Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:10 pm
GT
Club Owner
Joined: Jul 03 2003 Posts: 11532 Location: The Cloth Capped North
Prince of Denmark wrote:I'm disgusted by the Morgan Review. The various one day competitions have been tinkered with so much over the last decade I'm not really bothered what happens to them, but cutting the number of Championship matches when the current format has worked so well and produced so many exciting finishes since it was adopted in 2000 is shocking.
Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
Prince of Denmark wrote:I'm not sure how to link it as it's on a PDF, but Morgan's proposed calendar for the 2014 season is on my desktop. The season starts on Friday 11 April with the one day knockout final on Saturday 20 September; the Champions League is scheduled to begin on 10 September. The season is still just as long, it overlaps with the Champions League, and there are still 19 dates allocated for Championship matches, the same as last season. The only difference is that each team is inactive for five out of 19 rounds instead of three out of 19 rounds.
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:08 pm
Prince of Denmark
Player Coach
Joined: May 31 2005 Posts: 4064 Location: An exclusive mansion apartment in fashionable South London
GT wrote:Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.
This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website?
My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs:
a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this.
b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.)
GT wrote:Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.
I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.
This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website?
My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs:
a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this.
b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.)
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:49 pm
Asim
International Chairman
Joined: Apr 19 2002 Posts: 16239
Chief Stinkwort wrote:Did they manage to hit any?
Plenty of contributions to our downfall again from our batsmen today, Pakistan played very well - and have had a very good 2011/12 in test cricket, but questions have to be asked about our planning and preparation batting-wise. The attitude of persevering with players has served us well in recent times and is to be applauded - so surely with that settled line-up there should be no excuse for people not being ready for what they are going to face from their opponents?
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:51 pm
LeythIg
Club Coach
Joined: Feb 16 2005 Posts: 2490 Location: Landan
I agree with scrapping the 40 over competition in favour for a 50 over. We should be playing the same formats domestically, as are played internationally.
Reducing the county championship games is ridiculous.
As for England, the fact that we're capable of taking 20 wickets on the sub-continent is a plus to take from the series. The batsmen need to work on their technique against spin, and if they do we should be in a good position to win in Sri Lanka. Would leave Morgan out and replace him with either Bresnan or Patel, dependant on whether they'd like an extra front line seamer or batsman that offers a better backup spin option than KP.
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:47 pm
Ordsall Quays Red
International Chairman
Joined: Apr 23 2002 Posts: 3882 Location: In the midst of Manchester's Steak Diane belt
The only sensible way that they could have brought the championship down to 14 games would have been to reduce the number of teams in the top division to 8 so at least there would be an even spread of the 14 games. To have some teams playing each other twice and some only once makes it a lottery.
Post subject: Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:11 pm
Dita's Slot Meter
International Star
Joined: Dec 18 2010 Posts: 3853
Asim wrote:Two decent ODI wins now, Cook and Finn doing the business again - doesn't make up for the test shambles though.
If only we had a couple more explosive and relaible batsman, then we'd be a formidable one-day outfit, because our bowling attack is as good as you could get.
And so you aim towards the sky, And you'll rise high today, Fly away, Far away, Far from pain....
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