The Women's Game: Kelly Caps it off with PCA Prize

 

11/12

Capless

PCA Business Futures  - read on Pravda

A free business grade laptop for 73 year old James Graham-Brown as one of the runners-up. Business Futures eh!

Can Marie diversify and produce a cap that will stay on Haseeb Hameed's head?

03/12

Pravda alliterates Craig Cumming new head coach of the Blaze

THE BLAZE'S FAILURE TO COMMIT

Pravda, Mr Newell, Mr Hunt and Ms Pursehouse all feel as supporters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club that we should all also support The Blaze and if we don't then we are some kind of misogynistic dinosaur.

As part of the Women's cricket restructuring and the demise of the regional structure in favour the tiered county structure that we now have from 2025, Nottinghamshire was granted Tier 1 status. All the regional franchises, except one, have been dissolved and have taken on new County identities of sorts, with that exception being The Blaze. The Blaze are based at Trent Bridge, except when they are not, as it suits Trent Bridge and Nottinghamshire not to commit fully to hosting Tier 1 women's matches for every home fixture. So The Blaze remains an East Midland regional representative franchise, playing within a new County structure. Leicestershire and Derbyshire both have their own Tier 2 women's county teams but will also host The Blaze home fixtures, sometimes as part of a double header day, as The Blaze also do with the Outlaws at Trent Bridge.  So The Blaze are not Nottinghamshire as they are as much Derbyshire and Leicestershire as well, so why should any Nottingham, Derby or Leicester based supporter show them any allegiance?  This is the parochial East Midlands, where rivalries are old and are important.

Pravda's website has fixtures for both The Blaze and for Nottinghamshire Women, the latter having a handful of home fixtures over the season at grounds other than Trent Bridge but within the county borders.

Do The Blaze have to play all of their one day schedule at first class venues?

Trent Bridge admits that it is unable to commit to The Blaze fully because of the limited number of wickets on the square at HQ, but can't wickets be found at other grounds around the county to host The Blaze? Why can't The Blaze fully commit to Nottinghamshire and adopt the Nottinghamshire name, it might be the start of giving potential supporters something to identify with?

Fans of Welbeck need to heed the words of Mr Newell, where Welbeck CC have their own list of priorities for their ground and County cricket comes below hosting wedding receptions in that list, sadly. Other clubs will have their own priorities too.

Clearly what Nottinghamshire Cricket needs is a real alternative first class venue to Trent Bridge that lies within the county, much as Lancashire now have with the Farington ground, which I believe they took possession of last week. Perhaps it would have been cheaper to develop an alternative venue than it will be to double up facilities in a new Trent Bridge pavilion, if and when that project gets off the ground. Three months lost / behind schedule already Mr Hunt!

21/11

52 Double Headers

Will Outlaws be playing in Wolverhampton Wanderers' colours in the future?

When is home, home?

When is double header not a double header?

When is 4, 6?

Yes I do know what Pravda means but the graphic is being used to sell memberships at Trent Bridge and highlight the connection (that may exist) between Nottinghamshire CCC and (location denied) The Blaze franchise, if it is a franchise to be bought and sold and farmed-out to any place that will have 'em.

How is the Trent Bridge pavilion project progressing BTW?

20/11

Kent Unhappy

19/11

Tier 1 sides taking part in the Women's County Vitality Blast T20 include Birmingham Bears, Lancashire Thunder and The Blaze.

Is it time to admit that the The Blaze rebrand was a tad premature and should now be redundant. The Tier 1 and for that matter Tiers 2 and 3 sides are all being hailed as COUNTY sides now by the ECB media machine.

Is it that the The Blaze are finding it difficult to adopt Nottinghamshire as a home or is the reverse true in spite of all the hot air blustered by the club's CEO?