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100 ball cricket

ANTiLAG

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More or less an oval with the rope, closer to a square than a traditional football pitch.


You reckon? Looks more rectangular than oval or square to me.

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TheParraboy

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wtf

This has become reality and poms taking it seriously

Root talking out of his ass, what is 100 ball cricket gonna deliver that t20 cant?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27893831/hundred-help-england-bid-retain-world-cup-joe-root


Joe Root has insisted that the introduction of the Hundred will help England in their bid to retain the World Cup in 2023.

Some have suggested that the new competition will reduce England's competitiveness in ODI cricket as their leading white-ball players will no longer be available for the domestic 50-over tournament, which is scheduled at the same time as the Hundred.

But Root feels the benefits of exposing young English players to some of the best overseas players in the world will outweigh any such issues.

"By playing the Hundred, you're exposing our next generation of players to play against some of the best players in the world," Root told ESPNcricinfo. "Regardless of the format that will be more influential and have more of an impact.

"Look at the guys in the current white-ball team who have gone off to play in the IPL: they've come back better players for it. I feel the Hundred will have a similar impact on more English players. Not just the top end guys, but on the next group of players that are on the fringe of the international teams. And, on the back of it, they'll have more opportunity to play elsewhere, too.

"Of course it's important we look after our 50-over cricket and, long-term, don't let it slide off a cliff. But I don't think playing the Hundred will dilute our chances of winning the next World Cup."

Root also refutes the suggestion that the Hundred poses a threat to England's Test aspirations. While the window created for the competition means the Championship will be played disproportionately in the margins of the summer - a scenario which all too often leads to conditions providing copious assistance to the sort of seam bowlers who find little encouragement on the better surfaces generally encountered in Test cricket - England's Test captain feels the county groundsmen simply have to do a better job of creating high quality surfaces. County groundsmen, recovering from the longest season in history, could be forgiven for shaking their heads ruefully and wondering how they can be expected to produce good batting surfaces in the drizzle of early April.

"The key is making sure the wickets for Championship cricket are good," Root said. "Some of the wickets have not been good enough this season. We have to make sure we're producing wickets that allow guys to get in and make big scores.

"You want the next group of batters to know what's it's like to score big hundreds; to deal with scoreboard pressure; to bat for two days to stay in a game and earn a dull draw. And you also have to find a way to take wickets - to take 20 wickets - on flat ones.

"I'd like to see wickets improve. And that ultimately comes down to the counties. I know they're under huge pressure to win but, from a purely selfish point of view, I think it would be really good for English cricket if we saw better wickets next season."
 

Timbo

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This is so f**ken stupid.

Most of the counties are pretty unhappy about it too.
 

Eelectrica

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The more I think about it, the more I question whether or not a ball needs to be bowled at all. Introducing... Boundary Countback - The Game!

A game where the captains of each team lists their team. The number of boundaries hit by every player over the last 12 months in all forms of cricket, including backyard cricket is tallied up. The team who ends up with the most number of boundaries will be declared the winner!

In the unlikely event that the number of boundaries counted for each team ends up even the two captains will toss a coin... no... wait... A cricket bat! - tossing a coin is so 2017. The winner of the bat flip will get to decide whether they win or lose the game!

This will totally revolutionise the game.
 

edabomb

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There have been several studies done (I can't find the references) that are very confident that with the time saved in taking 40 deliveries off we'll manage to:

- send a human to Mars thirteen years earlier
- achieve Brexit within your grandchildrens life span
- solve the climate disaster and then find several hundred much more creative ways to destroy our planet faster
- approve a new stadium in Manly. Breaking dirt is still considered optimistic
- figure out a way not to decide 2 month long tournaments on the equivalent of a coin toss

Tbh international T20 is absolute dross. At least this format would save us all some time.
 

Tommy Smith

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How about a form of cricket called "the Chappell" where each team bowls one underarm delivery each.

At least it'd be over quicker than this Hundred shite.

Granted it'd end in a draw but meh, so did the 50 over CWC.
 

TheParraboy

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I wonder who is the first genius who is gonna come up with and promote 61 ball cricket

thats right, everyone bowls an over - except the keeper he bowls the last delivery

You could easily play 4 back to back games - what a feast of entertainment

You would stack your side full of Bisons , Nuggets, Rigs and Big shows...
 
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