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100-ball cricket: New short-form competition confirmed by ECB
The England & Wales Cricket Board have confirmed that their new competition in 2020 will be 100 balls a side.
The format will be made up of ten 10-ball overs, which can be bowled by one or two bowlers, in clutches of either five or 10 consecutive balls.
Trialled at Trent Bridge in September, it has been introduced as part of a new ECB five-year strategy for the game.
"The strategy we have created will give the whole game clear priorities," said ECB chief executive Tom Harrison.
"The game has made huge progress this year, through collaboration, constructive debate and a volume of detailed discussion.
"The outcomes for all of this combined work are vital for the growth and sustainability of cricket, at all levels, in England and Wales."
The full strategy for 2020-24 will be unveiled in January 2019, and is expected to include a revamp of cricket at Minor Counties level.
The 100-ball format was proposed in April as a way to attract new audiences to the game, largely by ensuring it gets shown on terrestrial television - and is viewed by a wider, potentially new audience.
It has already been taken up at club level in the Midlands, where Warwickshire sides will take part in a competition as early as 2019.
The ECB Board have also agreed a new structure for the county competitions, which will see the County Championship feature a 10-team Division One from 2020.
Overseas players will also not be allowed to play in the One-Day Cup, which will run alongside the new competition.
PCA response to ECB strategy
Professional Cricketers' Association chief executive David Leatherdale says negotiations are still ongoing regarding the ECB's five-year strategy.
He said: "We contacted all players earlier this week to provide an update on the County Partnership Agreement and other areas of negotiation regarding the players' rights.
"From the start of negotiations, we outlined four non-negotiable principles in the domestic discussions with the ECB: the salary collar must rise, the salary cap must rise, the minimum wage must rise and every professional player, men and women, must benefit.
"We are negotiating on all of these areas and have made substantial progress across all, but not without challenge. Engagement with the ECB and counties has been positive to this point but there are still a number of significant areas to agree."
Deep frustration as so many of all ages who love Cricket. Has there ever been a Board governing any sport who so ignores it's fan base like this ? Of course the Board agreed with Graves, he is the head of the committee who appoints the main and other boards. It is like a Stalinist regime. What can we do ?
ReplyDeleteAdditionally of course those in the game from county boards, D of Cs, coaches, players, some journalists/commentators down to the tea ladies are not going to come out against this because of the gravy train it provides, be it for probably only a short while. ECB’s reserves draining away at an alarming rate into two money pits, this Hundred thing and unfortunately the Women’s game, neither of which are likely to ever show a profit and therefore replenish those reserves.
ReplyDeleteMoney in terms of the ECB reserves being lost at an alarming rate, and the ECB Finance Director is clear that the Hundred will naked losses in it's first 3 years and is unable to say when it will break even, let alone make money
DeleteFor naked, please read make, predictive text is the worst !
DeleteDon't worry Richard, I think you were right first time around. Let's hope they get caught with their pants down.
DeleteThanks and let's hope so !
DeleteHow can we protest ? Within the law yes, but how. Every person has the right to continue or not paying for Cricket as much or as little as they want, so a boycott not really on. All wear T shirts protesting ? All stand up behind the bowler's arm at all grounds for half an hour at a given time ? Is that legal ? Thoughts ?
ReplyDeleteRICHARD'S PETITION
ReplyDeleteEnglish domestic Cricket is having massive changes enforced on it. This is being done, not only without the consent of the regular county members and people who pay at the gate or watch on TV, but they are openly being told they are irrelevant to the future of Cricket because of age. The latter is not true as many are young and discriminates against those who are older.
The new format and domestic structure are due to come into force in the Summer of 2020. It relegates First Class, 50 over and T20 Cricket to fringe events played at less popular times of the year, and often not on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays. By weakening these formats it potentially damages the England international teams in these formats for the men's and womens' game.
The form of Cricket proposed to have the key dates, stadia and major financial promotion is The Hundred, with a new format that tears up the established format and laws of the sport of Cricket, is confusing, and has very little evidence of support in the public from cricket and non cricket fans.
The best course of action is for the ECB to hold a series of practical working meetings with county members and other supporters to discuss and improve the poor and reckless decisions made for the 2020 English and Welsh Summer and subsequent years.
Also that the ECB boards, including the Main Board of Directors should have representatives of Cricket Supporters, probably via the Cricket Supporters Association, on them.
That the sponsors of all domestic competitions , the players, the county and other clubs at all domestic levels and their supporters, who are the game's customers, in future become part of the decision making system to make Cricket democratic once more.
SIGN it on https://www.change.org/p/english-cricket-board-full-open-discussion-between-english-and-welsh-county-members-on-the-hundred
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