Wait for the badges to come out and let Cameron Carter loose on them.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostAny chance of a Belfast franchise? The Stormont Stasis would be good
There won't be any games in Belfast - the first ten games all take place in Amstelveen, the next ten in Edinburgh and the last ten at Malahide, where the knockout stages will also be held.
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Oval Greats seems to have been the equitable solution by which nobody quite got what they wanted.
I'd have gone with London X, just to enable any reports of disappointing ticket sales to appear beneath the headline London X: No Sell Out.
http://www.wisden.com/stories/news-s...al-oval-greats
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It seems Wales isn't even allowed to have its name in a franchise for this abomination, let alone its own national side ;
The Hundred: Cardiff franchise could be 'Western Fire'
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostIt seems Wales isn't even allowed to have its name in a franchise for this abomination, let alone its own national side ;
The Hundred: Cardiff franchise could be 'Western Fire'
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Well, this bullshit is under way. The headlines: Jonny Bairstow "plays" for the Cardiff franchise, Joe Root for the Nottingham one, Ben Stokes for the Leeds one. I say "plays" because none of them may end up turning out - if they do it will be for a maximum of three games - and they'll all get paid 35 grand out of ECB reserves regardless.
Also, all the teams are being sponsored by packets of crisps.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...undred-cricket
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This Ali Martin twitter thread is worth a look for the full horror of how this thing's being marketed.
It reads like a combination of a bad astrology column and something David Brent and Gareth Keenan would kick around in his office in an idle hour.
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I genunely thought the "Welsh Fire" Hula Hoops kit was a hoax when I first saw the mock up on Bairstow.
The whole set look like a Kitbliss project.
In fact, they've already done it :
https://twitter.com/KitblissNZ/status/1168434575183233024?s=20
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I despise 98% of this. The 2% of the hundred that redeems it marginally in my mind is that it's going to be on free-to-air terrestrial TV. And it's worth almost anything to get cricket back on TV where people can actually watch it. So many sports are in decline because nobody actually watches them because they're held hostage by Sky's money.
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