, Hill, Duke and Revis are too young for franchise cricket.
 
LangleyburyCCPlayer

LangleyburyCCPlayer

International Debutant
Third_Man said:
If Yorkshire don't win this with the side they are currently putting out they will have bottled it somewhere along the line.

The cup is nowhere near a development competition:
- 3 test players, 3 over 30, just 3 players under the 24.
- Only one player less than 20 List A games.
Counties play 8 List A per year so that is:
- 1 player with almost 2 seasons' experience, 1 with 3 seasons and all the rest with minimum 4 seasons' List A experience.
- And an opening partnership worth a combined 243 List A games and both of who are Test cricketers.

I guess the likes of Luxton, Wharton, Hill, Duke and Revis are too young for franchise cricket.
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It was ultimately pretty comfortable for Yorkshire, but I think under the circumstances, Lancs can be proud of their efforts today, there are some very green kids in that team
 
LangleyburyCCPlayer

LangleyburyCCPlayer

International Debutant
Noticed Arav Shetty only has a short-term deal with Lancs, if I were them I’d tie him down to a longer one already, he was spectacular against Somerset and generally pretty tidy I thought today, also contributing with some useful runs late in the piece
 
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Third_Man

Third_Man

State Vice-Captain
Aidan11 said:
New T20 format for 2026

www.theguardian.com

T20 Blast to lose two matches per team in 2026 in latest domestic cricket reshuffle

The Finals Day will now be held before the Hundred starts in August, with the 18 first-class counties to be divided into three regional groups of six
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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So that effectively clears up 10 days in September for either the franchise cricket to over run or the championship to be played. More likely to be the latter either with the season ending earlier or with a round currently scheduled in June to be pushed back into September. Which in turn allows a more leisurely Blast, less fixtures and more calendar space.

On the face of it makes it easier to maintain 14 champioship rounds, otherwise the counties will be off for a mid season break in Dubai.
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

State Vice-Captain
HeathDavisSpeed said:
Charlie Bennett debuted for Essex against Notts in the first round. https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/charlie-bennett-1441886

Came through the Academy route: https://essexcricket.org.uk/2025/06/27/charlie-bennett-signs-rookie-deal-for-essex/
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Need to add to the List A debuts:
Dawkins (Kent) academy/age group rate route
Sylvester (Warwickshire) and Franco (Glamorgan) both National Counties experience
Bailey (Durham) neither: on loan prior to 3 year deal
 
LangleyburyCCPlayer

LangleyburyCCPlayer

International Debutant
Third_Man said:
So that effectively clears up 10 days in September for either the franchise cricket to over run or the championship to be played. More likely to be the latter either with the season ending earlier or with a round currently scheduled in June to be pushed back into September. Which in turn allows a more leisurely Blast, less fixtures and more calendar space.

On the face of it makes it easier to maintain 14 champioship rounds, otherwise the counties will be off for a mid season break in Dubai.
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You wonder why they announced the Blast restructuring but they didn’t say anything about the Champo, did the ECB not get the answer they wanted the first time around?
 
Third_Man

Third_Man

State Vice-Captain
LangleyburyCCPlayer said:
You wonder why they announced the Blast restructuring but they didn’t say anything about the Champo, did the ECB not get the answer they wanted the first time around?
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probably just that was all they could agree.
would seem bizarre to turn the franchise into T20:
June and July: Domestic T20 Blast
August: Domestic Franchise with substantially the same players but all shook up and distributed into different teams but with an extra overseas star (3 not 2). Potentially not even featuring the winners / finalists of the earlier competition.
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

State Captain
Just a quick question. Are there any blokes in this year's one day cup, who have fallen out of favour from the Franchise comp apart from Jake Lintott who was successful in the first year of that?
 
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