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Tag: The Hundred

December 18, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred: Does a two-and-a-half minute break in a game of cricket actually constitute a ‘time-out’?

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November 1, 2019 County cricket

You can add to the English cricket season but you can never take away

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October 22, 2019 County cricket

Don’t know what to think about The Hundred? Why not take your lead from Steve Smith’s awkward polite smile?

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October 19, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred draft: Which team pissed its money away on overpriced stars?

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October 17, 2019 County cricket

Jesus Christ! Someone’s put some actual thought into an element of The Hundred

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October 9, 2019 County cricket

Will The Hundred be even a third as ludicrous as the film 300?

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October 3, 2019 County cricket

Crisps, slogans, gibberish: get to know all the new teams for The Hundred

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October 2, 2019 County cricket

Please will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred

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October 1, 2019 County cricket / Pakistan

Shahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time

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November 29, 2018 County cricket

Five-ball overs and changing ends a bit less often – rules confirmed for the ECB’s ‘New Competition’

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A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

  • Eoin Morgan to be Ireland Test captain?
  • How do you carry out long-term planning? (a Pietersen post)
  • Mehedi Hasan is no Murali
  • Ben Stokes Ashes situation entirely unchanged by latest “revelations”
  • Did you see… Chris Gayle break into a run?

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  • Play fewer matches
  • Keep the Ashes an 'event'
  • Play on good pitches
  • Why wickets, not runs, are what's important
  • Always play a spinner
  • What is bad light?
  • The second division of the County Championship doesn't count

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