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Dec 2021
11:39am, 21 Dec 2021
131,638 posts
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GregP
The England team played 50 days in the regular county season last year. Given that The Hundred and the T20 Blast are also ringfenced because of their financial importance, when are you geniuses going to put on your Franchises-Of-All-The-Talents red ball competition featuring all the England squad players then?
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Dec 2021
11:40am, 21 Dec 2021
26,975 posts
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fetcheveryone
I think the majority have decided that the squad isn't up to much - so maybe it's more about finding the best replacements 
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Dec 2021
11:45am, 21 Dec 2021
131,639 posts
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GregP
Nico's going to have a fit about me confusing cricket with baseball again - but my solution would be to monumentally reduce the role of the national side - 50 days (yes I counted them) is silly - and the ODIs and T20s are so numerous as to have no meaning. Surely 31 (5x5, 2x3) is a more reasonable number?
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Dec 2021
11:48am, 21 Dec 2021
26,692 posts
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Nicholls595
50 days?
Firstly, make the Test team and the white ball team 2 separate entities. The Test team plays 6 or 7 home Test a summer. Out side of that, the contracted players are required to play in the franchise matches to find form.
Any Test players wanting to play white ball have to choose. Write them off.
3 Tests in June/July. 3/4 tests in August/September
Red ball franchise games in May/June.
Play the Hundred in a shortened block at the end of July and early August to co-incide with school holidays.
T20 Blast dies on it's arse.
Something like that?
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Dec 2021
11:51am, 21 Dec 2021
131,641 posts
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GregP
I'll send you my working for the 50, nico.
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Dec 2021
11:52am, 21 Dec 2021
131,642 posts
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GregP
(it 'only' had six tests in it)
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Dec 2021
11:56am, 21 Dec 2021
26,695 posts
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Nicholls595
Why can't we just accept that white ball, limited overs cricket is a different game. Like rugby 7's. Separate teams, separate tournaments. Players have to choose.
If you want quick matches, lots of them, fast paced with less subtlety, watch 7's.
If you're a purist, watch the full 15 a side game.
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Dec 2021
11:59am, 21 Dec 2021
15,302 posts
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Cerrertonia
Suspect you're not going to get many who voluntarily opt out of white ball and the chance to play IPL. Malan, Bairstow, Buttler, Woakes, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Liam Livingstone, Eoin Morgan, Jason Roy, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes - that's a pretty decent squad of players to choose not to pick.
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Dec 2021
12:02pm, 21 Dec 2021
26,696 posts
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Nicholls595
Agreed its a decent ODI/T20 squad, but that's the point. leave them to play the hit and giggle while developing a squad to concentrate on red ball.
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Dec 2021
12:04pm, 21 Dec 2021
131,644 posts
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GregP
Then we have the 'multiple versions of white ball' wankfuckery on top of that. Separate ODI and T20 squads?
England - or 'England' playing an ODI and a test match simultaneously? What are they, the fucking Sugar Babes?
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