by Two consecutive days, two cricket events, two very different visions.
One, at Old Trafford, last Friday, was entirely in a hurry Chinos and radiant smiles, because the Lancashire held a press conference to celebrate its link with the RSPG group, which agreed to pay 80 million pounds sterling for a Participation of 70% in Manchester originals. A Warren Hegg procedure has completed, including a video link with the vice -president of the RSPG, Shashwat Goenka – now the proud owner of a third cricket franchise alongside Lucknow Super Giants and Super Giants from Durban – and who has Expressed a desire for the super giants of Manchester Originals from Manchester one day Rival City and United.
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The other, last Thursday, at the performance Center of England and the country of Wales Cricket at the University of Loughborough, was much less corporate and a little less closed, as a group of academics gathered to discuss the future cricket.
It was the second meeting of the Cricket Research Network (chaired by the RAF Nicholson du Guardian) and the various speakers covered an almost crushing number of subjects, each with a strict period of 20 minutes.
Some subjects were soft. Rochana Jayasinghe discussed the changing cricket language: how the restrictions of Pose-Lip Fielding became the explosive power game, how terminology has become desexed (from drummer to helicopter drums, the switch struck and with an eye to The future, the growing use of AI and algorithmic language. The animation by the cricket over the years, Paul Wells of the University of Loughborough, who traced his development of the Matchstick Menstick Match Movie, in the Ball, the film of the Ballon by Arthur Melbourne Cooper.
But there was also meat on the bone.
Hina Shafi is a year in her doctorate on the ethnic profile of the Talents of the Girls of the ECB and the Women’s Super League (with part of its funding from the ECB, SACA, AS and His head.) His data analysis has found, frustrating, although perhaps to the surprise of a person, that black girls and women are underrepresented throughout the talent path less than 1% of those who play. In the professional game, only two of the 157 women and girls are black. The data also revealed that although the women of South Asia are too represented at the level of young people, they become under -represented when they age – with only five players of this context currently in the professional game.
Shafi’s research has also shown that women from state schools are better represented than in male game – at 69.3% of all those in the talent course, but private schools are still considerably overrepresented (28.7 %). During her second year, she will work to find out why these anomalies exist.
A second hairdressing speech came from Steve Menary. He has long examined the way in which Paris companies have put their teeth in sport, especially football. But here, he focused on cricket – especially the world booming of the T10, a format that is not recognized by the ICC and seems to be a Wild West Yahooing, where players fly and go out with abandonment, Remuneration is often struck and missed, and where the cricket players inexplicably underperform. The scandals struck the ABU Dhabi T10, the Lanka T10, the Zim Afro T10 and, surely, another T10 League near you. Menary recommended that the ICC plan to legitimize the format and provide integrity units to each pop-up competition at the organizer.
Like Alex Marshall, the chief of the anti-corruption unit of the ICC franchise leagues. The threat to the game is that the corrupters will not disappear when there is always money to make and they will look for weakness in the system to enter. »»
Much here then for the ECB and the professional association of cricket players (who both had representatives at the conference) to put the teeth – because the news announced that new Riched Spirit plan to include some of the colors of egg eggs and Bacon of signature of the MCC on their band. The more it changes …
