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I notice that your son didn’t remember names of any of the 44 players that took part in the Hundred Balls Up exhibition games at The Oval, can he recall which ‘teams’ won?
Franchise sports may work in other countries, but in the UK most sports fans support a team in the part of the country they were brought up in (apart from Man Utd fans obviously!) and really couldn’t give a monkeys about watching a cabal of Harlem Globetrotters plying their trade in various global T20 ‘tournaments’ when it doesn’t really matter who wins.
He has just remembered Sam Curran. But he can't recall which teams won. He did say "oh, I saw them" when an ad for an upcoming game for the Oval Invincibles was on Sky this week. I fully admit that, if it was county cricket, I'd be nurturing this.
I notice that your son didn’t remember names of any of the 44 players that took part in the Hundred Balls Up exhibition games at The Oval, can he recall which ‘teams’ won?
Franchise sports may work in other countries, but in the UK most sports fans support a team in the part of the country they were brought up in (apart from Man Utd fans obviously!) and really couldn’t give a monkeys about watching a cabal of Harlem Globetrotters plying their trade in various global T20 ‘tournaments’ when it doesn’t really matter who wins.
He has just remembered Sam Curran. But he can't recall which teams won. He did say "oh, I saw them" when an ad for an upcoming game for the Oval Invincibles was on Sky this week. I fully admit that, if it was county cricket, I'd be nurturing this.
Says it all really when he can’t remember (or cares!) which teams won!