It's an absolute mess, and nobody comes out of this looking good (KP did until he started feeding tidbits to Piers Morgan).
One thing where I disagree with a lot of commentators - they've been questioning how this decision can be made when there's no permanent 'team director' appointed. Yet the...
This is all a question of perspective though, isn't it?
Ask an accountant at any of the counties and they'd tell you there's too much four day cricket and not enough t20. Ask a purist and the opposite is true.
My perspective is that some of the lesser lights in the county scene get a large...
I don't agree. Without the mega TV deals for the England team what state would county cricket be in? What's the average attendance for a four-day county game? Have as many teams as you want for slap-and-tickle cricket, but the current bloated four-day game doesn't really suit anyone - counties...
I think this comes back to the strength of county cricket. Yes, I know that the idea of merging counties isn't very popular, but at least if there was a smaller pool of players playing every week it'd be much more apparent who's actually half decent. As it is Woakes gets a look in because his...