I asked this in the England - S. Africa thread and got pointedly ignored so maybe I should take the hint. However I'm a persistent bugger so can someone please tell me what the EPL 20-20 league is about, is it cities rather than counties and what chance a Scottish or Irish 'team' being allowed in (no I'm not joking)?
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Three separate suggestions as at present.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12123_3820905,00.html
Bradshaw/Stewart proposal
* Nine Franchises
* Games played at Test venues
* 57 matches
* Player auctions
Soper proposal
* All 18 counties involved
* Played in two divisions
* Promotion and relegation after three years
* Minimun capacity of 18,000* for grounds in top division but grants for redevelopment available
Clarke proposal
* All 18 counties involved
* Two teams from IPL
* A Stanford All Stars XI
* Played in two divisions
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Gangster Octopus wrote:
Which one was this then?
Why don't they just go the whole hog and get Maurice Lindsay in to administer it on behalf of the broadcasters.
Sorry. I meant on behalf of the ECB, the competition, and the counties.
So easy to confuse them, init?
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what chance a Scottish or Irish 'team' being allowed in
Two separate 20-20s seems over the top. Won't it dilute interest?
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The only pleasure I take from this is that it's a marginably better idea than the franchises plan that was being batted around by 'big' clubs (Hampshire?) a few days ago. The idea of two overseas sides seems to me to rob the 'English Premier League' of any competitive tension, of any credibility. But then there's another EPL that is amazingly popular despite having no competitve tension, so maybe its the way to go.
I'm not sure that it's Twenty20 overkill: it's just cricket in a managable chunk that people can go and watch after work. I think the new Twenty20 Cup - played on Fridays after work through July and August - is actually a good move.
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You can see how this is gonna pan out can't you. Twenty20 overkill will lead to some attendances tailing out, whereupon opportunistic voices will seize the moment to argue for a more "streamlined, elitist" version of the new league, consisting of only "viable, strong" counties (ie those with nice big Test grounds). I've got a lot of sympathy with yer bog-standard county committees here - they pioneered Twenty20 in the first place and now others with less connection to the game want to rip it from them.
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