TheLocalYokel
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Not being a big fan of 20:20 cricket (I liken it to 5-a-side football compared with the real thing) I thought that the ECB's new toy The Hundred (this summer's inaugural season was axed because of the virus) was about as far as anyone might stretch the Great Game's format.
I was wrong.
In South Africa they've come up with an idea where three teams contest a match - a single match that is, not a round-robin tournament.
Out of curiosity I watched a bit of it on Red Button tv today. I felt a bit like how I imagine Americans feel when they watch 'proper' cricket. I can understand why 20:20 has gained an audience, partly a new audience it's reported, because in essence it's a simplified and abridged version of cricket, but this 3-team format seems unnecessarily complicated.
I was wrong.
In South Africa they've come up with an idea where three teams contest a match - a single match that is, not a round-robin tournament.
Out of curiosity I watched a bit of it on Red Button tv today. I felt a bit like how I imagine Americans feel when they watch 'proper' cricket. I can understand why 20:20 has gained an audience, partly a new audience it's reported, because in essence it's a simplified and abridged version of cricket, but this 3-team format seems unnecessarily complicated.