Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread

[kippaxvilla2]

We won again yesterday - beating the Falcons - does that mean we are definitely through now?

[dubont]

Yes, the Bears are guaranteed a home quarter final.

[dcdavecollett]

Home quarter-final? (shudders)

[Villan For Life]

The cricket season is so fragmented, the quarters are not until the first week in September by which time any momentum will have been lost and late season tiredness could become a factor too.

[kippaxvilla2]

Yeh I saw that presumably so the absolutely abominably shit 100 can be shoehorned in.

[Gareth]

The men’s hundred is the w***iest competition ever invented by a moron in a suit…T20 Blast done properly and mixing Sky & terrestrial would have been a far far superior product

The women’s competition has been good for the dev of the game tho

[cdbearsfan]

Agree with first paragraph. Feel that the Blast, or a variation thereof, could have been similarly good for women's cricket if done right.

[Gareth]

Quite possible the nonsense competition works in the womens game because of the fewer teams…get that volume of teams in Blast type would be good

[paul_e]

Quite possible the nonsense competition works in the womens game because of the fewer teams…get that volume of teams in Blast type would be good

I suspect that was the problem though. The counties have a degree of ownership of the t20 so cutting the number of teams would be very difficult and setting up a 'rival' t20 competition could've created legal problems so they had to come up with something that would allow for the reduced number of teams and IPL style franchising but would be different enough to avoid that.

All the marketing stuff about faster pace and more versatility always felt like guff to me so I've always assumed it was a bit of a power move by the ECB to cut the counties out of the discussion.

[Jane]

Go'on Mo!

[Villan For Life]

When Mo is on song he’s a class act.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

I knew very few of the Warwickshire players the other day. I've lost almost all contact (except Mo coming home).

Question: a few years back (5 or 6?) there was a Bears teenager making waves in the game. He was pretty fast and Rob Key was impressed, and mentioned him several times that year. The last time I heard anything about him was a back injury.

Does anyone remember him?

[Richard]

I knew very few of the Warwickshire players the other day. I've lost almost all contact (except Mo coming home).

Question: a few years back (5 or 6?) there was a Bears teenager making waves in the game. He was pretty fast and Rob Key was impressed, and mentioned him several times that year. The last time I heard anything about him was a back injury.

Does anyone remember him?

Henry Brookes maybe? Now at Middlesex. He's no longer that good!

[paul_e]

I knew very few of the Warwickshire players the other day. I've lost almost all contact (except Mo coming home).

Question: a few years back (5 or 6?) there was a Bears teenager making waves in the game. He was pretty fast and Rob Key was impressed, and mentioned him several times that year. The last time I heard anything about him was a back injury.

Does anyone remember him?

I'd guess Henry Brookes. He's still with us but had a lot of niggly injury problems which have meant he hasn't really developed as they hoped.

Bethel is the 'exciting youngster' right now and then there's an 18 year old leggie coming through called Tazeem Ali who is supposed to be a bit special.

[Nev]

Watching the first 100 game and the way the groundsman ambled out to repair some damage in the pitch says everything about his opinion of the competition. I saw more enthusiasm from Dwight Yorke away at Everton just before he fucked off.

Some bint interviewing also described something as "so unique". FFS, it's going to be a long month....