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Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

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2 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Graham Thorpe has  passed away aged 55.

 

Had been unwell for sometime .

 

Very sad obviously.

 

One of the mainstays of the England team in the 90s and usually the one saving it .


Probably one of the best .

Superb player. So sad to hear of his passing at such a young age. RIP Thorpey.

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Izzy

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Thorpe was a joy to watch, reminded me of Gower when he was in full flow. Very sad news and only a few years older than me. 

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I presume that means they'll give Jordan Cox a go and play 4 seamers (meaning Bashir will get dropped). Lawrence then goes as the spinner.

 

Demonstrates how unique Stokes is to everything. Be a big test to see how they go without him. Gutted for him.

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39 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Doubt they'll care as long as it happened during their lame duck vanity project.

They will be genuinely more bothered he will miss this than the Test series.

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Super_horns

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35 minutes ago, Lionator said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13734379/amp/graham-thorpe-took-life-wife-reveals.html
 

awful, I hope he is at peace now 

Poor guy suffering like that .

 

And his family obviously .

 

I know he was coaching but did this all occur after he stopped and then struggled with coping about not being involved in the game ?

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Paninistickers

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Got this shite on for the first time this summer. 

 

Ok, I'm never gonna be persuaded but the tv coverage and the sporting jeopardy is absolute shite. Total absolute shite. It's cricket Susan Whelan would invent. 

 

It really ain't that hard to revive/win new interest in cricket. 

 

JUST.STICK.T20.ON.MAINSTREAM.TV. 

 

 

 

 

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Lol, now there's some (pretty decent) indie band on at half time playing to a bemused audience who aren't taking a.blind bit of notice. 

 

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Lol, literally zero applause.

 

To give this some context tho, it's equivalent to that **** Agnew having a bowling net session on stage prior to the band doing a gig at the Brixton Academy 

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24 minutes ago, Corky said:

Mate, this will save English cricket. Indian billionaires are queueing up to buy this.

Tell me the business model. Nobody is interested in this thing. The money men are looking, for sure. Problem is, they are looking but can't see how to monetise it. It's bankrupt, in every sense. 

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4 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Tell me the business model. Nobody is interested in this thing. The money men are looking, for sure. Problem is, they are looking but can't see how to monetise it. It's bankrupt, in every sense. 

It's bollocks. These teams play for three weeks a year. They don't own the grounds. They don't own the players. Not all the best players play in it. Tickets are given away. 

 

You will never make it a huge thing in this country. Cricket isn't the most popular sport and we have no idea about the true levels of fanbase.

 

I genuinely cannot believe the ECB have gone all in on this, to the point of moving The Ashes, the biggest series in the game, to accommodate it. And now they want Indian businessmen to basically take it over.

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27 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Tell me the business model. Nobody is interested in this thing. The money men are looking, for sure. Problem is, they are looking but can't see how to monetise it. It's bankrupt, in every sense. 

I’ve been to one game and the actual in ground production is decent and a step up from county cricket. However the format is crap, and all the other issues surrounding it means that it will lose fans eventually rather than gain them

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