Cricket 07 Save File
Xena Donovan
Cricket has cell phone plan deals for new and existing customers that includes Group Save multi-line discounts. New and existing customers in good standing with at least two (2) eligible lines of service on one account will automatically receive Group Save discounts. Lines with a plan starting at $40/mo are eligible for Group Save discounts. Lines with the $25 plan, $30 plan, the discontinued Tablet plan, or the grandfathered Advanced plan are not eligible. Only eligible lines two-five on the same account will receive the monthly discount.
If you are on the grandfathered Group Save discount (maximum $100 discount on 5 eligible lines) and make any plan change to an existing account, you will automatically be moved into the new discount structure, and the discounts on lines 4 and 5 will be reduced to $20 each. The discount update will become effective on the first day of your next billing cycle.
If you are currently receiving the Auto Pay credit as a single line account, and you add a new Group Save-eligible line of service to your account, you will no longer receive the $5/mo. Auto Pay credit (even if you leave Auto Pay turned on). But don't worry, we'll automatically apply the $10/mo. Group Save discount to your account. You'll save even more!
The episode starts out like normal with the students off-screen, leaving school at the end of the day. They say goodbye to the classroom pets. The classroom is decorated with student artwork and other items of bubbles and Chicago. Once the classroom is vacant, the phone with a purple bubble wand suddenly starts ringing. One by one, the classroom pets wordlessly notice the ringing phone (Linny is scratching herself, Ming-Ming is nudging bubble wrap, and Tuck is looking at a bubble.). The Wonder Pets get dressed and make their way towards the phone while singing their opening verses, but then a soap bubble traps Tuck! Linny tells Tuck to reach out his finger and pop the bubble. Tuck tries to pop the bubble - it worked! Then, the Wonder Pets answer the phone and find out that there's an animal in trouble somewhere. Linny explains the situation to the other two: a baby cricket stuck in a bubble. They all jump into a box filled with fabric scraps and jump back out, blowing bubbles. Then, they all laugh and jump back into the box and emerge in their Wonder Pets capes. Once dressed, they assemble a flying toy sailboat called "The Flyboat" from classroom objects: a red Frisbee for a body, purple magic marker caps as rocket exhausts, a marble, blue and yellow wheels, blue Erector pieces for a mast, and a sheet of paper for the sail. They take off and exit through the cubby hole (covered by a chicken) up to the sky and sing their intro. They arrived at Chicago, Illinois - Tuck's kind of town. They saw Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs play baseball. They also saw bubbles, which are dangerous, so they landed. Ming-Ming thinks Chicago, Illinois is so bubbly. The Wonder Pets listen and follow the baby cricket's chirp and search the bubbles far and wide. They found the baby cricket, but then the wind started to blow. Ming-Ming thinks Chicago is a windy city. Then the wind blew the bubble with the cricket inside.
Ashes series in Australia usually end in humiliation. My childhood was defined by late nights listening to England batting collapses on the portable radio under my duvet. This one feels different, however. It is not another pasting that we will bounce back from with runs and wickets in the following year. This time, something feels truly broken.
England won one of their six Test Matches in the summer of 2021, losing three. Arguably, if weather had not intervened, they could have lost five. The team in Australia looks absolutely broken. Batsmen are not capable of basic Test match technique; bowling has been inconsistent and selection utterly baffling.
If English cricket is broke, the logic is that it needs fixing. So here is my 5-point plan to save our national summer sport. Some of the conclusions in this plan may upset a few people but we simply cannot carry on as we are if we want Test cricket in this country to continue as a credible sport
I will begin this by saying I love the County Championship as deeply as many of you do. It needs to be cherished and preserved, not thrown to side lines as Kevin Pietersen and others would wish. However, it is unworkable in its current format. Green pitches reward average bowlers and make it impossible for batsmen to develop sound long form batting techniques. Playing it in the Spring and Autumn means that players are not experiencing the same conditions that they will experience in Test cricket.
We have to accept, though, the reality of the world we live in. The Championship will never again be the centrepiece of the cricketing summer, it attracts such small crowds and so little revenue that counties would simply go bust if shorter formats were pushed to the side to accommodate a whole summer of four-day cricket.
The simplest solution to this would be to divide the Championship into three divisions of six teams, each playing each other home and away. That would ensure ten games of four-day cricket for each team, providing plenty of opportunity for players to hone their red ball skills.
I can already hear the howls of protest from the members of counties that would be stuck in the third division, losing their best players to those in the higher leagues. My own county, Northamptonshire, could well be one of them. To this I would say that this is the reality of competitive sport. After all, we do not amalgamate the four divisions of English professional football so that Wycombe Wanderers can play Manchester United every week.
I have seen the evidence of its success with my own eyes. Work colleagues who have never previously shown any interest in cricket are now buying Hundred season tickets and calling me over to their computers to show me the latest clips on social media. The big question us cynics still ask is will this translate to interest in the longer forms of cricket? I know it may be only anecdotal evidence but in my experience this is happening.
The question is, however, if The Hundred is to become a permanent fixture then how can we use it to the advantage of the game we all love? The answer is simple. Milk it for all it is worth and use the money generated to safeguard the rest of the game. The ECB must be willing to let go of their baby and open up to private ownership of Hundred franchises. The money generated by this sale must, and I cannot emphasize this enough, be split equally amongst all 18 counties, otherwise the three-division structure simply will not work and many counties may go out of business.
As The Hundred continues to grow, and hopefully becomes the second biggest franchise competition in the world behind the IPL, all revenue from it must be streamed directly to the counties. This way we can achieve the best of both worlds, a glitzy, exciting franchise competition to draw in new fans and the protection of the county system that so many of us cherish.
To do this we will need a complete root and branch overhaul of the ECB. The governing body as it is is simply not fit for purpose. The decision of Tom Harrison and his fellow ECB officials to award themselves 2 million in bonuses at a time when counties were struggling to stay afloat in the pandemic and England players were taking pay cuts was truly disgusting.
Cricket needs to be visible to be viable. The 18 counties have led the way in this area in recent years with live streaming of all matches on YouTube. This has been a huge step forward for the game, with the sizeable streaming figures for matches showing how much public interest there still is in county cricket. Somerset, for example, recorded 250,000 streams per match in the 2021 summer.
The in play clips of Test match runs and wickets on the BBC website are a significant step as well. Clips such as this are increasingly how young people watch sport these days, and cricket must be at the forefront of this if it wants to capture the interest of the next generation.
Cricket has also disappeared from many state schools, despite the laudable efforts of Chance to Shine and other organisations. Not only is playing the game beyond the reach of many working-class families but watching it is also becoming increasingly inaccessible. The decision to sell live Test cricket in this country to Sky Sports in 2004 has had such obvious far-reaching consequences for the game that it is not necessary to state them again.
Cricket is now the preserve of the rich and privileged, another playground that the working class are not invited to. The recent racism crisis in the game has its roots in this inaccessibility too. The work of Ebony Rainford-Brent and others to bring the game to ethnic minority children in inner cities is incredible but it is sad that it is needed.
Those that run our sport have played lip service to creating opportunity but lacked the will to leave their own privileged bubbles and enact policies that would give everyone the opportunity to enjoy cricket. Until this changes, the game will always struggle to have the mass appeal of football, or even rugby.
India has 4 domestic competitions. Competitions in T20 (Syed Mustaq Ali), One Day (Vijay Hazare), FC (Ranji) and the IPL. Add to that a bunch of smaller tournaments (Duleep Trophy), Irani Cup etc (the latter being the Ranji winners versus the best team India can assemble excluding the Ranji winners). Somehow that has not stopped India being successful in most formats.
The cricket I enjoyed as much as any last summer was the 50 over competition, even in its devalued state. It successfully bridges the gap between serious and fast and furious, and offers spectators a complete experience in one visit to the ground. I would be truly sorry if this ever turned out to be the format to be ditched.
I therefore suggest that the current T20 competition be abolished and the 100 be relaunched as the 120. It should comprise a premier league and a championship, and the two together would comprise 18 teams, based on the current counties. Current franchises would presumably have to stay for the five years, and if they want to keep their current names (Oval Invincibles, Welsh Fire etc), they can. Other counties can choose their own names but, for example, Kent would probably be the Spitfires, Sussex the Sharks and so on. There would be promotion and relegation between the two divisions, although this might not be possible till after the initial five years due to current contracts. Every county/franchise would have a womens team and play double headers as at present in the 100.
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