England Cricket Board is run by buffoons - conclusive proof!

[putrevus]

1 minute ago, sandeep said:

This is what happens when a bunch of old farts get in a room, don't have a clue, and are under pressure to come up with "exciting" changes.  Each oldie is afraid to say no to new ideas, afraid that he's going to be seen as the one who's out of touch and not gutsy enough.  Road to $hitty decisions is paved with cowardice.  

There is nothing cowardice in it .As someone pointed out T20 was really ECB's brain child but IPL has taken that idea to a different level.But this is pure nonsense.

 

Franchise cricket will never work in England.Counties have such deep roots there and why is ECB hell bent on harming its own counties by promoting this nonsense if its true.

[sandeep]

10 minutes ago, putrevus said:

There is nothing cowardice in it .As someone pointed out T20 was really ECB's brain child but IPL has taken that idea to a different level.But this is pure nonsense.

 

Franchise cricket will never work in England.Counties have such deep roots there and why is ECB hell bent on harming its own counties by promoting this nonsense if its true.

Its bigtime cowardice,  coupled with ineptitude.   The ECB chairman is running the board like a fiefdom.  And all the other board officials are intimidated by him to follow his diktats.  Those who don't go along are "resigning".   In such an environment, the leftover babus are under pressure to come up with "cutting edge" plans to take cricket forward to "new audiences".   You need to have balls to speak up in a meeting and say that a proposed idea is stupid.   

 

[Sachinism]

Jesus! They're doubling down on the craziness.

 

They're so desperate to bring new to people to cricket, they're forgetting what cricket actually is.

 

Like the game isn't complicated enough, let's make it even more confusing. 

[coffee_rules]

How about four 5 over innings? hehe

[Nikhil_cric]

I'm actually reminded of what Niranjan Shah, then Secretary of the BCCI, said in an ICC board meeting way back in 2006 when BCCI opposed the World T20 by questioning sarcastically "Why not 10-10, 5-5 or 1-1 cricket"? That time BCCI got outvoted 10-1 and finally caved in and accepted the new format. So who knows? Maybe this is the next big thing in cricket. One thing is for certain. If the ECB are hell bent on introducing this format to cricket's detriment, they will go to any extent to get it done as history shows us.  

[Scar]

I think the major idea behind this crazy facade version of cricket is to end the game within 3 hours. From only that perspective, it seems like an innovative idea to me.