Superb to watch, but puzzled how the teams are put together, anybody help me understand ??
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Superb to watch, but puzzled how the teams are put together, anybody help me understand ??
Is it? Are you supporting Welsh Fire and if so why because there wasn’t a single Welsh player in the team tonight?
There was an auction a while back where different teams put in a bid for players.
I don’t have a team to support in this so have no interest.
Its a chance to see world class cricketers in Cardiff whats not to enjoy
Try this link , if you have a few hours to spare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2qKaC3VpM
If marketed properly T20 could be this with a local team in Glamorgan to support. You could have world class players playing for Glammy mixed in with current playing staff. It would simply need the removal of the restrictions regarding overseas players.
Not difficult to organise. Maybe allow five top players to be signed to mix in.with current players. I don’t see why we needed a 16.4 over competition as well.
It isn’t daft at all but it’s just the norm. We support players that have no affinity to Cardiff. It’s quite weird but it works in all sports.
Imagine if we supported someone in the Olympics, competing for the UK but actually someone from the continent we paid a transfer fee for.
It’s easier if you don’t think about it and enjoy it for what it is.
Apart from when Kevin Pietersen is commentating, I'm enjoying the 100 a lot more than I thought I would. My favourite forms of the game are the "boring" four and five day ones, but good cricket is good cricket however it's played and I'd rate last night as terrific entertainment which had me supporting the Welsh Fire all of the way through. Now, if I were a Gloucestershire or Somerset fan, there's no way I'd be supporting the Welsh team, even though that's what the blazers think they should be doing. However, as a Welshman born and bred who has lived here for virtually all of my life, I have to support them.
I dont know about support them but I want Welsh fire to win.
T20 or the hundred isnt 'proper' cricket and even though I also want England and Glamorgan win in the shorter format im not that bothered I watch it for the entertainment.
Thats what this is entertainment watching the best players in the world. If it gets more youngsters interested and playing then im all for it in this format.
Id rather watch this side than watch 5 or 6 of Glamorgans line up have a go at it.
Just take the hundred and T20 as it is. Entertainment. Its not really to be taken seriously.
I'm hoping that this tournament actually leads to a big improvement in the t20 blast from next year. The 100 ball concept is demented and crap.
But at least the launch of the tournament has forced the ecb to join the rest of the world in integrating mens and womens tournaments, trying to attract families, lowering ticket prices and speeding up time between overs etc.
For some inexplicable reason the ecb and counties have failed to do these things for years, despite overwhelming evidence from every other cricket playing country that its the approach that works.
Now that these things have been implemented for the hundred, there is no excuse for the counties not to take the same approach during the blast. Hopefully from next year we can see the counties getting out into their communities and attracting families to the blast comp.
"Welsh Fire" is a bit of a silly name, especially as they're meant to represent Somerset & Gloucestershire as well
I dont get why there is a mishmash of team names. We have cities - London, Manchester, B'ham. countries - Welsh fire, General areas - Northern and southern and then those named after a cricket ground - oval invisibles and somthing trent based.
It just seems a bit confused.
Yeah, it’s a bit all over the shop. I was expecting with all the talk of focusing on cities the names would have focused on that.
I’m surprised they didn’t go with something “Western”-based for the Glam-Glos-Som franchise. I guess with those English county fans that are bothered with the tournament would look to follow or keep an eye out for another team (Southern Braves maybe) as they’re just as likely (or unlikely rather) to travel to Cardiff as they would be Southampton or even London.