Welsh cricket- garbage

[The Bloop]

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The Hundred is the product that the T20 Blast should be. The quality of the blast is diluted with too many players
in too many teams, more suited longer formats, whereas the Hundred has players specifically chosen for white ball cricket.
The biggest winner I think is the women's game. Biggest crowds, widest TV coverage and the tournament being on the same footing as the mens version, has been a fantastic boost for the game.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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Baffled what The Hundred offers The Blast doesn’t. Totally baffled. Give me The Blast and a team that actually means something to me than this Hundred nonsense.

What is The Blast and who plays in it?

[Pearcey3]

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The Hundred is the product that the T20 Blast should be. The quality of the blast is diluted with too many players
in too many teams, more suited longer formats, whereas the Hundred has players specifically chosen for white ball cricket.
The biggest winner I think is the women's game. Biggest crowds, widest TV coverage and the tournament being on the same footing as the mens version, has been a fantastic boost for the game.

The Blast could be the same product if it had the money and terrestrial tv coverage. Plus punters would be supporting their own county and not some plastic franchise.

[Pearcey3]

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What is The Blast and who plays in it?

It’s T20 and Glammy play in it every season along with the other 17 counties. It’s 20 overs a side so a very slightly longer format than The Hundred. All the authorities needed to do was end the restrictions on overseas players so that counties could bring in more star players. Then get the coverage on terrestrial tv and market it hard like The Hundred and you would have the same product and you would be supporting your own county. There was never a need for The Hundred.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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It’s T20 and Glammy play in it every season along with the other 17 counties. It’s 20 overs a side so a very slightly longer format than The Hundred. All the authorities needed to do was end the restrictions on overseas players so that counties could bring in more star players. Then get the coverage on terrestrial tv and market it hard like The Hundred and you would have the same product and you would be supporting your own county. There was never a need for The Hundred.

Ahh I didn't realise the T20 format had a name. :thumbup:

[Pearcey3]

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Ahh I didn't realise the T20 format had a name. :thumbup:

No worries. It hasn’t been marketed anywhere near hard enough.

[Optimistic Nick]

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It’s T20 and Glammy play in it every season along with the other 17 counties. It’s 20 overs a side so a very slightly longer format than The Hundred. All the authorities needed to do was end the restrictions on overseas players so that counties could bring in more star players. Then get the coverage on terrestrial tv and market it hard like The Hundred and you would have the same product and you would be supporting your own county. There was never a need for The Hundred.

I agree - but they didn't lift those restrictions and so the hundred is a better product. I say that as someone who hasn't been to a Glamorgan game in well over a decade. I go to t20/one day matches occasionally at the oval or lords but I am unashamedly an armchair cricket fan. I prefer the 20 over format because it just makes.more sense than the unnatural "decimal cricket" we see in the hundred, but the hundred is a purpose built slogfest and it's really good to watch.

[chrisp_1927]

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Welsh fire should have been the great entertainers really. Power packed batting lineup and a bowling attack that run up and bowl pies.

Unfortunately for the fire, the bowlers have played as expected and the batsman just haven't turned up. Phillips innings tonight was awful, like watching a completely different player to the one who smashed glamorgan all around bristol

[Elwood Blues]

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Absolutely loved watching glamorgan last few weeks. Great cricket.

Welsh fire are a shocking side, that bowling lineup is beyond a joke. Fletcher aside they are just rubbish.

Qais Ahmed is a good bowler as well. But two isn't enough. They would have had a much better chance if Pollard and Plunkett hadn't been injured and Richardson and Ngidi hadn't withdrawn.

[chrisp_1927]

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Qais Ahmed is a good bowler as well. But two isn't enough. They would have had a much better chance if Pollard and Plunkett hadn't been injured and Richardson and Ngidi hadn't withdrawn.

Starc aside I thought most of the bowlers they were linked with were pretty average . Would have been interested to see jhye Richardson mind, has the makings of a future star

[the other bob wilson]

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I'm quite enjoying the hundred. Fire are shit (and about to lose) but as a spectacle I quite like it. I like that it is on every night
Don't get me wrong- I'd watch any test cricket ahead of it- but I was expecting to hate it but I just don't. It's quite good

Exactly how I feel, but if today’s Glamorgan match clashed with a Welsh Fire game, I’d be watching us take on Yorkshire. I find myself supporting the Fire when they’re playing, but I’m definitely a fickle fan when it comes to the Hundred and I think they’ll have to do far, far better than they’ve done this summer to establish the sort of support Glamorgan get in terms of people who don’t get to games, but still say they’re Glamorgan fans.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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Welsh Fire have bu&&er all to do with Wales apart from the fact they played some games in C4rdf.

Glammy are now a very poor team in the counties setup and today's mess up v Yorks a clear example of losing a game they should have won. How they top this group is beyond me.