It's to fit the T20 nonsense in. I can't see how they can have a T20 league, a one-day league and the CC otherwise. What should happen is day/night CC so more people can attend and one of the whizz-bang competitions become knockout or smaller league + KO
It's actually one of the more sensible ideas the ECB has come up with. The thinking behind is that too many teams prepare pitches that are too green and too seamer-friendly as there's a 50/50 chance they'd get first use of it. The rationale for the change is that if a home side knows that's...