[Cricket] Yay! First class cricket is coming back

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Gwylan

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Starting 1 August - five four-day games in a regional league. That will mean for us Essex, Surrey, Hants, Middlesex and Kent, I expect.

It will culminate in a five-day final in Sep.

There'll be a T20 tourney throughout Sep too - 10 regional games

They're working on ways to accommodate spectators

 

LlcoolJ

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Yay!

*Looks out of the window at rain*

Oh......

 

Badger

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I imagine they won't have too much problem spacing out spectators for the four-day games.

 

LlcoolJ

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Maybe, now the Sky money is secured from England, the ECB can get on with protecting grassroots cricket which is dying on it's arse with the lockdown.

 

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LlcoolJ said:

Maybe, now the Sky money is secured from England, the ECB can get on with protecting grassroots cricket which is dying on it's arse with the lockdown.

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Too true. Our club will probably survive the lockdown, although it's been tough, but a few may well go to the wall. Grassroots sport needs a lot of help - there are football and rugby clubs struggling too

 

LlcoolJ

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Gwylan said:

Too true. Our club will probably survive the lockdown, although it's been tough, but a few may well go to the wall. Grassroots sport needs a lot of help - there are football and rugby clubs struggling too

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It would have helped if they hadn't spent all that money on "The 100" which nobody sensible EVER thought was a good idea.

 

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LlcoolJ said:

It would have helped if they hadn't spent all that money on "The 100" which nobody sensible EVER thought was a good idea.

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All too true. I'd like to think that's died a death but I fear it will raise its ugly head again

 

LlcoolJ

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Gwylan said:

All too true. I'd like to think that's died a death but I fear it will raise its ugly head again

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I guess it partly depends on who is taking over from Graves in November. I'm (and everyone I know is) hoping it gets binned!

 

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In related news, I saw Hampshire CC wandering around Arundel the other day - training at Arundel atm because England are at the Ageas Bowl.

 

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Mellotron said:

In related news, I saw Hampshire CC wandering around Arundel the other day - training at Arundel atm because England are at the Ageas Bowl.

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The Sussex/Hampshire border is open? I assumed it would have been locked down. Don't want those sorts entering the county.