Hooked on 'The Hundred?'

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Noticed it was on BBC2 this afternoon, thought I'd check on what I was missing. The answer, for me, is not a lot! IMHO, if you like 20 Blast without the subtlety and non-descript team names, its probably for you. If cricket has to do this in order to save itself, is it worth saving??? Of course, just a very personal opinion!?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

This has been easily the weakest of the matches so far. Southern Braves looked a batter short and set a well below par total.
Tymal Mills has impressed though.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

I'm finding it very easy to find other things to do, and I'm happy with that. not bothered about it at all. bunch of franchise crap, anyone who isn't in a big city or watching on TV is irrelevant to them. Franchises are not the future in this country and need to be stopped

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

That was a cracking game. Went down to the last ball which Northern Superchargers couldn’t hit for 6.

A couple of things I’m enjoying: the balance between teams is producing consistently close games; the decimalisation of it, to my surprise, works and is much more intuitive than overs; having fewer teams and one game at a time is allowing me to follow the narrative arc much better - usually Chris Benjamin’s cameo would have been lost amongst another 7 games on or around the same time.

 

[ESG]

When it was cancelled last year I was actually delighted and disappointed when it reared its head again this season.

It's a bit like a car crash now and you can't help looking. With Chris Benjamin on Friday and last night's game was s cracker and I'm kind of on board now.

If the money and entertainment value like that keeps the real game going then we have to embrace it.

What was with Ben Stokes bleach blonde hair and ginger beard though!

 

[londonblue]

Noticed it was on BBC2 this afternoon, thought I'd check on what I was missing. The answer, for me, is not a lot! IMHO, if you like 20 Blast without the subtlety and non-descript team names, its probably for you. If cricket has to do this in order to save itself, is it worth saving??? Of course, just a very personal opinion!?

Cricket for morons, to quote a friend of mine. Although he said that about T20 when it started!

 

[rigsby]

With sport the result has to matter otherwise whats the point?......On that note i'll stick to beach volleyball thanks.

 

[blues exile]

Good to watch Essex v Middlesex in the One Day cup, 50 over competition the other day and to see Cook and Westley play some classic crickets shots far removed from the travesty of the Hundred.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Still early days for me, but positives are seeing youngsters in the ground and enjoying themselves.
Spinners are back which surprised me, so good to see the art of spin not dead yet in the game

 

[Swiss Tony]

Good to watch Essex v Middlesex in the One Day cup, 50 over competition the other day and to see Cook and Westley play some classic crickets shots far removed from the travesty of the Hundred.

What you said with bloody bells on,ffs leave our wonderful game alone you greedy bar stewards.

 

[Ricky Otto]

I love the hundred, I was at the 1st mans game at the oval and have tickets for the eliminator at the oval too. You look at the line ups and there are top quality players 1 to 11. A franchise tournament was needed to generate the kind of money needed to attract the top players and for us to have a top quality tournament like IPL or BBL. I was disappointed it wasn't a t20 tournament initially as I had a "if it aint broke" attitude to a new format and thought it was a bit gimmicky. If you take someone who doesn't know anything about cricket and they watch the hundred (my other half) it is simple to understand. If you follow Don Topley on twitter you'll see he is a big supporter and he speaks perfect sense IMO. All games at oval and lords are sold out now and the BBC games are bringing cricket to a wider audience. I don't think county cricket will suffer, cricket fans like me will still be interested and Chelmsford will still be sold out for every blast game. The hundred is bringing new blood into the game that can only be a good thing.

 

[Swiss Tony]

I love the hundred, I was at the 1st mans game at the oval and have tickets for the eliminator at the oval too. You look at the line ups and there are top quality players 1 to 11. A franchise tournament was needed to generate the kind of money needed to attract the top players and for us to have a top quality tournament like IPL or BBL. I was disappointed it wasn't a t20 tournament initially as I had a "if it aint broke" attitude to a new format and thought it was a bit gimmicky. If you take someone who doesn't know anything about cricket and they watch the hundred (my other half) it is simple to understand. If you follow Don Topley on twitter you'll see he is a big supporter and he speaks perfect sense IMO. All games at oval and lords are sold out now and the BBC games are bringing cricket to a wider audience. I don't think county cricket will suffer, cricket fans like me will still be interested and Chelmsford will still be sold out for every blast game. The hundred is bringing new blood into the game that can only be a good thing.

Don't see why we need to attract top players when our white ball teams are beating up the rest in spades anyway,it's the premiership of cricket money money money,no thanks.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Still early days for me, but positives are seeing youngsters in the ground and enjoying themselves.
Spinners are back which surprised me, so good to see the art of spin not dead yet in the game

Spinners have been back for a long time in the top t20 leagues. In the draft for the hundred the 1st players picked were spinners, the very 1st pick on the draft was Rashid Khan. Top class spinners are the 1st thought when building these teams it seems.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Don't see why we need to attract top players when our white ball teams are beating up the rest in spades anyway,it's the premiership of cricket money money money,no thanks.

Fair enough, it's your decision. Think you will miss some top entertainment though

 

[ESG]

Enjoyed last night's game as well with one exception, Kevin Pietersen on commentary

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Looking forward to Hales v Morgan tonight, although Hales nearly went second ball (a bump ball) and sixth ball (c&b chance dropped by Amir).

 

[Ricky Otto]

Looking forward to Hales v Morgan tonight, although Hales nearly went second ball (a bump ball) and sixth ball (c&b chance dropped by Amir).

I know it's a low score but think it'll be close, doesn't look a good batting surface

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I know it's a low score but think it'll be close, doesn't look a good batting surface

Was surprisingly close. The Hundred has done a great job of pitching closely matched sides producing tight finishes. When Cullen took 10 off 2 I really thought they were going to do it. In the end the final 5 deliveries of the Rockets' innings when Short hit 18 was decisive.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Was surprisingly close. The Hundred has done a great job of pitching closely matched sides producing tight finishes. When Cullen took 10 off 2 I really thought they were going to do it. In the end the final 5 deliveries of the Rockets' innings when Short hit 18 was decisive.

Yep totally agree. I said after 50 balls that 120 would be a good score, turns out I was right I put my money where my mouth was too

 

[GNH]

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