The Hundred

The Hundred is...

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Aislabie

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It's worth noting that in 2004, there was a format created that the ECB could have borrowed if they were hell-bent on a hundred-ball competition built around big hitting.

Pro Cricket in the USA played 20 five-ball overs per side. Instead of four overs per bowler, they allowed five - requiring only four bowlers in a team, creating space for an extra batsman. They also instituted a designated hitter rule, which allowed for one batsman to not be required to bowl or field and for one bowler/fielder not to be required to bat. This would suit a player like Chris Gayle down to the ground, and similarly a player like Matt Parkinson for the reverse reason.

It was still definitely cricket, but it allowed even a fairly mediocre player pool in the States to score at strike rates of between 150 and 180.

You could even add a couple of the Hundred's more sensible innovations and they wouldn't be out of place: things like the new batsman always facing the next ball after a wicket.

What would a Hundred side built according to these rules look like?

1. :wi: :bat: :os: Chris Gayle (DH)
2. :eng: :bat: :local: Ed Pollock
3. :eng: :bat: :local: Alex Hales
4. :eng: :bat: :local: Joe Root
5. :eng: :bat: :local: Dawid Malan
6. :eng: :bat: :local: Jack Taylor
7. :eng: :wk: :local: Tom Moores
8. :eng: :ar: :local: Lewis Gregory
9. :afg: :ar: :os: Rashid Khan
10. :sco: :bwl: :local: Mark Watt
11. :sri: :bwl: :os: Lahiru Kumara
XX. :eng: :bwl: :local: Harry Gurney

Suddenly, you get a format where it makes sense to pack a team with big hitters down to number seven or eight. With the right approach, it could even see a rejuvenation of proper specialist skills like wicket-keeping. The added value of top-class bowlers (suddenly Rashid Khan gets to bowl 25% of a team's deliveries) allows for them to be specialists too.

And it would still fundamentally be cricket.
 

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The Hundred is still happening.

After the pandemic and the Kolpakalypse they've been having a new draft (behind closed doors for some reason). They even managed to find one Welsh player for the Welsh team too.
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Would still have preferred that all the money spunked on The 100 had gone into giving the Blast an upgrade of some kind but it's hard to deny that the talent on offer is probably second only to the IPL (given the depth of talent of England's limited overs/T20 players).

I'm very much looking forward to Dom Sibley opening the batting. Surely he will have to otherwise he'll be getting £100k to sit on his arse. :lol

The women's sides have been updated too but they don't fancy graphics.

Newly signed: Sarah Glenn, Sophie Molineux, Annabel Sutherland

Previously announced: Katherine Brunt, Nat Sciver, Elyse Villani, Kathryn Bryce, Abbey Freeborn, Kathryn Bryce, Lucy Higham
Newly signed: Rachael Haynes, Mady Villiers

Previously announced: Fran Wilson, Georgia Adams, Tash Farrant, Megan Belt, Eva Gray, Marizanne Kapp, Rhianna Southby, Sarah Bryce, Alice Capsey, Jo Gardner, Dane van Niekerk
Newly signed: Sophia Dunkley

Retained: Maia Bouchier, Freya Kemp, Tara Norris, Carla Rudd, Paige Scholfield, Anya Shrubsole, Stafanie Taylor, Danni Wyatt, Lauren Bell, Sonia Odedra, Amelia Kerr, Fi Morris
Newly signed: Tammy Beaumont

Previously announced: Deandra Dottin, Naomi Dattani, Heather Knight (captain), Amara Carr, Aylish Cranstone, Danielle Gibson, Susie Rowe, Chloe Tryon, Freya Davies, Charlie Dean, Hannah Jones, Sophie Munro
Newly signed: Meg Lanning, Beth Mooney, Jess Jonassen, Bryony Smith

Previously announced: Katie George, Alex Griffiths, Georgia Hennessy, Lauren Filer, Sophie Luff, Natasha Wraith, Kirstie Gordon
Newly signed: Alyssa Healy, Nicola Carey, Alice Davidson-Richards

Previously announced: Hollie Armitage, Katie Levick, Lauren Winfield-Hill (captain), Helen Fenby, Bess Heath, Linsey Smith
Newly signed: Sophie Ecclestone

Previously announced: Kate Cross, Lizelle Lee, Mignon Du Preez, Alex Hartley, Alice Dyson, Emma Lamb, Cordelia Griffith, Danielle Collins, Georgie Boyce, Hannah Jones, Ellie Threlkeld, Natalie Brown
Newly signed: Georgia Elwiss

Previously announced: Sophie Devine (captain), Amy Jones, Ria Fackrell, Ashleigh Gardner, Marie Kelly, Evelyn Jones, Emily Arlott, Kirstie Gordon, Phoebe Franklin, Abtaha Maqsood, Thea Brookes, Gwen Davies, Issy Wong
 

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Even though I am not a fan of this change in vocabulary, I still feel like The Hundred will be a success. It's getting too much stick too early.

Yes, the cheap gimmicks are a little too much, but I would be interested in seeing what it can do. I like the innovation. Let's see how it pans out. Fingers crossed!
 

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Anything to rival the IPL, to rival T20 cricket, to rival the Indian administrators will have my support. ECB should patent this.

Time to make cricket again and perhaps this is the start.
 

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Anything to rival the IPL, to rival T20 cricket, to rival the Indian administrators will have my support. ECB should patent this.

Time to make cricket again and perhaps this is the start.
Going against India shouldn't promote idiocy on part of other Cricketing boards!!!!
 

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