What the heck is happening with the Second XI 40 over competition?
Each innings of 40-overs will be split into two phases of 20 overs, with each team having 10 wickets at its disposal for the entire innings.
A team’s second phase will continue from the point at which the first phase ended.Then there's 20 overs of powerplays, 10 of which will be the first 10 overs with the other 10 split into two blocks of 5, one taken at the fielding team’s discretion, the other at the batting team’s discretion.
Oh, and there's pink cricket balls and white clothing, ostensibly to understand more about the performance of pink balls in our conditions, and how they combine with white clothing.
Eh? Call me old-fashioned, but isn't this just daft?
I'm away to compose my masterplan for next season, which I shall sell to the ECB for a pretty penny. In mine, there are - wait for it - EIGHT innings of five overs each. Any batsman who plays a dot ball is automatically out and will be banned for three matches, while bowlers who overstep or bowl wide are banned for life. Catches can only be held with one hand and there's a powerplay every other over. Boundaries are a maximum of 50 yards and Derbyshire will switch their HQ to Heanor and still bring the ropes in.
Daft? They started it...
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