The Hundred

[Daemon]

The format makes sense imo and I do think it would be (marginally) easier for a complete beginner with no knowledge of cricket to grasp compared to a T20.

The problem is with the objective of the tournament - if it's to attract such people and slowly get them into the other formats of the game as well, once they watch and start to understand the game, they're going to be doubly confused when we suddenly tell them oh in T20s/ODIs/Tests an over is six balls, you have to change ends after each over, you can't bowl two overs in a row etc.

If the objective is to attract people who would otherwise not watch cricket at all because it's so confusing, and for those people to then exclusively watch the hundred, it's not the worst idea. I don't think it will achieve this objective though.

 

[GIMH]

Is that much different from if you get hooked on a T20 then watch a Test though? Much smaller gap.

 

[andruid]

Will The Hundred ™ games count towards players' T20 stats?

It seems essentially an attempt to decimalise cricket, doesn't it? Even to the extent of allowing 50 seconds for a change of ends.

I mean, no one outside of the People's Republic of Brit uses minutes any more, do they?

In time, it will be 100 seconds the the minute, and 50 minutes to the hour

 

[tony p]

I was reading a match report on the Men's game and it said that it went overtime, surely not, wasn't the reason this comp was invented so that a match fitted into a certain time limit.

 

[chris.hinton]

This tournament isnt for me. Sure it might bring in a new crowd but its just Showbiz Cricket really

 

[Aritro]

Is there no other cricket on British terrestrial TV at all?

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Is there no other cricket on British terrestrial TV at all?

This summer BBC got the rights to two men's T20i games and two women's T20i games (in addition to the Hundred games they are showing).

Usually there aren't any live games on terrestrial at all.

 

[Aritro]

I thought they'd put that right a while ago, having realised that letting a decade or more pass without most people having any exposure to televised cricket was a mistake. My memory might be playing tricks on me.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

I thought they'd put that right a while ago, having realised that letting a decade or more pass without most people having any exposure to televised cricket was a mistake. My memory might be playing tricks on me.

Actually, I forgot that England's away series in India earlier this year was shown on Channel 4. That's the only time since the 2005 Ashes that there has been free-to-air live Test cricket in the UK.

The 2019 ODI WC final was shown on Channel 4 as well, which I think is the only other game in recent years which has been on terrestrial. (And that was a last minute arrangement after England won their semi final.)

 

[theegyptian]

Joburg born, Chris Benjamin list a debut on last Sunday, t20 yesterday, and hundred today. Quite a start to the career. Only signed a rookie contract with Warwickshire on July 1.

Pietersen remains terrible on commentary. Even worse than normal today.

 

[Howe_zat]

Got tickets to go see some of this at Edgbaston in a few weeks. I quite like the moniker 'phoenix men'.

 

[GIMH]

Thinking about going to watch my beloved Superchargers in Leeds next weekend

 

[tony p]

The BBC Sport website match report, you would think the ECB have invented the wheel with this format.
" Not only was there amazing batting & bowling, this was the night of great catches."

Well I'll be, I must have missed all the amazing batting , bowling & catches in T20 cricket history obviously.

They really are desperate for people to like it, shame they didn't put this effort into the Blast.

 

[Daemon]

The Blast is pretty successful isn't it? Gets decent crowds at least from what I've seen.

 

[Spark]

Yeah I don't even think this is necessarily fated to be awful. It's just that I don't see what it brings to the table that T20 - or even T10 - doesn't.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah why not play a 16 over game and be done with it that way? It is changing a lot and one of the best things about T20 when it was introduced was how simple it was compared to the rule change roulette that ODIs were becoming around then.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Double wicket cricket was better.

 

[GIMH]

My beloved Superchargers are up against it here

 

[grecian]

Kp is doing my head in.

 

[Jay London]

Is there no other cricket on British terrestrial TV at all?

Basically no - there have been a lot of games broadcast free on youtube though. The camera work is not perfect but the quality is improving. Audience levels seem very low and (where comments allowed) majority Indian.

On the 100 - why are the TV graphics based on 70s computer games? I like DK as a commentator. Surprised the English game can afford his salary?