I do struggle with the IPL; not just as a threat to cricket, but unless one is Indian, who cares which franchise teams is best at bashing the ball out of the ground to the point of tedium? I did watch our series away in Pakistan (was it) a while back; the 55" TV at friend's house where I was sitting their dog for a week tempted me, and I rather enjoyed it - the boy Harry was just sticking his neck over the parapet and taking on all comers, and it struck me that international T20 is different to the franchise variety, not so bish bash bosh and perhaps more skilled and not so frantic. Adil somewhat extraordinary at his 20/20 trade as well.
As for the Hundred. Cricket for people who can't count to 6. Really. Not to mention that the South West might as well not exist in Hundred terms. We are the forgotten part of the world that's for sure!
Spit. And shifting the Ashes a month earlier to accommodate this nonsense just what one now expects from the ECB.
Fine cricketer indeed and hugely underrated.
I do struggle with the IPL; not just as a threat to cricket, but unless one is Indian, who cares which franchise teams is best at bashing the ball out of the ground to the point of tedium? I did watch our series away in Pakistan (was it) a while back; the 55" TV at friend's house where I was sitting their dog for a week tempted me, and I rather enjoyed it - the boy Harry was just sticking his neck over the parapet and taking on all comers, and it struck me that international T20 is different to the franchise variety, not so bish bash bosh and perhaps more skilled and not so frantic. Adil somewhat extraordinary at his 20/20 trade as well.
As for the Hundred. Cricket for people who can't count to 6. Really. Not to mention that the South West might as well not exist in Hundred terms. We are the forgotten part of the world that's for sure!
Spit. And shifting the Ashes a month earlier to accommodate this nonsense just what one now expects from the ECB.
Well, quite. The calendar this summer is a disgrace.