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Cricket News: Herschelle Gibbs not a fan of The Hundred | Former Protea Herschelle Gibbs provides thoughts on The Hundred

The Hundred has entered its second season with some incredible excitement over the tournament. Each team has played at least three games so far in this campaign whilst the majority of them are done with at least four matches.

The format wherein teams compete against each other in 100-delivery games has gained popularity and acceptance amongst the masses in recent times.

Herschelle Gibbs struggling to see value in The Hundred

However, former South African star Herschelle Gibbs has taken a distinct view of the competition. He believes that The Hundred has very little differentiating value as compared to the traditional T20 format.

A veteran of 90 Tests and 248 ODIs, Gibbs argued that it isn’t a version of the game that will hold its ground once the other forms of the sport are going on simultaneously.

“Quick observation, 2nd season of this 100 league and still can’t see any value in it. Still the same dynamics of a t20 just a few balls less. Wouldn’t be missed with all the other cricket on the go.#sscricket,” Gibbs put down his observations on the format on Twitter.

Southern Brave had won the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2021. Moreover, a ‘Player of the Series’ performance by Liam Livingstone had helped the middle-order swashbuckler cement his spot in the English batting line-up.

There have been several debates on the sustainability of the format and whether it could be expanded to wider avenues and countries.

The Hundred was designed and conceptualized with a view of bringing the kids and mothers to the stadiums during their summer holidays. The format has a host of different rules. For instance, there are overs of five deliveries each and a captain can take a call on letting a bowler bowl two consecutive fives (two overs of five deliveries each).

Any team that fails to complete its quota of overs in the stipulated time will have to bring an extra fielder inside the inner ring until the end of that innings. This slight penalty is imposed in order to ensure that the pace of the games is expedited. Each match of the Hundred is supposed to conclude in two-and-a-half-hours.

It can be argued that some quirky rules were introduced in order to present The Hundred differently vis-à-vis T20s. In the larger scheme of things, there’s possibly very little to separate both the formats.

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