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Excellent stuff. I agree that ‘that’ tournament is one too far and endangers red ball cricket. The only real cricket. Since England are unlikely to pick 50 over players from the county tournament why not play it earlier in the season with a red ball. Secondly since one day players are largely a breed unto themselves why not let them be one side of cricket and the county championship play more games to entertain purists. And maybe produce new test players in a way the IPL or 100 won’t
Thanks Graeme. For me, we need to rationalise what we really want the game to be and prioritise accordingly. But that is too hard. So it is fudge, fudge, fudge pretending to support everything but moving the resources to their favoured places and letting other things die. So, eg, rather than cut the Champ, they want to give us 10 games, of which three will be rained off. It is a very British way of doing things but it is so poor. At least your point about 50 overs at the start would get more completed games in the worst weather.
Excellent stuff. I agree that ‘that’ tournament is one too far and endangers red ball cricket. The only real cricket. Since England are unlikely to pick 50 over players from the county tournament why not play it earlier in the season with a red ball. Secondly since one day players are largely a breed unto themselves why not let them be one side of cricket and the county championship play more games to entertain purists. And maybe produce new test players in a way the IPL or 100 won’t
Thanks Graeme. For me, we need to rationalise what we really want the game to be and prioritise accordingly. But that is too hard. So it is fudge, fudge, fudge pretending to support everything but moving the resources to their favoured places and letting other things die. So, eg, rather than cut the Champ, they want to give us 10 games, of which three will be rained off. It is a very British way of doing things but it is so poor. At least your point about 50 overs at the start would get more completed games in the worst weather.