T/20 Takes Too Long, Welcome To C/100 ....

..... that's balls/innings, not overs, according to the proposed new format under discussion from the ECB

As in this LINK

I'm saying nowt, as words fail me right now.

We really are world champions at screwing our own national team by playing formats not replicated anywhere else in the world.

T20 too long, more gimmicks needed, obviously.

WTF

Surely this is a joke

At least this crap would end sooner.

Oh dear.

This sort of thing would be better released on April 1st.

Innings ends with a 10 ball over. Might see a 50 run over.

At least the ECB is funny unlike the entirely toxic CA.

Laughed at the Beeb being concerned game length not run past 10.0pm and clash with the news. Interesting too was the conflict of interest at the MCC.

I blame Merlin. He clearly choked on his GnT and his pen leaked on theMCC sign off paper. The ECB lawyers declared the resultant ink and Stilton smudge to be Merlin's genuine signature.

skully wrote:Innings ends with a 10 ball over. Might see a 50 run over.

That's nothing skulls. Someone in the comments proposed the next big thing from the ECB. A combination of cricket and snooker.

They'd call it Snocket.

21 overs/side. 15 to be bowled with a red ball, scored normally. One over each with a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black one - each with the appropriate score multiplier - in whichever over the skipper chooses.

Pity the poor sod who has the prospect of conceding a 42-run ball with the black one .

night cricket and a black ball conjures up a shitload of entertainment variations

"Sconicket"

What about a cricket-ish version of whack-a-mole?

The prawn-sandwich entrepreneurs and business-minded administrators are each assigned a hole to keep popping up out of to suggest their new, even more brilliant (i.e. even more lucrative) variant on cricket ...

Vic Marks is unusually direct in his condemnation:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/19/ecb-100-ball-plans-gimmick-kill-off-county-championship

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For fu*ks sake.

horace wrote:At least the ECB is funny unlike the entirely toxic CA.

Laughed at the Beeb being concerned game length not run past 10.0pm and clash with the news. Interesting too was the conflict of interest at the MCC.

I blame Merlin. He clearly choked on his GnT and his pen leaked on theMCC sign off paper. The ECB lawyers declared the resultant ink and Stilton smudge to be Merlin's genuine signature.

It wasn't Stilton but a large slice of Gorgonzola. Mmmmm...

Hair brained idea - doomed to failure.

Merlin wrote:

horace wrote:At least the ECB is funny unlike the entirely toxic CA.

Laughed at the Beeb being concerned game length not run past 10.0pm and clash with the news. Interesting too was the conflict of interest at the MCC.

I blame Merlin. He clearly choked on his GnT and his pen leaked on theMCC sign off paper. The ECB lawyers declared the resultant ink and Stilton smudge to be Merlin's genuine signature.

It wasn't Stilton but a large slice of Gorgonzola. Mmmmm...

Hair brained idea - doomed to failure.

Cheer Merls. Nice taste in cheese