HUNDRED REASONS IT’S NOT CRICKET!

EVEN after a few weeks slow digestion ‘The Hundred’ still brings on dyspepsia.
I’m still not sure what it is. Is it a bribe to attract those who didn’t like cricket by alienating those who do? Or is it a marketing man’s radical solution to get a neatly wrapped game inside a three-hour television window with no spillover?
Maybe it is a ruse to make T20 look anachronistic, an attempt to dilute the incredibly popular Indian Premier League and Big Bash. Whatever it is, though, it isn’t cricket and this fact seems to be stumping its inventors as m...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

Already a subscriber to our website? Login