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ChilcoSaint said:
Oh for ****’s sake, that makes no sense whatsoever!
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Still the same as this season (and the last two seasons).

All that is happening is that the 8-10 split is being reversed to 10-8. But all 18 sides still have 7 home and 7 away matches.

Counties complained that the 8-10 split meant that relegation from D1 had become too big a risk (which it had - the last two years have been a case of musical chairs for 7th place). By reducing that risk, counties/captains can take bigger risks now on the field; sacrifice the odd draw, in an attempt to win. Which should lead to more exciting cricket. When survival is on the line, you can't really do that.

And ditching the 100 wouldn't really be an answer to playing 18 D1 matches, because the 100 isn't using up its own section of the county schedule. It's being played at the same time as the one-day cup.
 
st_brendy said:
Still the same as this season (and the last two seasons).

All that is happening is that the 8-10 split is being reversed to 10-8. But all 18 sides still have 7 home and 7 away matches.

Counties complained that the 8-10 split meant that relegation from D1 had become too big a risk (which it had - the last two years have been a case of musical chairs for 7th place). By reducing that risk, counties/captains can take bigger risks now on the field; sacrifice the odd draw, in an attempt to win. Which should lead to more exciting cricket. When survival is on the line, you can't really do that.

And ditching the 100 wouldn't really be an answer to playing 18 D1 matches, because the 100 isn't using up its own section of the county schedule. It's being played at the same time as the one-day cup.
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Lets hope we avoid going to Somerset and Essex next season. :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Middlesex doing themselves proud yet again. 39/6 having dismissed Lancashire for 250 odd. Something is not right there for that county to produce such inept batting performances year after year, Deserve the wooden spoon!!!
 
Somerset have lost 3 wickets already this morning. To my mind it is a farce playing in the third and fourth week of September due to number of overs lost because of bad light up and down the country, and the clatter of wickets due to the prevailing conditions on these autumnal mornings. Time for the ECB to reschedule the County Championship and have it concluded by the end of the first week in September. I am sure if we trawl through the playingschedule of each county in June, July and August many had a week´s idleness, often two during this period.
 
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