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Dunc2610
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Why the ECB didn't invest in the T20 Balst and make that a franchise comp like the IPL etc, and chose to sink that money in a format that is irrelevant around the world, I'll never know!
No Hundred means better quality of player in the one day cup!
No Hundred means better quality of player in the one day cup!
UncleBuck
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Key needs to start flexing his muscles here but having seen what they’ve done with the central contracts I doubt he will.
Dunc2610
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No, the three year contracts were a joke! Mark Wood? Fml, I'll be suprised if he's not perms crocked by next season! I had high hopes for him, and the changing of the test team guard seemed to show that, however, nothing else has!
LSUY
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Partly because the ECB didn't copyright T20 when it created the T20 Cup so India, Australia, etc. were free to use it. Everything about The Hundred belongs to the ECB, so if anyone else wants to play it, they'll have to pay the ECB to do so.
LSUY
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I'm surprised we haven't heard stories in the press about a fractured camp, problems with the facilities or something to explain what's happened. This isn't a gradual decline or a team with form for being wildly inconsistent but rather crap the bed as soon as the tournament started for seemingly no reason.
bradfordspur
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Hope the ECB haven’t planned an income stream. Talk about shutting the stable door when the horse has long gone!
Dunc2610
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They could still have made it a franchise comp, ploughed money in to that rather than add a fourth irrelevant format. There's already franchise T20 and T10 tournaments all around the world, including the US, whos going to want to buy rights to The Hundred?
UncleBuck
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No other country will play, why would they when they’d have to give royalties to the ECB and they’ve already got T20 franchises that work perfectly well.
The ECB thought they were being smart and saw a potential opportunity to make some cash but it’s blown up in their faces.
Absolute idiots, as you say the showpiece tournament should have been a regional T20 tournament after the T20 Blast which could have run alongside the back end of the County Championship.
Who knows, common sense might prevail at some point but I very much doubt it.
UncleBuck
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Great piece from Matt Henry which sums up everything
www.bbc.co.uk
'A mess from the start - now England's World Cup is over'
England's World Cup is over, and their tournament has been a mess from the very start, with numerous issues affecting their title defence.
www.bbc.co.uk
Timbo Tottenham
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I agree. I’ve enjoyed our white ball success, but I only ever get excited by a Test Match.
midoshairband
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Great piece from Matt Henry which sums up everything
'A mess from the start - now England's World Cup is over'
England's World Cup is over, and their tournament has been a mess from the very start, with numerous issues affecting their title defence.
Willey treated like a twat again. if i was him i would stick two fingers up at the ECB and walk away from England now.
when you read that article you can't quite comprehend how an organisation can err, well, organise so badly.
shambolic is the word.
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'Lord's all over again!' - Rizwan and the stumping that wasn't
Muhammad Rizwan evokes memories of Jonny Bairstow's controversial Ashes dismissal by stumping Aiden Markram from distance at the Cricket World Cup but opts not to appeal.
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Oi, Carey, Cummins............Are you watching you pair of dirty, horse strangling ****s
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First actually good match of the tournament today
midoshairband
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real shame we haven't bowled this well until it's too late.
