Really they didn’t need to replay three full days of English cricketing calamity, but it does set the scene for the absurd, scarcely believable finale.
I love how even in the promo video they’re like “it’ll make sense later on” and they’re completely baffled.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3 with three teams, each team playing 12 overs in 36 overs with one innings each and each team will bowl six overs with each bowler getting three overs maximum.
Hopefully we’ll see more sporting madness springing from this fine idea: football with two balls, Formula 1 on ice, a duck entering the Tour De France etc.
The sense I get from that is that no one is touring to and from South Africa and they need to do something with their main 18 players - not enough for a full game of 20-20 and a really pointless exercise to have South Africa v South Africa B so might as well do something random, see if it sticks and and then become the champions of this format like India have with T20 (ie not just in winning terms but in money terms)
It's like they've took the saying "it's just not cricket" and decided to test exactly how bonkers you can make it while still calling it by the same name.
I don't get "With fewer players in each team (and thus fewer fielders)" - aren't there 2x8 = 16 fields at any time (i.e. both non-batting teams), so more fielders than normal #math?
Oh wait, only the single bowling team is fielding? The other is in the dugout? Meh, opportunity missed right there.