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He was being used by the club hierarchy and PCA disgracefully I'd suggest. Hope lesson's been learned and they don't wheel him out to try to put any sort of positive spin on the farcical 13 game nonsense scenario. This having to have mini pre-seasons in the middle of the summer just shows how farcical the stop-start chunked up schedule is these days. They should be motoring along at this stage of the season on 2 or 3 fronts not trying to fill fallow time with days at The Belfry or twiddling thumbs. The quarter finals of the T20 really should all be on one day which would make room for a resumption of the championship this Friday. Instead they have yet more fallow time to wade through. It's a football international break to cap the idiocy off too with no cricket to go and watch this weekend
According to an article in the Guardian, the PCA (DVB Darryl Mitchell who seems intent on killing his own county stone dead and our very own OHD et al...) are pissed off with the members of the counties they represent.
The PCA needs to get real and reduce the number of June July and August golf bookings they make.
Let us consider the prime argument they offer for a reduction in the cricketing schedule - i.e. Players workload.
The total number of days currently allocated to cricket is
CC 14x4=56
T2014x1=14
1D/H8x1=8
Grand total of 78 days but short form cricket lasts <4hrs and very few, if any, players will be involved in all games in all tournaments. Additionally very few, if any, players, will be actively involved throughout all 4 days of a CC game. The current cricket season is spread over 176 days.
That equates to a 3 day week, outdoors in generally pleasant conditions.
Mental and physical overload!!!?????? - tell that to the general workforce - either white or blue collar.
It's as hideous and fallacious an argument as Franchise cricket being the saviour of the game.
Hope the counties tell the ECB to feck right off. They should have the 2 extra games in August anyway given it's 2nd Xi fayre. Better if it was 2 Championship games mind and back to 2 divisions of nine and 16 games per county
Yet more garbage proposals from our very own chair mark McCafferty quoted by Will McPherson . Are moves afoot to unseat this buffoon before he does to cricket what his ilk has already done to rugby?
Yes indeed. No mean feat at Lancs they only need 100 signatures to trigger theirs. Good going getting 260+ and I hope it has an impact I know we don't want the rancour at Edgbaston that they seem to have up at Old Trafford for example but nor should members wishes be ridden roughshod over
The much-publicised review of the domestic playing structure continues to progress, with changes to the Vitality Blast due to come into effect in 2026, and a vote on the County Championship expected in the coming weeks.
The Club’s Board have taken time, since the review began, to form a view based on the interests of all stakeholders involved, from players and coaches, through to commercial partners and crucially, having consulted our Members and supporters.
In short, as suggested at recent Members’ Forums, Derbyshire County Cricket Club does not wish to see a reduction in the number of matches played by the Club across all formats.
The Board has always been concerned that reducing the amount of cricket played could, over time, severely impact attendance and overall interest in the sport.We have seen outstanding support so far this season, with Vitality Blast attendances up by 20 per cent, while Rothesay County Championship crowds have grown by 17 per cent. It has been extremely positive to see an increase in new spectators purchasing tickets or Memberships for the first time, alongside our ardent support.
The Board strongly believes that the fine balance between player welfare, the commercial impact of the domestic structure, as well as the needs of spectators, could be addressed by making adjustments to the schedule, as opposed to reducing the number of days of cricket.
While we are clear in our position, the game has chosen to reduce the number of T20 Blast matches, and we await further details on the final options for the County Championship. Whatever the outcome, the Board and the Club’s Executive Team will continue to work collaboratively with the game to maximise the potential and growth of domestic cricket across all formats.Derbyshire County Cricket Club Board of Directors
Good for Derbyshire not wanting to sell their members short unlike some
It looks spectacularly good on the livestream and far superior to the view of 20,000 empty seats at the concrete bowl Edgbaston
Yeah Hamza got a bad decision there. He's walked halfway down the track and we'll outside the line. On the scorecard half an hour ago it was showing caught behind
Andy wrote:
Just had a bit of a gander (slow day), we didn't reach the quarters of the T20 in 2011, we only won 4 out of 16 group games!
Yeah I can only recall the 2010 semi final. I've been to several championship games or individual days of games. Remember Adil Rashid on debut tearing through us, we were woeful in the field only thing we hit all game was when nick knight took out a pigeon with a stray throw. Haven't we played there fairly recently in a white ball game? Maybe COVID year?
Yes I think the following year Yorkshire had to switch their T20 QF to Scarbados due to Headingley being in use for a test. I was at the 2010 semi final up on the coach and a lift back then went on the coaches to the final aswell. 2 cracking performances from Warks and Bell looking very decent captain material in that season coming back from injury
Ought to be one of those 50 over games plus one proper county championship game at Rugby school but the stupid blocked up fixture schedule does not lend itself to such joys as that
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
Click here to view more @espncricinfo : https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/schweppes-county-championship-1983-468579/warwickshire-vs-glamorgan-470332/live-cricket-score
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