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Hello, good afternoon, I hope you’re well, looking after yourselves and are in good health. Sports fans, we need to talk about sports, to be more precise, cricket.

Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the UK, arguably second to only football, but in recent years the game is under attack.

The English Cricket Board (ECB) which is responsible for ensuring the good health of the domestic game, have been at loggerheads with certain

Counties with ways that the game can be revamped and improved.
That’s the thing, one side of the argument is one extreme and the other side goes completely 180 the other way.

It’s simple why the domestic game needs revamping, it’s due to something called The Hundred. This tournament, which has been designed to bring new audiences to the game, is something I don’t like.

The fundamental rules of the game have been changed. In cricket, there will always be, or should be six balls in an over, and bowlers alternate around that.

To bowl two overs in a row or sets as they call, is absurd. The traditionalists, all the ones I have spoken to, just can’t subscribe to it.
At every ground, there’s always music played, which makes me think is this a concert or a fine game of cricket?

Even the graphics, just about sums up how badly organisers have got it wrong. Let’s not talk about the score card too. Our friends Down Under in Australia have their unique way of presenting score card, but The Hundred essentially said, no no, I will raise you 200 times worse.

Cricket has certain traditions that need to be upheld surely! If the new generation can’t grasp it, that’s not a cricket problem.

Test cricket and ODI cricket they’re the staples of the game. There are no buts, simply because if there was no Test cricket or ODI cricket, no other format would have been able to establish itself.

These two formats are the pillars and foundations of the great game. It’s fair to say that The Hundred format is something, I am not a fan of.

Naturally, then, there should be a solution. Quite simply is that, if you must persist with it then make the tournament have the same rules as the Olympics.

Three senior players are over 23, and the rest should be youngsters. In football they have the Papa John’s Trophy, cricket should try something similar.

In tennis, women have three sets and men five. Cricket should capitalise on this with the younger players.

One-hundred balls aside and all the other rules the same, except for being able to bowl two sets in a row.

I am trying, I am. Avid readers of the-sports-buff.com know this is an annual article, I could literally edit a few bits from the article and press send.

The Hundred, on an already packed calendar, helps who exactly? Yes, you might gain but think what you will lose too.

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