Like I say, we have had proper pace bowlers but they break. Olly Stone bowled like the wind for about two games before he was ruled out for a season and a half and then sold to Warks. We signed George Scrimshaw from Derbyshire last year and he lasted about a month before getting crocked. The only one who stayed reasonably fit was Richard Gleeson, who then went to Lancs and got injured there for a change.
Quite amazed that Keysey didn't insist that his best mate's nepo baby was drafted.
Yes, further proof that it's just a rubbish tournament. A closed shop of averageness.
IPL has English cricket firmly by the balls.
Yeah, I saw that mentioned by Pak Passion. I will still go to the Blast, but I'll give the crisp packet tournament a swerve.
Ha! this should make us favourites for the one day cup, But we all know it will not work out that way
A high proportion of people who go to the hundred and blast are casual spectators who do not especially know or care who the individual players are or the background to the tournaments. Music, fireworks and a healthy ration of sixes and they are happy with it as a background to a night out. It is somewhat of a curiosity that domestic cricket is underwritten by this audience. I suppose that horse racing is similar.
But I'm not sure it is underwritten by those that go to the games compared to the TV income and audience figures will count for relatively speaking, a far smaller amount of cash through the turnstiles. The big thing about these tournaments are that they are at a time when there is less Indian domestic/international cricket around and you get many millions of casual Indian TV spectators who are happy for ANY cricket fix. The Hundred - statistics & facts | Statista
Yeah aware of the general target audience but viewing figures have already dwindled for the competition.
View numbers are keep on going down
I accept that TV is a bigger revenue driver overall. I was replying more to the ‘vote with their feet’ reference. Spectators through the gate for T20 remain significant though for the smaller counties, hence the blast’s continuance.
I linked to an article at the end of my previous post that pointed out that attendances had gone down at the games. However, as I think we are both agreeing it is overseas/Indian audience that will probably keep it going for the shorter term because of the revenue that this brings in.
