English Domestic Season 2025

[Third_Man]

Blast starts 29th May.

Last Group round 18th July.

Finals day 13th September!!

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[Yeoman]

Surrey and Middlesex both at home on 5th June is unusual.

 

[Third_Man]

Lot of counties yet to announce their overseas players, seem to be waiting on the unsold list at the IPL.

 

[mackembhoy]

Surrey and Middlesex both at home on 5th June is unusual.

Weren't Middlesex mainly playing their home games at Chelmsford last season though?

Is it really the same issue as two local football sides both being at home.

If you add up the attendances of both teams, likely less than you'd get at one football ground let alone two.

 

[Third_Man]

Looks like Mark Chilton needs to get on the 'phone to Daryl Mitchell asap

 

[Third_Man]

missing from the start of the English season:
Jamie Overton, Reece Topley, Sam Curran, Will Jacks (Surrey)
Brydon Carse (Durham)
Jacob Bethell, Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)
Jofra Archer (Sussex)
Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Jos Buttler (Lancashire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
plus Northants had Matthew Breetze contracted for first eight Championship games and first half of T20 group stage so need to think again.

I see Sams has left Essex (where he played for 3 years) and gone to Nottinghamshire and so aligns himself with the franchise there.

 

[mackembhoy]

Blast starts 29th May.

Last Group round 18th July.

Finals day 13th September!!

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB

www.ecb.co.uk

They are just laughing at fans now. Hope they all choke on their IPL money.

 

[Yeoman]

Weren't Middlesex mainly playing their home games at Chelmsford last season though?

Is it really the same issue as two local football sides both being at home.

If you add up the attendances of both teams, likely less than you'd get at one football ground let alone two.

I was surprised in that there is a large floating and largely neutral post-work audience who would be happy to go to either ground. With two fixtures on the same day they will split this between them.

looks as if the Middlesex playing at Chelmsford experiment has been dropped.

On the fixtures more widely, nothing hugely exciting however good to see Arundel back on the rota.

 

[Yeoman]

missing from the start of the English season:
Jamie Overton, Reece Topley, Sam Curran, Will Jacks (Surrey)
Brydon Carse (Durham)
Jacob Bethell, Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)
Jofra Archer (Sussex)
Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Jos Buttler (Lancashire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
plus Northants had Matthew Breetze contracted for first eight Championship games and first half of T20 group stage so need to think again.

I see Sams has left Essex (where he played for 3 years) and gone to Nottinghamshire and so aligns himself with the franchise there.

While I don’t like the trend, not that many of those named would have played in the championship anyway. Brook and Carse - yes, and perhaps Curran, Jacks and Bethell, but not the others.

 

[tony p]

Going over to the UK next year.
Happy that Cheltenham has TWO championship matches from July 22-Aug 1st. (favourite ground) Watching 10 days cricket there.

Going to Radlett for the 1st time, anybody been there.? Been to Merchant Taylors previously. Going to stay at St Albans.
Matches against York & Kent in mid August.

 

[Yeoman]

Going over to the UK next year.
Happy that Cheltenham has TWO championship matches from July 22-Aug 1st. (favourite ground) Watching 10 days cricket there.

Going to Radlett for the 1st time, anybody been there.? Been to Merchant Taylors previously. Going to stay at St Albans.
Matches against York & Kent in mid August.

Only went to Radlett once, and that was in 2013 so possibly out of date. It is a not untypical outground - reasonably flat, boundaries of decent size, has some attractive trees beyond the boundary. When I went there were no temporary stands, so seating was unelevated plastic chairs. There was a good crowd in for the 40 over match I attended so best to get there early to get a good place. Catering was pretty basic - standard outground fare. The ground is in the edge of the town. I drove and parking was fine. It is though less than a mile from the station.

 

[mackembhoy]

I was surprised in that there is a large floating and largely neutral post-work audience who would be happy to go to either ground. With two fixtures on the same day they will split this between them.

looks as if the Middlesex playing at Chelmsford experiment has been dropped.

On the fixtures more widely, nothing hugely exciting however good to see Arundel back on the rota.

My bad that makes perfect sense!

 

[Third_Man]

Going over to the UK next year.
Happy that Cheltenham has TWO championship matches from July 22-Aug 1st. (favourite ground) Watching 10 days cricket there.

Going to Radlett for the 1st time, anybody been there.? Been to Merchant Taylors previously. Going to stay at St Albans.
Matches against York & Kent in mid August.

Been Radlett half a dozen plus times between 1999 and 2016 mainly to watch Lancashire 2nds play before moving back up North. It is a shortish or more walk from the mainline train station. Not sure where they would put up any raised seating but things may have changed.

 

[Third_Man]

Only went to Radlett once, and that was in 2013 so possibly out of date. It is a not untypical outground - reasonably flat, boundaries of decent size, has some attractive trees beyond the boundary. When I went there were no temporary stands, so seating was unelevated plastic chairs. There was a good crowd in for the 40 over match I attended so best to get there early to get a good place. Catering was pretty basic - standard outground fare. The ground is in the edge of the town. I drove and parking was fine. It is though less than a mile from the station.

agree with your assessment from my trips there, except it's a bit out of town but still walkable. However only ever saw more than a dozen present when Lancashire played Hertfordshire in the Nat West Trophy - those were the days.

 

[Third_Man]

Fixtures generally: Pretty similar and much as expected but no Sunday is designated as available for the National Counties to play a First Class county prior to the Metro Bank. That's a shame and a step back, imo, and although I wouldn't say it possibly an oversight by the NCCA but I guess their cricket committee have their reasons.

 

[Third_Man]

See Worcestershire don't have a home game until the end April (4th round)

 

[Third_Man]

ECB trying to crack down on No Objection Certificates (IPL exempt naturally) for tournaments that clash with the English domestic season against mutterings restraint of trade and threats of legal action. Unless the player has a white ball only contract with their county.

 

[Yeoman]

I welcome this as it should lead to greater team consistency. Players have been on 12 month contracts for some time to ward off the thread of ICL style unofficial leagues so I cannot see restraint of trade being an issue.

 

[CartyDurham]

It’s the USA t20 and Caribbean T20 iirc that have encroached on the Hundred

That’s the ecbs worry , their competition is mediocre and not the promised best v best

 

[Third_Man]

Are the ECB right to increase the top salary band of their favourite franchise by 60%, the 2nd salary band by 20% and all the other bands by just 3 to 5%? Snubbing players produced by the first class counties? Desperate to attract overseas stars? And apparently after telling the PCA something different!

Cricinfo reporting: The ECB was represented at a PCA summit in Paris in October by Vikram Banerjee and Rob Hillman, director of business operations and director of major events respectively, who briefed players on planned Hundred salary changes. Mitchell said: "Unfortunately, what was presented to the players and the subsequent conversations that followed has changed significantly."

Wonder what % they got themselves?