Through it all, there is the ongoing question as to whether The Hundred will one day become another T20 league.<\/p>\n
Banerjee says for the time being the tournament’s identity is built around its unique 100-ball format.<\/p>\n
“What’s really important for any sporting tournament is the strength of foundations within its home country,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Whether you’re the NFL, the Premier League, the IPL, the strength in their home territory is important.”<\/p>\n
And Gidney says shifting to T20 would not be something investors would necessarily even want.<\/p>\n
“Everybody sees the uniqueness of The Hundred, and that’s one of the big appeals to broadcasters,” he adds.<\/p>\n
“If we become a T20, I don’t think we can say that. The Hundred gives the UK a real opportunity to say, ‘Do you know what? In certain elements we can be as good as, if not better than, the IPL.'”<\/p>\n
The Hundred will remain controversial. It’ll never be for everyone, but then is any cricket format?<\/p>\n
What can’t be denied is the tournament has generated vast revenue and given English cricket a chance to reach audiences, both local and globally, that might not have been accessible without this radical change.<\/p>\n
What that change will look like in 10 years’ time remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
Who knows if the English game will be marching on together as hoped by those that have staked so much on this direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through it all, there is the ongoing question as to whether The Hundred will one day become another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}