The amount of times I’ve heard about it today is laughable.
Rizwan plays an attacking shot - “He must’ve been watching the hundred!” Nope. He’s just an attacking batter.
We get it, you can’t criticise it and you are under probably contractual obligations to ram it down our throat. Can you not just shut the f*ck up about it when there is a literal Test match to commentate on?
I may be in a minority here but I fail to see how this thing is anything but negative and damaging to the English county game and by consequence, to the national team.
We have sacrificed the showpiece month of the summer for this made-up game that no other country plays, and with the new owners all coming in this year the ECB barely even runs the competition.
It is no coincidence that we have plummeted as an ODI side and continue to struggle as a Test side since the introduction of it, while we backheeled the Blast and 50 Over Cup, the two competitions in which the majority of the 2019 team were born in.
It genuinely breaks my heart that in a few years time we will probably have no Blast and the only regular chance i get to watch a local game at my county club (one of the number of counties the ECB don’t give a shit about), will be to watch some no-mark franchise club owned by an Indian oligarch, with players from all over the world that I have no attachment to.
Please tell me, am I alone in hating this thing? Is it because cricket is a half-arsed past time for the majority of match-goers and diehard cricket fans are few and far between?
Which is the good bit and which is the bad
This weekend both the England cricket team and football team play New Zealand. Although by the time the football kicks off the cricket won’t be playing live, it will still technically be going on. Don’t know if this has happened very often, even if you bring rugby in to it, and I found it mildly interesting