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Chrisity Jul 2021 12:12am, 22 Jul 2021 19,194 posts	0 Chrisity Today on BBC we had 2 hours of Women's football and 3 hours of Women's cricket. That was very worthwhile.
flanker Jul 2021 12:39am, 22 Jul 2021 19,921 posts	0 flanker There was also someone playing a 1980s ZX Sprectrum game over the cricket. Don't see any need for a new gimmicky format when T20 is already established. Just need to give the women a T20 prallel tournament. Hadn't realised it was on Sky too unfortunately, as I have no interest in some nobody DJ stuck in a camper van or whatever else they were wittering about.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2021 11:03am, 22 Jul 2021 31,434 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens In the long run there will be one short format, at a guess I would say T20, but if this works to get women and kids into the game it is fine. I can see that as regards going to your local cricket club, much the same for the running club I was at after 2012. We were not ready for the upsurge in juniors and any we did didn't hang around much, so hopefully the fact the hundred is here for the season and seasons to come it might work out.
GregP Jul 2021 11:06am, 22 Jul 2021 128,200 posts	0 GregP The Hundred will only replace T20 if the IPL gets behind it. I don't care (well I do, because T20 is a 'real' club format and The Hundred is a DWOMT) which one prevails as long as we don't get lumbered with both - like with the 50 & 60 over nonsense in my cricket-watching youth.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2021 11:09am, 22 Jul 2021 31,437 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I reckon it is time, possibly a long time, it took ages for 40 over cricket to go! I imagine the IPL will stick with T20 for the hell of it, no matter how successful the hundred might get.
TROSaracen Jul 2021 11:10am, 22 Jul 2021 23,633 posts	0 TROSaracen The 100 is after world domination. It's the Bond Villain of cricket formats. It'll chew up the ODI game first, tests next - then a final showdown with IPL/T20. We'll have the tortuous job of explaining to our grandkids that this game they're watching once used to last a full day, or even 4/5 days. They'll react with incredulity and disbelief.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2021 11:12am, 22 Jul 2021 31,438 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens It will be interesting to see the viewing figures for Sky and the BBC. I would guess the BBC'S will be huge in comparison.
GregP Jul 2021 12:32pm, 22 Jul 2021 128,202 posts	0 GregP I can get as misty eyed as I like about the past - I loved the JPL with an absolute passion - and it was the Hundred of its time. All this bleating about five ball overs ignore the fact that the Aussies had eight ball overs when I was a kid. And red cricket balls? Don’t here tennis purists demanding the return of white balls. And “three sets except for men in the slams” shows that tennis isn’t the whole way there.
Oscar the Grouch Jul 2021 12:37pm, 22 Jul 2021 3,307 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch Wooden racquets. Jumpers for goalposts
Nicholls595 Jul 2021 12:43pm, 22 Jul 2021 25,241 posts	0 Nicholls595 It is difficult to truly invent anything new in cricket... I played Evening League in Nottingham back in the late 70's/early 80's. Nominally 15 x 8 ball overs (so T20). If the captains thought the light would fade, they could agree to 14, 13 or 12 overs (96 balls - almost The Hundred) We played ramp shots and over the keeper shots* and all manner of things "invented" in recent times and also had some (for the time) crazy field placings. Short mid wicket and short extra cover to prevent drop and run singles. We generally bowled normally, working on hit the top of off, you miss I hit sort of thing. No knuckle balls or slower ball bouncers or any of that nonsense. I once opened the bowling and took 4 wickets for 3 runs in the first over. One caught at slip, one caught behind off balls that moved away. Then an LBW and a bowled off balls that jagged back. Simple game really * admittedly there was never any switch hitting