I do not think the city competition is needed for player development. Commercially every avenue should have been exhausted before going down this line. But then when English cricket is run by a northern grocer whose business model was sell cheap, there is no chance...
I think the messing around...
Commercially there might be some truth to what you have said.
However, the current exciting England One Day side is born out of the county T20 competition. A lot of these players we are seeing play for England were playing in the T20 competition regularly at relatively young age. This has...