LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Gloucestershire all out for 155
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English Domestic Season 2025
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LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Important ton for Ali Orr in a difficult innings for Hampshire
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Partnership broken, but Fuller has helped to give Hampshire some kind of platform to make a competitive total
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Flurry of wickets at the back end of the Hampshire innings, 250 out of the question now
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
229 for Hampshire, meanwhile Somerset started and got to 16 for no loss after 5 overs, any chance they get back on any time soon?
Third_Man
State Vice-Captain
whilst I can understand the concept of negotiation, the Counties and the ECB risk ending up with a something that nobody wants. Unless that is the idea for a year then next time around nobody could possibly be in favour of the status quo.
I guess it may well depend on the precise mandate that the 7 county clubs who offered a full choice to their members were authorised to do: Not to vote for a 12 match championship or authorised to vote for nothing less than the full 14 status quo.
Can't see how Lancashire can vote for a 13 match championship, as their CEO was on record to say that because no one else was in favour of playing the championship during August when the Franchise was in full swing, the only viable options were a 12 match championship and to offer or to imply that there was any other option would have been "insincere". His sincerity might be about to be tested.
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Off again at Taunton, Hampshire now on top at Radlett
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to play Hundred matches at a wider selection of venues? My "local" team is, I suppose, the Southern Brave. But they're based in Soton which leaves me (a) unable to watch and (b) entirely alienated. If there were a few matches at Hove in a season then we Sussex folk might have a bit more of a connection with them and with the competition as a whole.
Granted, I'm not their target audience because I'm not a gibbering idiot or a 4 year old.
Granted, I'm not their target audience because I'm not a gibbering idiot or a 4 year old.
Third_Man
State Vice-Captain
As it stands I would be surprised. Each franchise only plays 4 "home" games in each of the competitions some of which, I believe are double headers, so it is a very limited number of cricket days out which could be passed to other venues other than those used currently. Can't see Hampshire or the others give up on their host income stream.
mackembhoy
International Vice-Captain
Not a chance in hell basically
They could care less about actual cricket fans and spreading the game around the country.
Northern Superchargers supposedly my "local" team just 110 miles away!
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
With the Hundred now finished for 5 of the 8 franchises, will the following are available for their counties on Sunday?
Somerset: Smeed, Dickson, Gregory, Overton, Abell, Kohler-Cadmore, Meredith
Yorkshire: Chohan, Thompson, Bairstow
Hampshire: Howell, Wood, Currie, Baker, Vince, Albert, Cartwright (Dawson played today)
Depends on county policy. In previous years some counties have stuck with the players who played in the group phase.
On the debate around the scheduling of this competition, the crowd at Taunton was on the small side yesterday, especially considering that it was against Gloucestershire. The two day notice period must have played a role, though the weather forecast wasn’t great.
While the long gap between the group stage of the Blast and the knockout phase has been much criticised, I noted that Somerset had left a temporary stand up in anticipation of a big crowd next week.
Third_Man
State Vice-Captain
Fuller also played having been released back earlier.
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Somerset have pulled in great crowds this tournament, it must have been the short notice. Would be inclined to keep the team much the same if I were one of the semi-finalists, of course some of the Hundred players would barely have played List A cricket (I don’t think Will Smeed for example has ever played in the Metro Bank, the younger players who have been brought up on the Hundred would be much the same), plus the lack of Hundred players in this has given a platform for players who weren’t necessarily first choice, like young Thomas Rew. I do want to see Sonny Baker play for Hampshire though (he’s one of the main reasons I’ve been following the Hundred this season, and after all, if he’s in the ODI squad to play South Africa, it might be useful for him to get some 50 over cricket under his belt, he hasn’t played any for a long time)
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Yep, he was part of that partnership with Ali Orr which effectively won the game for Hampshire yesterday
LangleyburyCCPlayer
International Debutant
Somerset never looked like chasing down 276 against Worcestershire, Yorkshire looked on top until the rain came a second time, then Hampshire came back. Farewell sweet Metro Bank, see you again in 3 weeks’ time!