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spearat

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If your 1st team have 2 wicket keepers who are both good bats and your 2nd team are left with no keeper due to a broken finger, should the 1st team be dropping a keeper to help the club or saying tough luck and leaving you with no one that can keep wicket well?
 

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Can I get an opinion from other clubs?

If your 1st team have 2 wicket keepers who are both good bats and your 2nd team are left with no keeper due to a broken finger, should the 1st team be dropping a keeper to help the club or saying tough luck and leaving you with no one that can keep wicket well?
That really depends on the club to be honest, and the relative merits of each team.

If the club is one with several teams, and all of those teams are ambitious (in the way of an Australian grade club) then it'd make sense to drop one down. If the club is one where there's the first team that's ambitious, and the second team that's for developing kids and/or giving the oldest farts a place to play, then probably not.

There's not really a right or wrong answer
 

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That really depends on the club to be honest, and the relative merits of each team.

If the club is one with several teams, and all of those teams are ambitious (in the way of an Australian grade club) then it'd make sense to drop one down. If the club is one where there's the first team that's ambitious, and the second team that's for developing kids and/or giving the oldest farts a place to play, then probably not.

There's not really a right or wrong answer
The club has 4 teams. The idea is the 2’s to stay as close to the 1’s, league wise, to support the 1’s. the 3’s and 4’s are for development. 2 weeks now without a keeper.....5 dropped catches and 40+ byes. A draw and a loss after winning 5 on the trot. Both games would have feasibly been won with an experienced keeper.
 

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The club has 4 teams. The idea is the 2’s to stay as close to the 1’s, league wise, to support the 1’s. the 3’s and 4’s are for development. 2 weeks now without a keeper.....5 dropped catches and 40+ byes. A draw and a loss after winning 5 on the trot. Both games would have feasibly been won with an experienced keeper.
Well if that's the idea then there should be one keeper in the firsts and one in the seconds, which is pretty self-evident from the ethos it sounds like the club has.
 

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Can anyone confirm if the rumour the format for future world cups is going to be based on the Hundred?
 

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No don't believe on that. It won't ever happen
Agreed. Can anyone seeing the likes of the IPL and BBL abandoning T20 for a format they'd have to pay the ECB to use.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has applied for overseas trademarks for the format for its new competition, which is to be introduced in 2020.

Nations planning to run their own version may have to seek ECB approval.
The ECB has filed to trademark "The Hundred" in India, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and is understood to be considering other countries.

The tournament's format, which is set to take place over 100 balls per innings, will be trialled from Friday.

An overseas trademark could mean that the ECB could demand payment from other international boards that want to play a version of the 100-ball format.
 

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Cricket not being an Olympic sport becomes more absurd by the day. 13-year olds are winning gold in skateboarding, for God's sake.
 

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Olympics can't allow BCCI to dominate them :p
Very true. Also the Olympics don't go out and look for additional sports to include. They rely on various sports governing bodies to get their act together and make their case for inclusion so it will need a push from the ICC.

As with everything it will come down to money. When the value of being in the Olympics is deemed to be greater than any loss due to the potential impact on a T20 World Cup. There's a ODI World Cup, Champions Trophy or T20 World Cup every year, where do you place it in the schedule to not impact those tournaments? The obvious solution is to make the T20 World Cup every 4 years instead of every 2 but will the boards sign off on that?
 

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