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An ice cube would be welcome in this weather, I'd think.
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Try again...
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Ooh, free accounts...
*Tries logging into sports websites with the CRICKETher email and the password Scrivens4Captain!*
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Sounds like you shouldn't use your regular password on such an insecure site. Maybe try something like DROP TABLE users?
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I'm normally the first to bash the MCC, but I don't think most (if not all) counties are any better. Even without the barriers to joining that the MCC has, I doubt it has the lowest percentage of full women members within the ECB.
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Surely the counties wouldn't just pocket the ECB's Tier 1 stipend (spending it on facilities that the men's and women's teams technically share like nets or gyms, for example) while cutting corners in every aspect needed specifically for their women's team...
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Yet another failure of your 'If they follow their claimed procedure' timeline predictions...
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Do they have an award for the best England men's Test batter of the year, because I think Stokes is the only non-public schoolboy likely to qualify.
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To be fair, that's always been my motto...
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Why do it for free?
The licensing cost is non-existant, as the ECB places zero commercial value on women's domestic cricket, and you would be providing a service that the ECB desperately needs at a fraction of the cost of their normal consultants. Send them a quote for how much you'll charge them.
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If only someone who owned a women's cricket website with a background in maths and programming could produce a front end which presented scores, streams and statistics in a usable manner...
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The most charitable explanation is that Wisden values Test and first class cricket above all else, which women don't play, which is why county players like Worrall can win but no woman has ever even been considered for their domestic form.
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...yet.
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I think Beaumont would have been my choice. A senior player but seemingly outside the previous leadership clique. A strong work ethic, serious about the game and not prone to interview gaffes as far as I'm aware.
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It doesn't seem an obvious solution to the issue of England's culture and leadership problems. After all, Sciver-Brunt was the second-most powerful player in that dressing room as vice captain and didn't have an obvious positive effect.
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Surely there is always a large group of professional umpires available if wanted? English and Australian domestic umpires for a start, depending on the season.
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Probably not your fault then.
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That depends. Have you been supporting them for the last 130 years?
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What does this result say about the captain?
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This might not be a Tier 2 thing. The men's Middlesex team has been pretty bad in all formats for a while, and that may have leaked into the women's team.
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My reading is that overseas TV rights will still be pooled between the ECB and the teams, but negotiated by IPL team owners. They are far more likely to get a good deal in India, so that's great news.
It does diminish the power of the host counties who kept their shares though.
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Sure, but the hosts which didn't sell their share have less control than under the original plan. The smaller teams (ie Welsh Fire) will also lose out a little financially from teams having separate sponsorships.
I'm curious if the ECB has guaranteed a minimum value for the 2029-32 UK TV rights.
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It's obviously a better deal for the owners, because they've secured more guarantees and concessions than they had bought before.
I would think the ECB are very happy that the investors will be more active in Indian TV negotiations too. The host counties may not be happy, because they're losing out
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Clare Connor. She doesn't want you being able to compare the wages for the men's and women's selectors and asking her if the men's selector's job is three or four times more difficult and skilled than the women's.
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We've already had that. The current TV deal is the same cash value as the previous one, which is worth something like 30% less because of the effects of inflation in the four years since the first one was signed.
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I reckon 8E would ensure a long sleep until you get to your destination.
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Ecclestone might be available more this season too, due to Edwards wanting England players in the county competitions.
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See, now I'm a little disappointed she didn't slap you. That would have been great TV...
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Yes, I did realise that. Thank you for bringing it up.
It was possibly the last thing Connor would have wanted to talk about, I imagine. It was supposed to be a joyful coronation, and instead several publications mentioned how she had bypassed the ECB's anti-racism rules.
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One gratifying thing about Edwards' hiring is that several publications did at least mention the Rooney Rule and the ECB's broken promises.
Hopefully it will concentrate the minds of Connor and Key in the future, and perhaps come up when Edwards hires her assistants.
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I watched the teaser so you don't have to. Produced by Seth McFarlane, and two jokes which are talking directly to the audience/camera.
I don't know why they even called it Naked Gun.
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I think that the ECB possibly spend more money on women's cricket than any other ICC member, and have won neither an Ashes series nor an ICC competition in 8 years.
In that context, it's kind of incredible that Connor is as secure and well regarded as she is within the ECB.
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They've never actually followed it. The 2018 South Asian Action Plan said it applied to ALL coaching jobs, but it never has for assistant coaches, ones at Loughborough, Lions coaches, etc.
They only did for the head coach, and not when McCullum took over white ball duties either.
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I found this quote from The Telegraph interesting. It seems broader that your post which limited it to just head coaches, suggesting that all coaching roles until now had implemented the Rooney Rule.
It doubt it's the case for the men's team, but I can't say I've noticed women's coaches being hired
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So there's just one unbeaten England captain candidate now...
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Private businesses are entitled to recruit new employees how they like within reason, including headhunting individuals.
In this specific case, the ECB promised to use an open interview process to counter the view that they were a racist organisation handing out jobs for the boys (or girls).
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I don't believe McCullum interviewed for the men's white ball role either, which was probably rationalised as being an expansion of his existing role.
It seems to suggest that the Managing Directors of Cricket aren't fans of standard recruitment procedure (or, one might argue, DEI).
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Lewis didn't make the playoffs either, so I suppose they could have told him almost a week before the WPL finished.
Of course, it still wasn't publicly advertised and presumably you haven't heard about anyone else being interviewed so the process seems questionable.
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I guess you could describe the process as "into the space of three weeks", with Lewis's firing announced on a Friday and Edwards announced on a Tuesday with a full week in between, but it's just 11 days between the two.
There's expedited and then there's rushed (and I'd happily hire Edwards).
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This is from 2018.
Worth also pointing out that it says "all coaching jobs", but has literally only ever been applied to England head coaching jobs, as far as I'm aware. When is the last time an England Lions or batting/bowling/fielding coach had a formal recruitment process?