Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

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I quite enjoyed last night's venture into The Hundred. It was competitive up until the last 10 balls or so. It's not cricket though. Kids doing Mexican waves and people whipping up the crowd aren't really me...I'm too old and grumpy.

The major impression was what a massive money spinner the whole thing is. The Oval was PACKED! As it's impossible to park and public transport is so good, the bars were doing major business, as were the food stalls. The drinks were ****ing expensive too - I paid £14 for a pint of IPA and an underwhelming pint of cider. I settled for a bag of peanuts for m'dinner.

The best bit of the evening was meeting an old mate in the bar beforehand. He always had a 'major thing' for Mrs B...and despite putting some time and effort into impressing her, never got anywhere. Eventually he packed up his disappointment and married a child 13 years his junior...who is now divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners <laugh>

Do the Germans have a word for schadenfreude?
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
I quite enjoyed last night's venture into The Hundred. It was competitive up until the last 10 balls or so. It's not cricket though. Kids doing Mexican waves and people whipping up the crowd aren't really me...I'm too old and grumpy.

The major impression was what a massive money spinner the whole thing is. The Oval was PACKED! As it's impossible to park and public transport is so good, the bars were doing major business, as were the food stalls. The drinks were ****ing expensive too - I paid £14 for a pint of IPA and an underwhelming pint of cider. I settled for a bag of peanuts for m'dinner.

The best bit of the evening was meeting an old mate in the bar beforehand. He always had a 'major thing' for Mrs B...and despite putting some time and effort into impressing her, never got anywhere. Eventually he packed up his disappointment and married a child 13 years his junior...who is now divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners <laugh>

Do the Germans have a word for schadenfreude?
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My big problem with the hundred is way that a number of cricketing words and terms have been discarded to apparently help those new to cricket understand what's going on - despite the fact that this leaves cricket followers confused.
Not a problem if you're watching live. You need to be more concerned about where Will Jacks is hitting the ball so your £7 pint doesn't get spilled
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
My big problem with the hundred is way that a number of cricketing words and terms have been discarded to apparently help those new to cricket understand what's going on - despite the fact that this leaves cricket followers confused.
Not a problem if you're watching live. You need to be more concerned about where Will Jacks is hitting the ball so your £7 pint doesn't get spilled
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It's modern day 'Bread & Circuses'...
Watering down for the hard of understanding with a short attention span! <laugh>
 
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It makes me think of going to watch a 4 way tournament (Middx, Surrey, Kent and Essex), in a very similar vein to the Hundred, at Selhurst Park, in the mid-80's when Palace were absolutely ****ing skint and would do anything for a few quid (including selling their away end to J Sainsbury). Me and a mate sat in the middle of The Holmsdale terrace, on a pleasant summer evening, and watched Chris Tavare smash the ball all over the place, in complete wonderment. Kent made the final but I think that they lost...possibly to Essex.

I've tried to find details of this event on the internet, with no success but I swear it happened.
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It seems that I'm not the only one to have this very strange memory...

"My wierdest non-Palace memory of SP was a four team, 7-a-side, 10-over cricket competition there under lights in the very early 80s. I think the teams involved were Kent, Surrey, Sussex and probably Middlesex.

I don't remember too much about it, except for Chris Tavare knocking five 6s and a four off the same over. Kent still lost, though."

https://www.cpfc.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-42144.html

...he must have been on the same drug regimen as me. <cheers>
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
It makes me think of going to watch a 4 way tournament (Middx, Surrey, Kent and Essex), in a very similar vein to the Hundred, at Selhurst Park, in the mid-80's when Palace were absolutely ****ing skint and would do anything for a few quid (including selling their away end to J Sainsbury). Me and a mate sat in the middle of The Holmsdale terrace, on a pleasant summer evening, and watched Chris Tavare smash the ball all over the place, in complete wonderment. Kent made the final but I think that they lost...possibly to Essex.

I've tried to find details of this event on the internet, with no success but I swear it happened.
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The Lambert and Butler cup.
 
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