Should PCB also start a 'The Hundred' style tournament in Pakistan?

[MenInG]

Might be early days but from what can see, The Hundred has some potential and a novelty value which is rekindling/reinforcing interest in cricket and could well be a marketing man's dream.

Question is can other nations, like Pakistan, also use the same idea and start this format in Pakistan with a mix of local and overseas players?

Will it work

 

[hoshiarpurexpress]

Why not ? If you pay top dollars and sell and market is locally, it should.

 

[Last Monetarist]

I'm slowly coming round to the idea of the hundred despite being highly critical of the concept at the onset.

I won't mind the PSL to be converted to a Hundred tournament. There's not much difference essentially with T20 cricket. If the objective is to create a snappier, shorter format of cricket distinct from 50-over cricket, the hundred is still of sufficiently long duration to not detract from the basic tenets of the sport.

At the end of the day, the duration of a T20 game has stealthily crept up towards 4 hours due to the need for timeouts for the sake of advertisements and product placement, which is quite far apart from the over-rate regulations in place when the ECB started out the format in 2003. Teams only used to have 75 minutes to bowl their overs during the first few years of the Blast.

I quite like the imposition of enforced field changes in the hundred if teams aren't able to bowl their allocation of overs by the stipulated time. It remains to be seen how those rules fall by the wayside over the next few years.

 

[Ab Fan]

I personally think there is no place for T20 and The Hundred together in international cricket.

Either merge them into 'The Hundred' or stick with T20s. Merging into The Hundred has one advantage that the time for a given match gets reduced to roughly 3 hours only.

 

[MenInG]

I feel that explaining rules to people will be tough in Pakistan.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Pakistan should bring in a franchise version similar to the Hong Kong Sixes.

 

[Zaz]

Whats the difference between the two apart from 20 balls less?

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Don't like The Hundred personally.

Stop adding these weird formats just keep it test, odi and t20. This hundred business is just going to start dissolving the test format. First Pakistan get it then India and then God knows who. Let's leave it at the 3 formats we have now.

 

[Last Monetarist]

This hundred business is just going to start dissolving the test format.

Nah, it'll only cannibalize T20 cricket given the lack of distinction between the two. There's no crossover with test cricket, so that core audience won't be affected. The biggest threat it currently poses is to the Blast.

 

[gazza619]

Whats the difference between the two apart from 20 balls less?

I posted a similar post a few days ago, but having watched The Hundred, i can say that it is a bit more exciting.

A few rules are different.

 

[UzmanBeast]

I find The Hundred to be a mechanism the ECB used to try and gain relevance because their local fanbase wasn't really showing up to games, and as a result, a lot of their stadiums needed revenue to support themselves.

Nobody really watched the Vitality Blast, so they hoped that this innovation would help them at least bring in some revenue.

However, most people, especially the subcontinent, are the market that ECB has missed with this unnecessary venture.

If you cannot get subcontinental viewership, your league won't be functional. IPL is far, far superior to this ludicrous concept of The Hundred, and the same goes with PSL in my mind.

The hype for The Hundred will be gone because boards won't send players to play a format that doesn't exist, that will be the biggest factor against The Hundred.

 

[Shoaibbtt]

Nah, it'll only cannibalize T20 cricket given the lack of distinction between the two. There's no crossover with test cricket, so that core audience won't be affected. The biggest threat it currently poses is to the NatWest Blast.

NatWest Blast is boring as sod, couldn't care less about it.

I don't like The Hundred, just keep it simple as T20.

 

[Officer Barbrady]

The 100 seems a better way to grow the sport outside of the 8-9 international markets. The rules are intuitive and simpler to understand but the format still retains the best elements of T20.

Also being just slightly shorter to fit in a 2.5 hr slot is an advantage.

This is the format to replace T20 with and move the game forward. That’s a huge ask of the ICC and all the leagues around the world but cricket will be better for it if they do make it happen.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

I think it'll be a massive failure in Pakistan. Reason being that even if some casual viewer is watching PSL and doesn't understand the rules, he or she can have the rules explained to them by someone who is an avid watcher of watcher.

When I imagine The Hundred in Pakistan, I imagine both people trying to understand the rules.

The Hundred can be very successful in England, but I would appreciate it if the concept stays in England. T20 works well enough for everyone else. And the reason the tournament was started in the first place was largely due to reasons specific to England.

I mean I've seen a number of games and I still find the scoreboard jarring at times. And haven't gotten used to it at all. Especially when I open mid-match and it takes me a moment to make sense of whats going on

 

[Giannis]

The scorecard is confusing and I still don't get the rules, I don't think Pakistanis would take well to it. Perhaps it would work for the Olympics but do we really want this disney format to represent the rich legacy and heritage of cricket?

 

[Shariq7]

Do the bowlers change ends only after every 10 balls? If so, can the bowler bowl the second set of 5, and then the third set of 5 from two different ends? And why can't we call an over an over instead of a set of 5?

 

[BunnyRabbit]

It's confusing. The 5 balls overs and the 10 ball one, I am still not able to properly comprehend the rules.

T20 is fine as it is. Think it will fail in Pak. Although I hate t10, but t10 has more chance of being successful than the hundred.

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

No. Their are too many formats as it is. Test, ODI, T-20, T-10.

 

[OmarKhan99]

We don't really require an equivalent of the Hundred in Pak. The ECB had a clear goal of attracting school kids back to cricket. They've clearly identified that there is a growing lack of interest in the sport in their parts, and they wanted to come up with something flashy to get people watching again. I don't think they've even tried to claim/justify that the Hundred would be beneficial in developing their current cricketers.

The people in Pakistan, on the other hand, don't really need any further encouragement to pick up cricket as a sport. Some might even argue that cricket is too much of a singular focus in Pakistan and that it's diluting talent from other sporting pools. For instance, someone with the physique and agility of Umaid Asif would've been quite natural for a sport like Volleyball.

Plenty of interest in Cricket in Pakistan. PCB and the Sports' ministry just need to get the basics right. Set up comprehensive cricket development programmes that are embedded in schools, set up academies with decent equipment, and continue in its pursuit to get Intl cricket back home. Everything else will take care of itself.

 

[dildilpak]

As it is there is too much emphasis on T20 cricket in Pakistan, to the extent we are lacking quality players who can play the longer formats. The format perhaps make for good entertainment but does absolutely nothing for the development of skills of cricketers. And while i maybe proved wrong if ‘The hundred’ becomes really popular in the future, it just seems like a even more flashier version of T20 with a few tweaks. Thanks but no thanks.

 

[street cricketer]

No.

I personally don't mind the idea of the Hundred itself and think it might even work in the Olympics. But there's no better chance than now for the subcontinent fans to do a bit of moral posturing at the English after being subjected to endless amount of moral lecturing for years in the way to play the game by the English in terms of quality of pitches, reverse swing, match fixing allegations, etc.

If a similar tournament had been started by the asian nations instead of England, all those English commentators who are now singing the praises of the Hundred would've dismissed the idea as a circus gimmick and one that's destroying the game.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

I think 50 Will be better, I like the concept of every balls being counted. Before we were kids we had time to even watch test cricket, nowadays don't even get time to watch Odi cricket. 50 will be good for the working class human beings

 

[Saj]

I sincerely hope not.

What next 70 80 90. Where does it end.

 

[Babbar]

Imagine having a super exciting quick 21-ball match. 7 bowlers each with three bowls! like Badminton or TT match.

Seven batters playing 3 or less balls each! Each boundary shot to be counted as 6,7,8,9 even 12 depending on the distance covered - 90+ ft 9 runs 110+ ft, -11 runs and so on.

People will come to watch this. 5 matches in 2 hours. Who has patience for slow booooooring T20I these days.

 

[silentkiller187]

Imagine having a super exciting quick 21-ball match. 7 bowlers each with three bowls! like Badminton or TT match.

Seven batters playing 3 or less balls each! Each boundary shot to be counted as 6,7,8,9 even 12 depending on the distance covered - 90+ ft 9 runs 110+ ft, -11 runs and so on.

People will come to watch this. 5 matches in 2 hours. Who has patience for slow booooooring T20I these days.

maximum of 3 balls to bowl and bat, better of making a new sport mate, ECB should have just changed their t20 blast to a city tournament with a few rule changes, i.e. one bowler can bowl 2 overs consecutively etc. would have been much better. All these new formats will kill the integrity of the game.

 

[AdamM97]

The Hundred will destroy cricket if it’s played internationally but it’s entertaining and actually watchable for people who aren’t ardent cricket fans. If anything, it can revive the popularity of cricket in places like England. I’m all for having a a hundred ball PSL tournament but that’s about it. There shouldn’t be an international tournament based on it nor should it be played in international series between different nations.

 

[MenInG]

So any items that PCB can use?

David Gower said this recently:

“If the IPL were to adopt that one idea from The Hundred, which is to penalize the fielding side if they’re too slow, with field placing, that would make a difference to any game. So maybe that’s one of the good ideas to come out of The Hundred"

 

[Varun]

I personally think there is no place for T20 and The Hundred together in international cricket.

Either merge them into 'The Hundred' or stick with T20s. Merging into The Hundred has one advantage that the time for a given match gets reduced to roughly 3 hours only.

Nah, introduce a 110 ball compromise.

Let the 3 formats - the Hundred, T10 and the 'OneTen' kill each other.

 

[ElRaja]

So any items that PCB can use?

David Gower said this recently:

“If the IPL were to adopt that one idea from The Hundred, which is to penalize the fielding side if they’re too slow, with field placing, that would make a difference to any game. So maybe that’s one of the good ideas to come out of The Hundred"

totally agree, either dock the fielders, or however many overs u bowl in the allotted time is how many overs u get to chase the score.

time keeping in cricket is terrible.

even in test matches, there should be some way to force teams to bowl 15 overs an hour every session.

 

[Varun]

I find The Hundred to be a mechanism the ECB used to try and gain relevance because their local fanbase wasn't really showing up to games, and as a result, a lot of their stadiums needed revenue to support themselves.

Nobody really watched the Vitality Blast, so they hoped that this innovation would help them at least bring in some revenue.

Nah, that's not the reason. That's just typical ECB marketing.

The ECB did want to 'revitalize' the Vitality Blast, but when they approached the BBC for potential free-to-air coverage, they were told that they could only fit it into a ~3hr (or so) slot, rendering a conventional T20 impossible. So they came up with this ridiculous idea of twiddling with the format of the game by introducing a one-off 10-ball over and the like.

This is pretty much like when Sky were paid for 7 guaranteed tests starting around 2006, and the ECB marketed themselves as caring for test cricket - which particularly came to the fore during the early days of the IPL where the likes of Lankan and Kiwi players were happy to stay at the IPL in the May period when those teams typically would head for 2 or 3-test tours of England.

TL;DR: don't fall for the PR. The ECB (along with chumps like David Lloyd) will run where the money is.

 

[Babbar]

I do feel that if Hundreds have to become really popular in any country, it will be Pakistan. Same holds true for T10, T5 etc.

 

[JattMaula]

Why not?

Might help freshen things up.

 

[Last Monetarist]

even in test matches, there should be some way to force teams to bowl 15 overs an hour every session.

A 5-run penalty for each over that the bowling team are short of the allotted number at the end of a day's play will sort that out in a moment.

 

[ElRaja]

A 5-run penalty for each over that the bowling team are short of the allotted number at the end of a day's play will sort that out in a moment.

thats what i was thinking. but icc dont care, teams just dawdle along like its a park game.

 

[FreePalestine]

We already have the PSL. We do not need The Hundred.

 

[iniqbal223]

More than 100

PCB Must start , their U-19 / U-16 Jr. PSL tournament, so that everyone can watch who are the real deal youngsters rather than getting embarrassed at international level

 

[tahir_dj]

Pakistan can have
PSL in Feb March

Hundreds in oct nov


So in that way we can look forward to both