The Hundred

[wasteyouryouth]

Phoenix back to their best

 

[pillowprocter]

Birmingham Phoenix are on fire Is this real life?

Phoenix back to their best

after the fire the phoenix is just a pile of ashes

 

[Umair7]

UP THE INVINCIBLES!

 

[Aislabie]

Big up my Skips

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Hilarious blundering finish from Originals

 

[wasteyouryouth]

This was a fun dismissal

 

[Aislabie]

The longer the Hundred goes on, the lower I expect scores to get. Teams need 20 balls less in terms of batting resources, which makes room for five specialist bowlers (or four and a keeper like Rhianna Southby) and six or seven overall bowling options to give the fielding team even more flexibility. (They obviously also have 20 balls fewer to score their runs from)

Add that to the fact that a struggling batter can be trapped on strike for ten straight balls, and that a particularly dominant bowler could bowl ten straight balls or even 20 out of 25 consecutively. Fielders should even be a little bit fresher as well because they need only change ends nine times rather than 19 - a real 1%er that, but it's still something.

If the ECB had set out to create a more intricately tactical or bowler friendly format, they'd have struggled to do so - which is ironic given that this was meant to be a simple format with lots of oh yeahs for the mums and kids.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

The longer the Hundred goes on, the lower I expect scores to get. Teams need 20 balls less in terms of batting resources, which makes room for five specialist bowlers (or four and a keeper like Rhianna Southby) and six or seven overall bowling options to give the fielding team even more flexibility. (They obviously also have 20 balls fewer to score their runs from)

Add that to the fact that a struggling batter can be trapped on strike for ten straight balls, and that a particularly dominant bowler could bowl ten straight balls or even 20 out of 25 consecutively. Fielders should even be a little bit fresher as well because they need only change ends nine times rather than 19 - a real 1%er that, but it's still something.

If the ECB had set out to create a more intricately tactical or bowler friendly format, they'd have struggled to do so - which is ironic given that this was meant to be a simple format with lots of oh yeahs for the mums and kids.

The smarter option (and just to add more complexity) may have been to have three powerplays like ODI cricket with fewer fielders out allowed in the middle overs. Of course the smartest option would have been to not tinker with T20 cricket and just implement the common sense rule changes.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Finally a win for the Phoenix women

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Dan Mousley bowling 83mph off spinning yorkers

 

[wasteyouryouth]

That's a crazy performance from Dan Mousley to bowl the last ten balls, defend 10 from 10 and win by 6 runs.

Rockets 5 for 7 from the last 13 balls. A collapse of Sri Lankan proportions.

 

[Aislabie]

Dan Mousley bowling 83mph off spinning yorkers

He has to have made himself a (the?) first choice white ball spinner for England with that.

Just such a unique threat to be able to call on at any time in the innings. A rich man's Michael Yardy.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

He has to have made himself a (the?) first choice white ball spinner for England with that.

Just such a unique threat to be able to call on at any time in the innings. A rich man's Michael Yardy.

Finger spinners around the world might look at that and I think I need to develop an 80mph yorker. I know, in the last couple of years, the 70mph+ quick one has become more common but I think Mousley is the one I first saw doing it as a stock speed in T10/T20/100.

I think him and Bethell are certainly going to get a chance over the next 12 months (if not in September).

 

[wasteyouryouth]

For anyone wondering about the Mousley chat

 

[Umair7]

Manchester Choking Masterclass LMAO XD