Jack Rule

It doesn’t stop them bowling no balls though.
Same argument is made with free hits in white ball cricket.

Congratulations!!

Not like cricket to keep things simple!!

The problem I have with the numbers is they take the women’s number somewhere around the 2nd innings of the match, when often a number of people have come in to get food etc but not actually there for the game.

That’s very true.

Think it’s more I don’t like the 2 for a no ball.

Time to stop having no balls count as 2 runs!!!

Amazes me why they ever thought that was a good thing to do

You’re not going to get that, as the parents who will take their kids are at the clubs playing cricket!

And the clubs need the people in to be spending money in order to survive.

Saturdays always have the bad drop offs in game attendances.

Sunday is the better day but you have to do 2 day games

Saturdays will never get good crowds in double headers as the vast majority of club cricket it played on a Saturday.

Start in April and end in September then.

23rd April Women started this year, the Men started on the 4th

They don’t have multi day cricket to schedule in, it’s very easily done.

And if you have to cut games, which I don’t believe they do , you cut the format that doesn’t get people watching.

That loss puts Welsh Fire women all but out of the tournament now.
They would have to win all of their next 5 games to progress

Given they still have Brave to play twice and Oval Invincibles, seems unlikely to happen.

Shocking really given where they were last year

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Just imagine how much lower that would have been if they had reviewed the Matthews wicket when she was on 0

That is Welsh Fires lowest ever total for both Men and Women

Previous lowest

Women - 94 all out against Northern Superchargers earlier this comp

Men- 87 all out against Brave in 2023

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Mahika Gaur bowls out in the Powerplay

20 balls, 10 runs, 2 wickets

The only female bowler to do so, and first time in the Women’s Hundred.

Joining Dan Worrall from London Spirit men in 2023

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Beth Mooney captaincy strikes once again.

That indecisiveness has just cost Originals another wicket!!

And it would have been a huge wicket of Matthews.

Please can we get rid of her as captain, she really isn’t very good as skipper.

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Don’t worry those of us at Lancs have been questioning there commitment to the womens game.

They say that they are committed and want to have a WPL team but I’m not convinced and leaves a lot to be desired right now.

Magic Meeks strikes again

10 balls, 3 runs, 2 wickets

Absolute brilliant superstar

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And given the reduced number of games now, you can bet your bottom dollar no club is going to put women on second and loose out on that revenue

And how many left when it was the women?
That’s the important bit, I’ve been a many games where the women play second and people have left stating “it’s only the women let’s go now”

There is absolutely no reason why both formats should not have a proper Home and Away format.

Any reason is just poor excuses for it.

And if the ODC is the “Crown Jewels” then why reduce the knockout stages down to 1 semi final? It’s all absolute BS from the ECB

Why they are playing one day games against NZ in early may is silly. They should be playing blast then.

Playing one day games after the one day World Cup and not before and then no T20 before the T20 WC just sums it all up

Can guarantee they will be rested due to the “workload” they have had after the World Cup and before The Hundred.

The new owners are already saying they expect all England players, playing all Hundred games, therefore it’s the Blast that will suffer.

Well that’s a whole other issue about if the right teams are the ones being moved up or not.

We can’t have anything nice anymore.

I look forward to hearing them.

With the greatest respect appointment to view it’s marketing BS!

What’s a better experience is players actually playing infront of crowds, not reducing the numbers down.

Speak to players, they don’t want equality they want equity and these changes aren’t doing that.

You can still play internationals. But how you picking that team without any games to look at?

But you still need to to build the momentum for the WC,
You can beat your money they won’t play between the WC and the Hundred!

I repeat
Why does it have to match the men and be a single block?

Why when you have a World Cup would you decide to play none of that format before the World Cup begins??

16 T20s either side of the World Cup (8+8 maybe), you gather momentum and then build on the WC after.

I do look forward to hearing the thoughts of @rafnicholson.bsky.social
@crickether.com and others on this.

To say at the moment I’m really annoyed is abit of an understatement

I will note that while all the reviews of the mens structure has been put to counties to vote on etc (with a lot of division I admit)

Nothing has been put to county members about the womens restructure, and with Project Darwin, these are technically county sides now, reporting to county members!

Trying to grow the game and you keep changing the goal posts.

Growing the game doesn’t mean always doing what the men do!!

I mean are they genuinely trying to destroy the womens game, and have they actually spoken to anyone that follows the game.