mad
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Remember watching Sam Hain reach his maiden ton at Wantage road. He was 90* overnight and took almost the whole first session to bring up his 100. Mousely and Bethell need something like that but the shape of the season is a disgrace with this big gash in the season now devoid of any proper cricket.
High noon is 3pm today apparently
Gallant effort everybody
County Championship cricket was good while it lasted and in spite of all the meddling last 40 years from my own personal perspective it was worth following
Hoorah for the abstainer. What they're saying is we're not really sure about all this so fuck off with your lets shrink cricket idea. And quite right
Third highest run chase by bears. Highest was this game number 23 of the season and second from last of 1983.
Result
Glamorgan vs Warwickshire,
Schweppes County Championship
GLA 389/5d & 24/0d
WAR forfeit & 417/2
Warwickshire won by 8 wickets
Read em and weep. Scroll down and look at that for a county championship schedule through the summer
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Glamorgan have an SGM 6.30 this evening. If you know any Glammy members and want to preserve any chance of seeing first class cricket at wonderful venues such as Colwyn Bay or Aberystwyth in the future tell em to get along
Kent have emailed their members stating that they will support the changes proposed to Vitality Blast but not to the Rothesay CC where they don't intend to vote in favour of any of the 4 changes proposed.
Good for Kent. Proper county cricket county.
So it's going to the wire. If Edgbaston head honchos are foolhardy enough to vote for nearly 20% reduced cricket for their Warwickshire members less than ten years after the previous 15% reduction and after many members donated their subs during the behind closed doors COVID season, then they should be challenged firmly about it
meashambear wrote:
mad wrote:
August 1993 the last time they beat us at Edgbaston? Phil Newport 7 wickets over whitsun bank holiday and Graeme Hick got Gladstone out stumped leaving them just 11 to win 4th innings
No disgrace losing to that Worcester side though, this one is cannon fodder.
Plus Warks minds were on the following weekend's Nat West Final against Sussex
August 1993 the last time they beat us at Edgbaston? Phil Newport 7 wickets over whitsun bank holiday and Graeme Hick got Gladstone out stumped leaving them just 11 to win 4th innings
Yes this current blocky structure lets bad coaches off the hook they should be under pressure to get a proper team ethic going to attack all formats.
Anyway best of luck collecting signatures. We got about 265 last time over the course of 2 CC matches Alan from Lancs helped out quite a bit. I think to hit 250 you're going to need to take the forms to Rugby School for a 50 over game or two
Cricket earned the nation’s attention that summer. There was no need to buy it, like now.
But in a week or so, a bright, expensive month-long distraction will be presented as a panacea.
Of course, it is the opposite.
The same leadership class that blew ‘2005’ have also created this car crash. And the institutional memory of that colossal cock up has helped to make this latest gamble so large it is ‘too big to fail’.
Whatever that means.
But I do know that failures in the leadership of English cricket rarely lead to a REAL change in the type of people in charge.
Until that happens, expect the game to create opportunities only for the few, not the many
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It's called having their cake and eat it.
Spurious complaints about switching formats so they came up with these blocks we've been saddled with for what seems an eternity now. Of course we had blocks when the original T20 cup was introduced in 2003 but it was a mercifully small block of matches and actually quite refreshing at that scale I wasn't totally averse to it. The Blast is such a chore for both players and cricket fans now.
So the players got their way with this (though I suspect they were being leaned on by the broadcaster, and the switching formats complaint was all just a ruse)
And now the players don't like the bed they've made for themselves. They've become intractable and are leading the county game to ruin - when the obvious solution is to play a bit of everything all through the summer.
Anyone go to Derby last night? Does the following sound accurate?
I am at Derby v Birmingham/ Warwickshire tonight for our golden money maker. There is less than a 1000 here.
The hospitality is full loads of 30 year old single men on a freebie getting drunk on 3 pints of carling..
It's horrific. This format is dead. It's done it's time.
Every county now losing money on this format.
So where do we take it???
Who cares or even knows about a 10 hour day 50 hing this ribbishover tournament??
Nobody can be bothered to spend 4 hours watching this dross.
The game is dead. It's failed. T20 was great 22 years ago quid to get in bit of hit and giggle.
Now well I am more content to watch staplegrove v Taunton deane tomorrow for free on you tube than have to suffer a load of drunken hipster virgins than watch this.
The sport is dead.
GerryShedd wrote:
To be fair, I don't think that OH-D is doing favours for his county bosses. As Chair of the PCA, he is expressing the views of his members, with which he may or may not agree.
But not representing them fully and with the requisite nuance that is required and that is a decision he's made for whatever reason
Players need to remember cricket is a game to be enjoyed when it is on. It is not about PB's it isn't golf or the 100 yards dash it is a tactical game best enjoyed when it is just played played played. All this fitness work in November they do and they can't manage 75 days (many of them just 3 hours duration) on the field in a six month span is ridiculous. I agree about the blast driving back overnight stuff maybe the groups need to be smaller and more localised no-one aside from Lancs or Yorkshire should be sent to Durham unless they're up there for a tour of the northern counties
I get all the arguments against 3-day cricket I really do. But 4 of them in June or July when the light holds until 8pm would be better than lopping off a couple of fixtures would it not?
What worries me most is games finish inside 2 days quite often or are all over as a contest by then. Nobody sets aside weeks in April to watch any of these games. Loads used to set aside weeks in June July and especially the school holidays to go away to watch county games at the seaside and all that has criminally been tossed away.
When they say 12 remember what this means is just 6 home games. 2 of these will be in quite often chilly and occasionally snowy April and 2 in September in fading light. One of the others will clash with a personal commitment leaving just one flipping home county championship game to look forward to in all likelihood and you have to pray a) the weather plays ball and b) the game survives as a contest beyond tea on day 2
Yeah it's a disgrace the county chiefs wheeling out the players to provide sob stories when what they really want is to clear the decks for June July and August so they can have wall to wall whackaball.
This'll be made up of 6 weeks of pre-hundred T20 stuff which will be kinda like where the domestic players get to be talent spotted and then 6 weeks of the hundred proper which will be mainly IPL circus show ponies and a few picks from the domestic game.
The new investors getting cold feet over the format and the fact it is only a month of the summer. They'll change the format that's the easy part. The clearing the decks of this annoying thing called proper cricket is what this sending the players out wailing is all about. Likes of OHD and Steven Croft at Lancashire likely being promised a few favours if they help to get this baby over the line and overlook the detrimental effect this'll have on county cricket more widely - overlook the nuance that some players would rather like more cricket to play especially proper cricket in summer months
Just let someone else play FFS Olly
As each sob story is trotted out one wonders why they don't have it written into their contracts as individual players that they'll only play a certain number of games in a certain timeframe. Then let the county clubs arrange salaries, fixtures and squads to cope with what players will or will not tolerate being able to put their bodies through. Squads are massive now, the loans system used like never before, rotation of playing squads is surely the answer as is unblocking the schedule so there is less travelling to do in mid season
Sean Jarvis CEO of Leicestershire said of today's meeting of county CEOs that there was a discussion but no vote. He expected the vote on the Blast to be held on Monday. The discussions on the county championship led him to believe that no reduction was where it was heading.
Reasonable and fair rather than outspoken
Perhaps plenty of counties feel like Somerset's chair
I sure hope they do for all of our sakes. It should not be up to the eternal failure counties to dictate what the shape of county cricket should be like going forwards
You say balanced my heart sank several times reading that propaganda puff piece
Why is there never any nuance with these broad brush PCA statements?
What they hate is back to back T20 games and overnight travel back from the far north for games at Edgbaston the next afternoon.
So why doesn't the PCA lobby for this to be got rid of and why doesn't it lobby for the championship to be left well alone. It is already cut as far back as it needs to be shoved to the nether regions of early spring and the middle of autumn. Can't the PCA see that a bit of everything in June July and August is better all round. Nobody wants to watch 3 T20 games in a week just look at the paltry crowds this year but you can't have players having 6 days off each week in the middle of summer either
You have to wonder how much OHD is being paid to peddle this nonsense and encourage hapless county CEOs to back the horseshit sandwich of a future schedule
There are plenty of players who don't think they have enough games scheduled and yet this is completely masked by the PCA statement.