studio150
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Expect players to be in 5 jumpers, and the crowd to still be in winter coats
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[Cricket] Sussex start 2019 season on 5 April
- Thread starter studio150
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So because the football season starts in the middle of the cricket season and then stops, starts and splutters to Xmas before getting going, and as soon as it does my mind gets ready for the new cricket season with me already bought test match tickets for next summer and the county fixtures now out...I must admit my mojo for football is starting to take very much a back seat !!
April in Sussex can be glorious...not so sure about Durham though!!
April in Sussex can be glorious...not so sure about Durham though!!
Sussex Nomad
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Not being an aficionado on cricket fixtures, why do we only play Leicestershire, Lancs, Derbyshire and Glamorgan once?
crowd?
Because the cricket authorities are utterly clueless over how best to run the game. This nonsense is just the tip of the iceberg.
blue-shifted
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It’s to do with the number of fixtures we have. Mucking around with the integrity of the league system is the sure sign of a sport of a slippery slope.
5th April?? Ridiculous? Cricket season should start about a month after that.
In a sea of badly run sports cricket is surely the worst run of all.
5th April?? Ridiculous? Cricket season should start about a month after that.
In a sea of badly run sports cricket is surely the worst run of all.
Like the Goodwood members meeting. . . . It'll be snowing.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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Because the players would burn out for the 20/20's and one dayers where all the cash is. There are not enough days in the summer to fit it all in.
jakarta
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One (ONE!!!) County game in both July and August, the height of Summer. And people wonder why cricket is dying.
Smith DID score
formerly Harvey's Best
Could be all the T20 matches in July and August?.........FULL fixture list attached.View attachment scl_fixtures_2019_1.pdf
I need to state here that I know nothing about cricket.
But looking at that fixture list in the original post, it appears Sussex play some sides home and away, and others just away or just home. How does that work? Genuine question from a non-cricket person.
But looking at that fixture list in the original post, it appears Sussex play some sides home and away, and others just away or just home. How does that work? Genuine question from a non-cricket person.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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Don't worry, cricket will be safe as long as they keep innovating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_T10_Cricket_League
I'm still not sure if this is an elaborate hoax.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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Simply ridiculous.
A high number of CC games now played in April and September to accomodate the spawn of the Devil in high summer. Yes, I know it brings the money in but to a purist and cricket lover like me, it is an abomination. A slog-fest that degrades and humiliates decent bowlers and upgrades certain players with a lack of technical ability.
A high number of CC games now played in April and September to accomodate the spawn of the Devil in high summer. Yes, I know it brings the money in but to a purist and cricket lover like me, it is an abomination. A slog-fest that degrades and humiliates decent bowlers and upgrades certain players with a lack of technical ability.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Rose-tinted glasses alert: my childhood memories (mid 1960s)feature me virtually living at the country ground during the school holidays.
Frankie
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How can Middlesex and Lancashire be in Division 2 , i thought they were 2 of the 5 Teams that wanted to form a merged league where the minnows of county cricket such as Sussex and Kent were swallowed up by the cricketing giants of England / Wales , must be a typo .
Burn out - huh! I hate that phrase! Back in the 50s they played two 3-day matches a week, and on Sundays would turn out for a friendly against a local club. I remember as a kid getting a free tea for working the scoreboard one Sunday at The Rec in Polegate when Sussex came to town.
.......and some of them still managed to turn out for The Albion too!
vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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Ah but that was in the days when it was bad form for fielders to either run after or dive for a ball, as I recall if the ball went 5 yards either side of them it was acceptable to jog to the boundary to collect it ?
Garry Nelson's teacher
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And the only televised TV cricket on a Sunday was the (Rothmans?) International Cavaliers...……………….On the Sunday games against club sides these were usually (always?) Benefit Matches. One of my mates, a very good club cricketer from Yorkshire, once took 6 for 42 in such a game against the county team. It was the happiest day of his life!
Garry Nelson's teacher
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PS These games went on until advent of the John Player* Sunday League in the late 60s.
*which featured John Player promotional girls handing out fags to anyone who asked
*which featured John Player promotional girls handing out fags to anyone who asked
That takes me back. My first visit to the County Ground was to see the Cavaliers v Sussex. I saw Trevor Bailey hit a mighty six over the bowler's head; I didn't know of Bailey's reputation as a blocker and how rare such a shot was.
I was hooked from then on.