I didn't know that, thanks for pointing that out, I'll take a look.
The County Champonship radio coverage is quite good, and in some cases aligned to a livestream of that match. If only the BBC could also provide commentary of all the Metro Bank One Day Cup games? Sadly only two of the six games played on Tuesday were broadcast through the BBC website.
The County Champonship radio coverage is quite good, and in some cases aligned to a livestream of that match. If only the BBC could also provide commentary of all the Metro Bank One Day Cup games? Sadly only two of the six games played on Tuesday were broadcast through the BBC website.
This site https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/ is far better for following a county game than cricinfo, and for one-day games often shows the DLS requirement as you go along! Also contains clips of wickets, fours and sixes if you aren't following on youtube.They were all on YouTube again however! I appreciate the BBCs support to County Cricket (and it's generally how I follow along as I find Cricinfo increasingly commercial and useless) but the Counties embracing YouTube over Covid really has been transformational to following the sport.
Meant we got to watch Ben Stokes hitting a ton in the red headed stepchild of cricket that is the One Day Cup on the opening day of the Hundred to steal the headlines for at least a little while from the ECBs darling. Which was very pleasant
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I see the England men fixtures have been released for next season:
Ashes 2027 fixtures: England-Australia men's and women's series to start in June
Neither Old Trafford nor Headingley will host a men's Ashes Test between England and Australia next summer.
Visits from Australia, Bangla Desh, Pakistan & New Zealand
Noticeably not many fixtures in the North of England, hopefully at least one of these countries will play in Belfast as part of their warm up.
To be fair, this isn't news - it was announced three years ago which grounds would be used for the 2027 Ashes, and those for 2031 were announced at the same time (Edgbaston misses out then).
I don't think that Lord's should be untouchable to the extent of staging 3 test matches in just over a month. Although if this summer's Lord's test is anything to go by they'll be lucky to get 10 days play over those three matches.
There's a strong possibility that Australia will be playing 6 tests during their visit to these shores. It's just that one will be the World Test Championship, and England won't be their opponents!
The north Doesn't finish at Leeds - We only get 1 ODI and 1 T20 at Durham. Shocking.
Yeah we normally get a Women's international (I know not everyone's cup of tea) to at least get three internationals a season but next year because of the Women's Ashes we also miss out on that so just two international fixtures.
yeah pretty much so.
Oh same, I didn't make it to any of the women's side of the double headers this year but I did get to the international which was a good day out and I'll probably go to the Women's test at Headingley next year.
Maybe that xenophobic ECB decision-making is just the type that Andy Burnham is striving to end...
'Limited' is doing a remarkable amount of heavy lifting there
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I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, growing the market for Test cricket in the worlds largest cricket market is surely a good thing for the best format of the game. But it would need to be a one-off Test outside of the regular Ashes sequence for me (a bit like the Test planned in Melbourne next year to celebrate 150 years since the first Test between England and Australia). It would be madness if it was part of an Ashes series!Away from the ECB, and their shenanigans, we have this from.the Aussies.
England vs Australia: Ashes rivals should be open to playing a Test in India, says Todd Greenberg
England and Australia should be open to the idea of playing a Test match in India to help generate interest in the format, says the chief executive of Cricket Australia.
Indian test cricket grounds don't fill up even for test matches involving the home side, so I struggle to see what would be achieved by playing an England v Australia test in India. Financially, ticket prices would be so low that no real money would be made and it's of no great benefit for TV coverage in either country (OK, good for TV in India, but how many would watch?). And as for the guff about growing global appeal, wouldn't it be better to look to new markets?
As we all know the (B)ICC controls international cricket, and the rest of the main cricket boards merely brown tongue them for attention. We've seen this investment more recently with the Hundred. However, that cash injection hasn't necessarily increased the popularity or attendances at these type of games.
Absolutely, whilst I'm not instantly opposed to the idea in the broad sense (as long as it's a special one-off not part of an actual Ashes series!!). I really don't see how it actually achieves the goals stated however.
In fairness they were in tremendous voice at Durham for the IT20 there a month or so ago. It almost felt like they were the home crowd at some points they were so noisy. Made for a fantastic atmosphere. Though it was also quite amusing that when England scored in the football (as there was a World Cup match at the same time) cheers rang out from those same Indian supporters for that as well
How long is a piece of string? It would be impossible to calculate such a range due the variety of operators that fly between the UK and India (as well as interchange opportunties in places like Amsterdam, Frankfurt and the UAE) along with the range of hotel accommodations in a large Indian city. Quite a lot of research would be required or the services of a travel agency if someone wished to avoid doing their own legwork.
Compared to the price of watching all 5 days of a home test, with travel and accomodation thrown in, going to India could easily be cheaper.
It really isn't that difficult. I've done quite a few overseas trips for cricket and mostly booked the various parts myself.
Think we paid 25p for a T20 World Cup T20 game in Kandy -- our 'seats' were described as being a spot on a grassy knoll 
I am very tempted to put in for the ballot for LordsI see the England men fixtures have been released for next season:
Ashes 2027 fixtures: England-Australia men's and women's series to start in June
Neither Old Trafford nor Headingley will host a men's Ashes Test between England and Australia next summer.
Visits from Australia, Bangla Desh, Pakistan & New Zealand
Noticeably not many fixtures in the North of England, hopefully at least one of these countries will play in Belfast as part of their warm up.
Whereas Root is proven as a clueless captain, with his batting suffering as well.
Who would you suggest?