ECB presents 100-ball domestic game for men and women

[andmark]

Balls, not overs,

Which ****s up the "run rate 6.85" bit as well.

 

[S.Kennedy]

It is a ''work in progress'' I believe.

 

[andmark]

It always will be I suspect. They can't get far when the cricket world is laughing at them for even thinking of the idea, let alone enforcing the idea.

 

[Jarquis]

Run rate is based off 5 balls

 

[S.Kennedy]

Apparently they were doing 10 ball overs called ''ends'' or some bollocks. In its final form they'll be a big count down from 100 on the scoreboard: ''100, 99, 98...''. The countdown will be juxtaposed with the runs.

 

[S.Kennedy]

There was this story a few days ago also,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45515806

Rather confirms that there is more than an element of sour grapes over allowing India to capitalise on the ECB's own twenty20 format I feel (their Victorian predecessors were more astute here, the MCC and the Laws of Cricket).

There is of course an assumption that anyone else would be inclined to nick the idea of the hundred!

 

[Borges]

What is all this trademark nonsense?
Will it prevent the Australian BCCI from creating a tournament with eleven nine ball overs and calling it the Stupendous Bash 99?

 

[sledger]

Who cares if there is a run rate or not?

The success or failure of this format is not going to come down to people saying "hmmm, I don't like this format because there is no run rate involved".

 

[ankitj]

If there is anything in cricket that I can hate more than IPL, it has to be this 100 ball ****-fest.

 

[fredfertang]

They've been trialling it for the last three days - apparently they've tried strategic timeouts, and batsmen not being able to cross when one is out, and other tinkering

 

[Daemon]

The run rate should be based on strike rate to make it easier.

RR of 140 means you score 140 off the 100 balls. Simple.

 

[andmark]

Who cares if there is a run rate or not?

The success or failure of this format is not going to come down to people saying "hmmm, I don't like this format because there is no run rate involved".

I don't think anyone's argued that. In any limited overs cricket match, run rate is going to be an important factor.

 

[S.Kennedy]

The idea I think is to simplify it as much as possible for ''mums and kids''. Run rates are over complicated clutter.

 

[andmark]

The "mums and kids" idea is interesting in theory. Given that those people outnumber cricket fans, an argument could be made that the ECB doesn't need pre-existing cricket fans for The Hundred to be successful. That said, most UK mothers have almost certainly been exposed to cricket, at least in passing, in the UK and so I'm unconvinced that simplifying things will get many new people into the game.

 

[Borges]

This Hundred is going to be a rip-roaring success when it does finally take off; and I'm its greatest supporter. I will laugh scornfully at all the doomsayers. Ha, ha, ha.

 

[S.Kennedy]

The "mums and kids" idea is interesting in theory. Given that those people outnumber cricket fans, an argument could be made that the ECB doesn't need pre-existing cricket fans for The Hundred to be successful. That said, most UK mothers have almost certainly been exposed to cricket, at least in passing, in the UK and so I'm unconvinced that simplifying things will get many new people into the game.

There is always going to be people who don't like cricket.

 

[andmark]

There is always going to be people who don't like cricket.

Indeed unfortunately.

 

[Daemon]

There is always going to be people who don't like cricket.

Coincidentally, 80% of the population are idiots

 

[ImpatientLime]

Coincidentally, 80% of the population are idiots

51.9% here

 

[S.Kennedy]

This was 100-ball cricket, divided up into 10 batches of 10. Play switched ends every 10 balls, and bowlers could deliver five balls in a row or 10, depending on the captain’s intuition. A bowler had a maximum 20 balls in an innings.

But… gone were mention of ‘overs’. The umpires, after asking the fielding captain, were calling “that’s five” or “that’s 10”.

It is more complicated than actual Twenty20!