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Essex's Chair John Stephenson's words [click] - but he's not in favour of cutting the number of games, their "life-blood".
A word from Kent
Commenting after the publication of ECB’s High Performance Review led by Sir Andrew Strauss, Kent Cricket’s Chair, Simon Philip, said: “The Strauss Review is a wide-ranging and comprehensive document. However, it should be remembered that it has been prepared through the prism of High Performance only.
“The two key areas for our Club – domestic structure and scheduling – remain within the discretion of the 18 First Class Counties. Within this group, we will now consider issues such as the needs of all our Members, supporters, players and stakeholders, the financial impact, the unintended consequences and the possibly irrevocable change to the essential nature of County Cricket.
“Kent Cricket is a fundamental part of our community, committed to supporting the growth of the Men’s and Women’s game at all levels.
“We continue to deliver success on the field, produce players for England and support one of the largest recreational and schools cricket populations in the country.
“We will not allow our Club to be rendered irrelevant.”
A knock-out One day Cup in April; so what happens to half the teams when they lose in the first round, no cricket what so ever?
Strauss suggests knocked-out counties could play warm-up red ball games.
Only beer matches in August?
Friday night Blast means floodlights and increased energy bills...
Read george dobell
Jeff Moore shouldn't be voting for these Strauss proposals with OUR VOTE!
14 Championship games minimum Jeff, remember!
It's all secret, except it isn't, which means their propoganda is half way round the World, before we get our boots on.
ReplyDeleteGood Lord! What a day. Firstly we get hammered by an innings, the international fixtures completely underwhelming and then this.
ReplyDelete4 fewer games. So 8 days less home cricket in “red ball”. And 4 fewer t20 so another 2 days gone.
So I think that means a 30% reduction in cricket and therefore in membership prices!
3 main worries.
Delayed effect to 2024 not apparently mentioned. So could be next year.
The August gap is ridiculous. Space made for the Hundred.
Sidelining the t20’and the one day cup. We saw this year the effect of the former (our crowds were 50-60% of norm)
How does this help England get better at tests and defend the 50 over world championship?
JimG
Piss off Strauss, you don't know what you're on about, how can you have a top league of only 6 teams.
ReplyDeleteJeff Moore is very quiet
ReplyDeleteThere should be enough to get this one booted out, what’s their next trick, because there will be one? Those against still need to keep their boots on the throats of the county ceos , releasing only for them to vote no.foxy
ReplyDeleteThe £1.3M carrot has ended, they'll have a new bigger carrot to get the CEOs on board. Jeff and Lisa will love it!
ReplyDeleteJust when you think that things can't get worse the Strauss circus arrives. I trust that Notts announce our opposition soon. I'm still seething about losing my Trent Bridge August days.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Strauss&his mob so convinced this, awful, disastrous implementation will guarantee to raise the standard of 4 day cricket and produce better quality Test players?
ReplyDeleteWhy not keep it as it is with the odd minor tweak, possibly depending what that may be and instead make the Counties prepare better quality cricket pitches instead. Pitches that are designed to last 4 days and not the sort of lottery pitches where 20 wickets go down in a day. Our own club is one of these major culprits. These surfaces are a massive reason why better quality players are, apparently, not coming through.
If clubs, desperate for a home result, still don’t comply, then hit them with a massive fine, say £50,000 plus and take 50 points off them. They’ll only do it once.
As things stand, I just cannot believe 12 from 18 will vote for the recommendations. However as per the above, I wonder what ‘sweeteners’ are being lined up by the ECB to make any potential losses seem more attractive in order enough clubs are effectively ‘blackmailed’ to get this hiddeous proposal through from 2024 ?