Random Cricket Thread (Domestic Cricket)

[sussexpob]

There was a lot of talk about how crooked the IPL is and Indian cricket in general a few years ago which led to the Death of a Gentleman film.

The way it is heading, we will end with a handful of faceless corporations from India owning pretty much every single Franchise in world cricket amongst a very small pool of ultra-wealthy people, at which point they will have an established monopoly that will be unchallenged. And the game will just become an extension of their business interests.... it will be hosted on their media companies and you will pay the price they set to watch, you will get only adverts for their products, and what not.

There are already a few IPL franchise that now own multiple teams across the world. Get ready for the 2035 T20 World Series competition, where the Mumbai Indians play the English Southern Coast Indians, both teams having progressed beating the Western Australian Indians and Indians of Pretoria respectively in their semi finals.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well, hopefully global warming will save us from this dystopia...

[Durhamfootman]

This is basically what happened with the PL. We ended up selling to the big boy businesses, and what happened? They tried to steal the game from us by cutting out its heart and running away to a super league with it. The fact they under-estimated the cultural robustness of football in England and other European countries is a mute point really,

some of those clubs still fancy it and after biding their time will probably try to give it another go

[Durhamfootman]

Blimey!

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/one ... -scorecard

Western Australia.... what on earth were you doing?

[captaincolly]

Blimey!

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/one ... -scorecard

Western Australia.... what on earth were you doing?

Even Durham don't do that sort of collapse!

[Durhamfootman]

oooh, steady on........ give us time

[Durhamfootman]

old bullet head, Mr sandpaper man Lehmann is taking over from Sadler at Northants

crikey.... talk about jumping out of the frying pan into the fire

[captaincolly]

oooh, steady on........ give us time

Yes, I probably shouldn't tempt fate.

[Durhamfootman]

A couple of retirements from Warks

Michael Burgess (30) has retired early to pursue other career interests

Liam Norwell (32) has retired due to injury. His final CC match contribution remains his remarkable 9-62 on the final day of the '22 season to save Warks from the drop. Without the injuries, he could have been a contender....... probably

[andy]

Real shame about norwell, such a talented bowler but injuries had plagued him for ages...a case of what could have been for him

[Durhamfootman]

I've just seen the collision between Dan Sams and Cam Bancroft today in the BBL

Nasty.... very nasty. For a moment Sams looked as though he was sparked out

[sussexpob]

Hopefully both are ok. Horrible collision, let's cross our fingers neither was hurt badly

[Durhamfootman]

I don't know about Sams, but Bancroft has a busted nose and a broken shoulder

[Durhamfootman]

I see that Graeme Smith is having a moan about how the ILT20 is bad for cricket

presumably this attack has nothing whatsoever to do with it clashing with his own T20 league.

[andy]

James Vince has effectively retired from red ball cricket