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[Dave Blue]

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I’m the same as you Pearcey, but I’ll have a look tonight to see if I’ve got wrong.

I see that most of the Welsh Fire home games are ‘sold out’. Is this due to the pitiful capacity numbers? I thought WG had mainly gone down the same road as England on sporting crowds? Baffling.

[the other bob wilson]

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I see that most of the Welsh Fire home games are ‘sold out’. Is this due to the pitiful capacity numbers? I thought WG had mainly gone down the same road as England on sporting crowds? Baffling.

Think it’s a capacity of 2000 which I’m guessing would be thought a poor crowd pre Covid.

Some Glamorgan news, Dan Dowthwaite will be playing for the Manchester based team in the Hundred.

[Pearcey3]

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The Royal London Cup is going to become a part reserves team competition this season because of the Hundred

[the other bob wilson]

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Ended up watching the whole of the first Hundred game and, first and foremost, it was a very good game of cricket which, for much of the time, was of a high standard with the Manchester wicketkeeper proving as accomplished as Sarah Taylor (that's a big compliment!) and better than many in the men's game - Glenn Phillips, who'll be playing for Welsh Fire in the Hundred, has, rightly, been lauded for his batting displays for Gloucestershire, but he was pretty hopeless as a stumper in their televised game with Somerset this week.

It's strange that the women's game can produce superb wicket keepers and yet the standard of catching falls so far below the men's game. It's hard to see why this should be, because strength isn't much of a factor in that department of the game, but last night's match was decided by Manchester dropping three pretty straightforward catches and it was hardly unique to this one game - I've seen some right dolly catches go down in previous women's matches I've watched.

As for the format, I didn't notice it much because it was a watchable match that I quite got into, but, thinking about it, it didn't seem too much different to a T20 game and I'm left thinking that I can't see why someone who wasn't converted to cricket by T20, will be by the Hundred..

[the other bob wilson]

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If anyone wants to watch Glamorgan playing one day cricket after recent performances, you can view a stream of today's game with Warwickshire here;-

https://glamorgancricket.com/glamorgan-warwickshire-220721/live-stream

[blue lewj]

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It is on Youtube too

https://youtu.be/8d8O5eD7oQQ

[Seabird]

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Any masochists about?

[Kind of Blue]

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Ended up watching the whole of the first Hundred game and, first and foremost, it was a very good game of cricket which, for much of the time, was of a high standard with the Manchester wicketkeeper proving as accomplished as Sarah Taylor (that's a big compliment!) and better than many in the men's game - Glenn Phillips, who'll be playing for Welsh Fire in the Hundred, has, rightly, been lauded for his batting displays for Gloucestershire, but he was pretty hopeless as a stumper in their televised game with Somerset this week.

It's strange that the women's game can produce superb wicket keepers and yet the standard of catching falls so far below the men's game. It's hard to see why this should be, because strength isn't much of a factor in that department of the game, but last night's match was decided by Manchester dropping three pretty straightforward catches and it was hardly unique to this one game - I've seen some right dolly catches go down in previous women's matches I've watched.

As for the format, I didn't notice it much because it was a watchable match that I quite got into, but, thinking about it, it didn't seem too much different to a T20 game and I'm left thinking that I can't see why someone who wasn't converted to cricket by T20, will be by the Hundred..

I only watched towards the tail end of the second innings and I must say I agree with you. The only thing it took me anytime to adjust to was the way they presented the scoring on the screen, which was hardly an effort either.

Otherwise it felt pretty much like a t20 game and I don’t see how that’s any easier for the uninitiated to understand and enjoy. As such, it’s pretty inoffensive in and of itself but does have a feel of the emperors new clothes about it.

It did beg the question to me why so much money has been pumped into it - as opposed the county system and/or grassroots facilities - or why haven’t the ECB decided to make more county t20 games and England games available on terrestrial television with PR used for this.

One thing that came to mind whilst watching was around changing the over length to 5/10 balls and why they didn’t change boundaries to something like 5/10 - incentivise big hits, makes scoring simpler for new viewers, etc. Don’t quite understand why they made that tweak to the over length and not that much else.

Also agreed, the one stumping was top drawer fairplay.

[the other bob wilson]

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I only watched towards the tail end of the second innings and I must say I agree with you. The only thing it took me anytime to adjust to was the way they presented the scoring on the screen, which was hardly an effort either.

Otherwise it felt pretty much like a t20 game and I don’t see how that’s any easier for the uninitiated to understand and enjoy. As such, it’s pretty inoffensive in and of itself but does have a feel of the emperors new clothes about it.

It did beg the question to me why so much money has been pumped into it - as opposed the county system and/or grassroots facilities - or why haven’t the ECB decided to make more county t20 games and England games available on terrestrial television with PR used for this.

One thing that came to mind whilst watching was around changing the over length to 5/10 balls and why they didn’t change boundaries to something like 5/10 - incentivise big hits, makes scoring simpler for new viewers, etc. Don’t quite understand why they made that tweak to the over length and not that much else.

Also agreed, the one stumping was top drawer fairplay.

I did see a report after I wrote my message that the crowd featured a lot more under tens than you tend to get at T20 games - the implication was that parents would be ore willing to take youngsters because there were less people on the piss at the match, but I think there needs to be a few more games played yet before it should be assumed that it'll be a different type of crowd at the Hundred.

Warwickshire 135-5 off 30 overs, which doesn't sound too bad, but does anyone fancy Glamorgan to chase down 200?

[Kind of Blue]

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I did see a report after I wrote my message that the crowd featured a lot more under tens than you tend to get at T20 games - the implication was that parents would be ore willing to take youngsters because there were less people on the piss at the match, but I think there needs to be a few more games played yet before it should be assumed that it'll be a different type of crowd at the Hundred.

I expect a lot of freebies were handed out last night (I was offered one myself in fact), I would imagine they were trying to target the demographics the ECB wants to encourage to attend as well if they had any sense.

On my limited viewing the crowd shots didn’t look far off what the Oval (albeit less crowded) looks like for the short stuff when Surrey play on the times I’ve been there and seen it on the box.

[Don Corleone]

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Warwickshire all out for 221 with a very good spell from Hogan, seems a reachable target but we all know how fragile the batting is

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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Glammy going to throw away a win here with some dumb batting starting with Carlson playing a real howler to a straight ball

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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195/8 dreadful

[Maurice Swan]

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In my youth (1960's....) I used to watch Glamorgan CCC every time they played in Wales.....I have long given up on cricket with all the changes / being subservient to the media etc...have no interest now.

[jon1959]

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Easy!