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After the mayor’s show comes, there will be a cart to clean up all the Horseshit. That is at least a completely different thing than what preceded it, instead of just a shorter version of the same that is therefore much more limited. In that sense, the hundred can sometimes feel an even bigger step in entertainment than the final example of something like that.
We have said before that we have no specific burning hatred for the hundred. It is still cricket and we love cricket. At the same time, it is rare that we have felt so shocking because of the sport as when this year’s competition started less than 24 hours after an unusually good five-test series between England and India.
> Do you want to explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for the hundred
It was a struggle that showed the distant size of the test format, and emphasized his incredible open-endness, the endless different ways in which players can approach the unfolding situations and the inability to reliably predict how each match will work.
Ben Duckett chased 371 and left at a sprint and tried to score a ball at a run. Ravindra Jadeja chased 193 to win, stayed behind with the tail and was reduced to scoring on one point and one.
Harry Brook accused Jasprit Bumrah, Shubman Gill made endless hundreds, Chris Woakes went out with just one work arm and Ben Stokes and Mohammed Siraj embraced every experience offered.
To be honest, it was dizzy for a few weeks. The legend wants the Kangxi -Keizer to held in the 17th century that six banquets existed in three days and contained more than 300 dishes – but even that would have taken even less time to digest than this.
Nevertheless, looking at the cricket page of the BBC the day after the series ended, you had trouble knowing that it had even happened. Balk a reference to the shoulder of Woakes, everything was pushed the page through the following.
Life continues and the sport is fundamental of the moment, but this felt like a rough and unexpectedly an old friend hurrying out at an artificial deadline that they were not aware of at all.
The effect was the effect that that was next.
Each. Ball. Counts.
It’s fine, it’s fun and there are some good moments, but like all shorter sizes, the hundred are built around narrowing. It is deliberately designed to push players to try the same few things, time and time again. Fours and Sixes are of course entertaining, but when the circumstance makes them anything but mandatory, it is a bit deterred from the excitement.
If you would dive through some of the defensive interviews with ECB executives looking for an explanation why the summer is planned in this way, you would find vague comments about using the momentum via a more spectators-friendly format.
It’s not a crazy idea. It is probably a better gamble than to bring the children to day three of a provincial championship match, but it is also inevitable, not as exciting or as big as that thing that was going on last week.
As such, we don’t see ourselves the hundred as a burning futuristic border, but more a nice, disposable exhibition where you might pop up to catch a glimpse of Harry Brook in the hope that he might hit some of those shots.
It is reminiscent of the weird phenomenon of the post-tour de France criterion. A few weeks after the tour ends, all the main characters from the race of that year participate in a large number of circuit races, so that fans can see them and have a little fun. They are not serious races – in fact the results are usually resolved – but the riders go fast and they set up a show. It is foam, but a lot of Belgians get a few beers and a nice night out.
We do not say that the hundred has been rigged. It is more that in a year like this, when a particularly good at all has preceded it, the comparison looks rather light.
However, not every spectacle requires a passionate investment from its audience. We all need a bit of a breath from time to time. There are worse ways to pass an afternoon.
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