19-07-2018 14:49 via theguardian.com

The Hundred’s mania to be different makes it grimmer by the minute | Vic Marks

Five-ball overs, 10 balls bowled from the same end makes the ECB’s new competition more confusing increasingly less necessary as the game prospers on a blazing hot summerMore leaks have dribbled out about The Hundred, the proposed one-day tournament that will take over the prime weeks of the cricket season in 2020. The advent of five ball overs, which reduces the length of the game - as does the notion of bowling two overs consecutively from the same end, which could be delivered by the sa
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