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Crisps, slogans, gibberish: get to know all the new teams for The Hundred
2 minute readThey’ve told us some things about The Hundred teams! Specifically, they’ve told us which crisps are sponsoring each team and then they’ve also made up a bunch of stuff about each team’s ‘identity’ which we’ll all have to work very hard to commit to memory because it is not based
Continue readingPlease will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred
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Continue readingShahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time
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Continue readingFive-ball overs and changing ends a bit less often – rules confirmed for the ECB’s ‘New Competition’
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Continue readingHow about a nine-ball over? Would that be too much for a fast bowler?
2 minute readThe prospects of there being a fresh tactical dimension in The Hundred have been all but dashed after Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) chairman Daryl Mitchell said that no-one was really up for the 10-ball over because it seems kind of tiring. Speaking to The Mail, he said: “People who are
Continue readingThe Hundred is not going to be a big deal, people aren’t going to talk about it and it won’t attract a new audience
2 minute readAsk a stupid question, get a stupid answer. After that, build a whole stupid thing around the stupid answer and then pin all of your hopes for the survival of your sport on how well the stupid thing fares. The ECB are going to launch this 100-ball competition and they
Continue reading“The other 10 balls will add a fresh tactical dimension”
2 minute read Of all the very many sizeable questions that arise from the ECB’s plan to introduce a new 100-ball format to cricket, the biggest one is surely this: how did they decide who had to have the “fresh tactical dimension” quote attributed to them? To quickly bring you up to
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