Former England captain and commentator, Michael Vaughan, has lashed out on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for the poor scheduling of the lately concluded The Hundred 2024.
Vaughan additionally blamed the ECB for the failure of The Hundred 2024. The Indian Premier League (IPL) has set a gold normal for franchise cricket, and its extraordinary success has influenced different cricket boards worldwide to stage their very own leagues.
Michael Vaughan slams ECB for scheduling blunder that overshadowed The Hundred 2024
Whereas the BCCI has masterfully run the IPL for seventeen years, different boards try exhausting to copy the IPL’s magic. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had additionally launched ‘The Hundred’ a few years in the past, creating a brand new format besides the cricket followers.
The 100-ball event additionally acquired spectacular success earlier, however this 12 months, the event struggled to draw followers. Now, Vaughan confused that the event’s failure this 12 months was largely attributable to poor scheduling.
The cricket pundit has insisted that the ECB’s determination to schedule The Hundred 2024 alongside the Paris Olympics 2024 severely impacted its viewership and demand among the many followers. Moreover, Vaughan believes that the ECB made a crucial gaffe by not contemplating the conflict with the latest Olympics, which badly overshadowed The Hundred 2024.
ECB have gotten to make it very, very sort of brutal name: Vaughan
The previous Englishman additional prompt that the ECB should rethink its method and make robust selections relating to future scheduling to keep away from such conflicts and shedding its followers, as The Hundred remains to be new to the followers.
Michael Vaughan was quoted as saying by The Telegraph Cricket: “I will be trustworthy about this 12 months’s Hundred. I believe the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) screwed up. I believe they put it up towards the Olympics. I simply assume that the scheduling of this 12 months’s Hundred was poor. If you assume, you are attempting to promote it fora lot of cash. I believe the ECB have gotten to make it very, very sort of brutal name. I do not assume there ought to be bilateral at some point collection anymore.”
‘I believe the ECB screwed up’
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— Telegraph Cricket (@TeleCricket) August 21, 2024
Notably, the ultimate of The Hundred 2024 was performed between the Oval Invincibles and Southern Courageous at Lord’s on August 18. Within the thrilling remaining, Oval Invincibles crushed Southern Courageous by 17 runs to retain the title on the iconic Lord’s Cricket Floor.
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Participant of the Match was Saqib Mahmood, who completed with three wickets to play a key function in his crew’s title overcome the Southern Courageous at Lord’s. Oval Invincibles captain Sam Billings had acknowledged: “Completely happy it ended the suitable approach. We spoke at one of many first crew conferences this 12 months, it is a squad that wins not the 11 gamers and it once more comes again to the setting and different subjective issues.
Tom Lammonby is an instance, he performed the crew function, me and TC stated to him yesterday within the follow session, you will be the distinction. He has not had the affect however they’re the sort of crew performers you need to see.”
