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The Hundred: Demise or Suprise? · Aug 25, 2021 · 41 min

6. Battle lines drawn

We made it. The first season of The Hundred is in the books, so Kit and Matt run through an extensive list of winners and losers to work out what we can take from the last month of cricket. We won’t know for a while whether the tournament’s moderate success is enough to change the game for the better but, at this stage, one thing is for certain: revolution beckons. TOPICS: Women’s cricket (3:46) The Hundred crowds (8:33) The format, the structure, and the franchises (11:57) The fading 50-over game (20:30) The impact on test cricket (26:10) A KP (not the nuts) argument and Liam Livingstone’s WG Grace vibes (30:29) Final thoughts (35:17) MUSIC: Pod.co, 'One Fine Day'

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We made it. The first season of The Hundred is in the books, so Kit and Matt run through an extensive list of winners and losers to work out what we can take from the last month of cricket. We won’t know for a while whether the tournament’s moderate success is enough to change the game for the better but, at this stage, one thing is for certain: revolution beckons.

TOPICS:

Women’s cricket (3:46)

The Hundred crowds (8:33)

The format, the structure, and the franchises (11:57)

The fading 50-over game (20:30)

The impact on test cricket (26:10)

A KP (not the nuts) argument and Liam Livingstone’s WG Grace vibes (30:29)

Final thoughts (35:17)


MUSIC: Pod.co, 'One Fine Day'

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