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Apr 2023
10:13pm, 28 Apr 2023
19,990 posts
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rf_fozzy
No-one except a few in England and Australia will play test cricket - all the kids will sign franchise deals.
No one will play county cricket. No one will play test cricket.
It's the death knell of anything but T20.
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Apr 2023
5:49am, 29 Apr 2023
5,996 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
See also Packer/World Series/pyjama cricket... cricket will need to evolve for sure, but I don't share your apocalyptic view. 20 over cricket itself was virtually extinct by the late 80s/early 90s in club cricket and had never been played professionally. The world turns, but Test cricket will keep going, as will the counties. I do accept that some of the smaller counties are at risk of not being financially viable (more of an ongoing risk than a new risk).
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Apr 2023
7:14am, 29 Apr 2023
7,693 posts
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Pothunter
The main risk for test cricket as I see it is that outside of England, India and Australia it just isn’t financially viable for the boards. South Africa are playing fewer and fewer tests every year, and for South African players the lure of IPL cash will be irresistible.
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Apr 2023
9:44am, 29 Apr 2023
11,972 posts
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lammo
Went on holiday over Easter and managed to get a peek in here, any guesses where?
I’ll post a give away pic later
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Apr 2023
9:56am, 29 Apr 2023
9,453 posts
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Fields
The pic itself gives it away 
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Apr 2023
9:57am, 29 Apr 2023
37,093 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Chelmsford
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Apr 2023
10:23am, 29 Apr 2023
145,168 posts
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GregP
Is it Prague?
So many formats, so many different teams with the same people in them. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to care.
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Apr 2023
12:11pm, 29 Apr 2023
11,973 posts
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lammo
oh well, here's an even more obvious one
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Apr 2023
12:12pm, 29 Apr 2023
11,974 posts
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lammo
sadly no games on when we were there
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Apr 2023
12:14pm, 29 Apr 2023
37,095 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
I think that's my problem with the IPL, it is just various people in various line ups.
I think it seems The Hundred is dead, fair enough, but there is no point keeping it for the Women's game if it is, as well as it's done for them. It's a dead format.
I think Test Matches will carry on, because T20 is actually shrinking despite those contracts, see Big Bashthey're killing it. Once the numbers watching fall below a certain threshold various leagues will die. It will take a concerted effort to keep.some countries playing but I reckon that'll happen.
As for kids signing up to T20, those kids come from somewhere, soon those kids will be contracted and they're be bought and sold as per football transfers.
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