Comments on: Maybe they should have a World Test Championship Final Premier League https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272669 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:12:04 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272669 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Honestly all our money on Elton in that match. Every last paise.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272668 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:20:35 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272668 In reply to Ged Ladd.

It seems to me, Sam, that you live your life, like a stick of rhubarb in Geoffrey Boycott’s Mom’s hands. Never knowing the Duckworth Lewis par score when the rain sets in…

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By: Sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272666 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:36:41 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272666 In reply to Ged Ladd.

‘Well I remember when Cook was young, me and Goochy had so much fun…’

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272665 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:15:14 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272665 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Eton v Harrow even. People didn’t have this autocorrect problem in 1805.

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272664 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:14:11 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272664 100 years? A trifling duration.

Surely the only sporting contests that REALLY matter are the ones that have been going on regularly for 200 years or more.

The Elton v Harrow cricket match at Lord’s, to provide one example.

The “real” tennis World Championship is pushing towards 300 years.

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By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272663 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:53:56 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272663 What about if all the teams played each other, maybe as many as five times, home and away, over a number of years?

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By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272662 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:52:25 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272662 In reply to Reg Excellent.

Now this idea has got legs.

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By: Reg Excellent https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/maybe-they-should-have-a-world-test-championship-final-premier-league/2023/06/12/#comment-272660 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:19:07 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28623#comment-272660 40 years to find the winner? Well, don’t forget there will have to be a playoff between the top 4 teams, and none of them will be happy to have the winner decided over 1 match, so add on another 20 years to get the finalists and then the final will be played over another series of matches. This could take 100 years.
We could call it The Hundred?

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