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Grounds For Complaint?

By Hector Cappelletti
In Talking Points
February 15, 2018
7 Min read
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Yesterday the ECB announced which venues would host Ashes tests in 2023. They also announced which grounds would stage games in the dreaded City T20 competition. It surprised absolutely nobody that the traditional big venues (plus Cardiff) monopolised the biggest fixtures. Sigh. However, the decision not to award the Ageas Bowl an Ashes test did raise some eyebrows. Was this the right call? Interestingly Hampshire fan Hector Cappelletti thinks the ECB got this one right. He explains why below...

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L’Etranger

By Hector Cappelletti
In Talking Points
October 23, 2017
6 Min read
7 comments

Eleven positions make up the standard cricket team. Each possesses its own unique aspects, be they geographical, technical or skill related. Each possesses certain nuances which the incumbent must be cognisant of in order to perform proficiently. Each will require a modicum of adaptability and metamorphosis, changing roles depending on the ebb and flow of a match. Nevertheless, the average cricket team can be divided into two distinct sections: bowlers and batters. Players in both sections...

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A Load Of Pink Balls? Day-Night Championship Cricket

By Hector Cappelletti
In County Cricket
June 28, 2017
9 Min read
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Hector has been to the Rose Bowl to watch some day-night first class cricket. Here are his observations … I’ll admit I was intrigued upon first hearing about the concept. Cricket under lights is hardly a new idea but the county championship under lights stoked an inner sense of curiosity. Admittedly, floodlit county championship cricket is not wholly new – Kent hosted Glamorgan at Canterbury during the 2011 season – but when a wholesale round of fixtures was announced during...

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Back To The Future? A Plan For Domestic 50 Over Cricket

By Hector Cappelletti
In County Cricket
May 19, 2017
3 Min read
8 comments

In the ECB’s brave new world there is very little to please the poor, beleaguered, run of the mill cricket supporter. The county championship is being ever more marginalised, the calendar is re-shuffled almost every year, and the ECB is intent on wooing a completely new audience. Current supporters are just expected to shut up and continue paying their money. How very football. Instead of treating them with distain, maybe the ECB could placate its existing loyal fan base? The fifty over...

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Nostalgia Corner: The 1992 World Cup

By Hector Cappelletti
In Nostalgia
February 24, 2017
9 Min read
4 comments

Can it really be a quarter of a century since the late Martin Crowe opened the 1992 Cricket World Cup with a stunning century at Eden Park to dramatically bloody the nose of the defending champions on the opening day of the tournament? This piece by Hector was originally written in preparation for the 2015 World Cup but not completed until recently. It seemed rather fitting to publish such a piece on the 25th anniversary of the tournament’s genesis. Reminiscing can be a capricious business...

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Growing Pains: T20, Overkill, And The New City Based Tournament

By Hector Cappelletti
In Talking Points
February 15, 2017
14 Min read
37 comments

In the post Big Bash, pre Indian Premier League vacuum all the talk is of how successful the former has proved, leading to much conjecture over the English domestic equivalent. Is the much discussed, much proposed city franchise league a means of growing the game or simply a means of growing bank balances? In the article below, Hector Cappelletti discusses the problem of T20 cricket in England, its future and its raison d’etre. Thirteen summers previous I took the plunge and attended my first...

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