Blast

[The Large One]

The new name for Twenty20 next year is... NatWest T20 Blast.

No, really.

http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/articles/county-schedule-2014-announced

 

[happypig]

It's still cricket for people who don't like cricket

 

[Mellotron]

Everyone will still just call it 20-20.

 

[Badger]

This goes alongside the KAPOW 50 and the BOSH County Championship.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

This goes alongside the KAPOW 50 and the BOSH County Championship.

The KAPOW 40, and the NUDGE County Championship.

 

[big nuts]

20/20 is an abomination.

 

[willyfantastic]

isnt it called the big bash in australia?

i dont mind t20, its something different and can mean some fringe players/one day specialists get to play

 

[Badger]

The KAPOW 40, and the NUDGE County Championship.

It's definitely the KAPOW 50 next season.

 

[Pevenseagull]

county championship games starting on Sunday ... good news for me, I normally have Mondays as a day off work and a day on the beer

 

[Guinness Boy]

It's still cricket for people who don't like cricket

This

 

[vegster]

Kind of ironic really, I have been saying pretty similar to " Blast " whenever I checked our scores in the 20/20 last season.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

The 60 overs format back in the 70s was known as 'The Nurdle Down to Fine Leg 60'

 

[Grombleton]

Does the 'Blast' imply that they will begin to use explosives in the matches?

Litter the outfield with mines?
One ball per over is actually a grenade?

...thinking about it, i'd happily watch that.

 

[Mellotron]

The 60 overs format back in the 70s was known as 'The Nurdle Down to Fine Leg 60'

Seeing that word makes me miss Paul Collingwood. King of the Nurdle.

 

[The Large One]

Anyone remember Scott Styris nurdling 100 in 37 balls last year (the second 50 coming in 14 balls), including this dose of comedy cricket...?

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Marvellous scenes.

 

[Hotchilidog]

A quick skim of the fixtures shows that in addition to the Championship permanently fixed to Sun-Wed, the One Day cup games all appear to be midweek games rendering the first innings a write off for anyone with a job. The only easy access games are championship first day and T20 ye gods.....Blast games on fridays.

Not entirely sure about the merits of a membership now. Everything sacrificed for T20. At the moment I am not happy. I'll go through it in detail later and maybe calm down then.

 

[crodonilson]

An exciting innovative new format to bring T20 into the teenies.

I also note that Warwickshire are now called the Birmingham Bears and Glamorgan could become the Cardiff Gators.

 

[Badger]

A quick skim of the fixtures shows that in addition to the Championship permanently fixed to Sun-Wed, the One Day cup games all appear to be midweek games rendering the first innings a write off for anyone with a job. The only easy access games are championship first day and T20 ye gods.....Blast games on fridays.

Not entirely sure about the merits of a membership now. Everything sacrificed for T20. At the moment I am not happy. I'll go through it in detail later and maybe calm down then.

Horsham and Arundel must be royally pissed off, they used to rely on having at least a one-day match on a weekend day.

 

[big nuts]

Seeing that word makes me miss Paul Collingwood. King of the Nurdle.

No he was the prince, the king was Graham Thorpe.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Horsham and Arundel must be royally pissed off, they used to rely on having at least a one-day match on a weekend day.

Actually the have both escaped. Arundel has a sunday T20 and Horsham a sunday one day game, so some sanity there at least.