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Does anyone know when the county fixtures for the new saeson will be released please?
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There super overs for 20/20 and 5 points for a CC draw.
Gone are the days of having to get a job for the winter
And congrats to Darren on his team getting the City of Culture this morning
Hope that doesn't mean you'll have to move,,,,,,,:D
I was part of the reason we won
Well as a long standing non-Birmingham member, Im as disgusted as you.
Obviously money is at the root of all this, but all the changes over the last few years (including the garish new pavilion development) have removed every ounce of the laid back familiar,warm friendly charm the ground and the set up once had. There is a cold corporate feel these days.
I cant help feeling there is more to come though. The name may seem irrelevant to some but it suggests a culture change which may alienate supporters outside Birmingham. The club actually said that those outside Birmingham will "still be welcome" on Friday nights- well thank you very much indeed :rolleyes: What next years down the line? T20 city teams (lets face it Warwickshire have effectively named themselves as much)? Merged counties? Both unpalatable to most current county supporters I would imagine.
Sad day for me and a slightly sinister one imo.
Coventry Cowards? Dudley Dunces? Kitt's Green K...no, I won't go there.
But if anyone wanted Lancashire to be called Manchester somethings (Marvels? Mupetts??) there'd be riots on the streets. Well, in the tram station at least.
It's not on...counties are counties. End of.
Thankfully the chief executive at Northants says he has no plans to change to the Northampton Numpties.
Regarding the new structure, the Championship is not good for those who take time off work. Who is going to book a day off work for the final day on a Wednesday when the match may have finished?
All one-day cricket at some counties will be T20 or floodlight. Those who liked 40/50 over Sunday afternoon matches are not being catered for.
Oh well, they did extensive research so they must have it right!
Some local derbies are now only going to happen once, and maybe not on your home ground, which could lose some clubs income in some years.
As an ex marketing person from a big multi-national company, I think that research was the most complicated study I've ever seen, especially the part where you had to give your preference to different formats on different days at different prices.
How the market research company ever processed the results and made conclusions based on statistically significant quotas, I'll never know.
And unlike offline surveys, you couldn't not answer as if you didn't, you couldn't proceed, so I ended up ticking something because I had to.
So, in conclusion, I doubt very much that they have got a research based new formula.
From what I've seen of the new fixtures, they could have made those changes without investing vast sums in a study.
They knew what the issues were and could have debated the best option as it was.
And overall, it looks better.
But having been through the fixtures, I still don't understand why they can't play all the matches in each round at the same time.
It starts off all right but then after a few rounds, you get a match in each division starting in Day 2 of the others' matches. Why? It get so confusing to keep tabs.
Still, I will give the new fixtures a chance.
Lancs should never have let him go and kept him involved in the development of Kerrigan
Hi David
Try this
http://www.backpassmagazine.co.uk/news.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/25702462
My own county Warwickshire sadly (for me) are jockeying for position at the forefront of change making themselves a city rather than a county for next year.
Not sure where all this will end but I reckon whatever it was that drove me into interest in Cricket in the 70's may be properly gone in the next 20 years.
Leave county cricket alone ,it has had too many upheavals and revamps in the last 15 years or so- it isnt as if the England players play much county cricket anyway. Perhaps that is the reason for their failings-the lack of match practice.
The county game has become doubly non inclusive. That is a real kiss of death. The England team becoming a corporate business entity does the county game very little favour.
And by highlighting it now, it shows little respect.
I agree. Why would reducing the counties to 12 improve the English game. In fact the more first class players around means there are more players to chose from. Don't forget that England have had a very successful team until very recently. The county game has a little bit been weakened by the reduction of top class overseas players, so I would certainly encourage more overseas players to the game. Peter Siddle will be playing for Notts this year and should be opening the bowling with Stuart Broad for the start of the season for Notts, which is a pretty good attack
One of the few number 11's to score a county century. Remember watching him a lot in the 70s and 80s
RIP Stevo.
Sad news. One of the few players who made all his International appearances away from home
Sad news indeed.
Rip Graham.
A nice tribute on Cricinfo
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/712375.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/25864414
Looking at that, its not worth releasing a player to England.
Durham got extremely lucky with 'unlucky Onions' but that 'new era' may well result in a financial/team roulette for many a county this year.