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paulcook 13 Feb 12:14pm, 13 Feb 2025 7,449 posts	Quote Pin paulcook That seems a very good, balanced piece. Loo rolls and all.
phal 13 Feb 12:29pm, 13 Feb 2025 5,128 posts	Quote Pin phal Agree with that - well balanced. There’s been an email sent out by Richard Thompson today about it as well that has not long popped into my inbox. Awaiting loo roll report with baited breath 😉
57.5 Degrees of Pain 13 Feb 1:06pm, 13 Feb 2025 27,077 posts	Quote Pin 57.5 Degrees of Pain A great deal of money will have to be squeezed out of the system to make these big investments worthwhile, and to pay the limited labour pool. Other than the obvious limited exposure on free to air TV and game times to suit the TV audiences, it'll be interesting where it all leads.
fetcheveryone 13 Feb 1:19pm, 13 Feb 2025 31,587 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone I noted the bit that suggested there was some pressure to switch away from metric to the T20 format to fit in with other leagues.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 13 Feb 1:21pm, 13 Feb 2025 27,078 posts	Quote Pin 57.5 Degrees of Pain fetcheveryone wrote:I noted the bit that suggested there was some pressure to switch away from metric to the T20 format to fit in with other leagues. They'd be getting 20% more game for their money free if charge.
fetcheveryone 13 Feb 1:23pm, 13 Feb 2025 31,589 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone By that logic, Test Matches are safe
Ocelot Spleens 13 Feb 4:19pm, 13 Feb 2025 40,390 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens The problem is that it's a one off payment for the control of the middle of the summer for the foreseeable future. It might not look so good in 20 years time when the Test teams are shite, tbe 50 over teams are shite, but maybe the T20 team will be OK if there are rules about playing young home grown players. Oh, my mistake, not very different at all.
rf_fozzy 13 Feb 4:23pm, 13 Feb 2025 23,567 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy They are already talking about expanding it. And although they say the window is "fixed" - it is until it isn't. The loser will be the longer format game of course.
NDWDave 13 Feb 4:33pm, 13 Feb 2025 20,809 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave I can take or leave the 100 vs 120 balls but I think the idea of changing ends ever other over (/set) has merits. Cuts down a lot of dead time
57.5 Degrees of Pain 13 Feb 4:58pm, 13 Feb 2025 27,085 posts	Quote Pin 57.5 Degrees of Pain NDWDave wrote:I can take or leave the 100 vs 120 balls but I think the idea of changing ends ever other over (/set) has merits. Cuts down a lot of dead time You would hope there would be a CAFA (Campaign Against Fannying About) in all facets of the game. To look at ways of decreasing the dead time. It worked for baseball eventually.