The Hundred

[wasteyouryouth]

No Chris Gayle or Malinga

 

[Ed Smith]

Jofra's reaction to them picking Warner is the kind of bastardry I can get on board with

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I hope they paid these people milling around in the background cause I can't imagine anyone would want to stand around for three hours watching this on a Sunday night.

 

[Ed Smith]

You can tell Roy thinks this is a load of shite as well

 

[Bevab]

The production value on this selection show is much better than the crap served for the IPL. At least both of them share similarities in making extremely puzzling selections...

 

[wasteyouryouth]

The production value on this selection show is much better than the crap served for the IPL. At least both of them share similarities in making extremely puzzling selections...

It's terribly sterile and dull. But I don't know how you really spice up picking teams.

 

[Ed Smith]

It's terribly sterile and dull. But I don't know how you really spice up picking teams.

Could start by not having Rob Key anywhere near it

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Could start by not having Rob Key anywhere near it

They could line up all 570 players and have the coaches walk up to them with a cheque.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Genuinely interested to see who Birmingham go for as their final two overseas players. Probably don't need another seamer; maybe Imad Wasim or even Afridi.

 

[Villain]

So many big names in there will eventually get a lot of viewers and maybe new ones too. Quality of Cricket won't most probably be there but I'm fine with their effort to increase popularity of the sport. I feel ECB taking this huge step is due to England winning the WC or was it being planned way before? Nevertheless, even if it exposes new people to Cricket I'd be happy with them at least getting to know the basics at least but you won't get the people watching this watch a Test match.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

So many big names in there will eventually get a lot of viewers and maybe new ones too. Quality of Cricket won't most probably be there but I'm fine with their effort to increase popularity of the sport. I feel ECB taking this huge step is due to England winning the WC or was it being planned way before? Nevertheless, even if it exposes new people to Cricket I'd be happy with them at least getting to know the basics at least but you won't get the people watching this watch a Test match.

Big names won't get in new viewers, people not interested in cricket or sport generally won't know most of the England players let alone the overseas ones. Access to cricket might on free to air TV and cheap tickets might.

I don't see how this will survive without existing cricket fans which are, as far as I can tell, are largely uninterested or against it. Maybe the big names will win people round.

It just makes me sad that this money could have been done to bolster the T20 Blast.

 

[Ed Smith]

When did every spinner become a "mystery spinner"

 

[Villain]

Big names won't get in new viewers, people not interested in cricket or sport generally won't know most of the England players let alone the overseas ones. Access to cricket might on free to air TV and cheap tickets might.

By viewers I meant people already exposed to Cricket, some of my friends who are not so much into Cricket(the ones who love IPL) gained interest in this one all thanks to those names they put up. Agree with the free to air TV and cheap tickets part. It's not what true Cricket lovers(I can say that for me) want anyway but even if it gets few people in it I won't mind. But as I said previously you won't see this new crowd coming in sit for Test matches.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

When did every spinner become a "mystery spinner"

When Joe Root started bowling leg breaks.

 

[Willoughby63]

Manchester Originals could be in some trouble at the top of the order, I don’t see any powerplay batsman in there.