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Friday, April 20, 2018

ECB’s 100-ball plans are a gimmick likely to kill off County Championship | Vic Marks

The ECB now prostrates itself at the knees of the broadcasters even if it means prostituting the game

Even the curmudgeons, a band I am in danger of joining, admit Twenty20 cricket has the capacity to be the saviour of the modern game. So what does the England and Wales Cricket Board decide to do? Abandon T20 cricket, which we all understand, for something it describes as “simpler” but which is undeniably shorter – 20 balls.

Such is the ECB’s staggering diffidence to T20 cricket as it now exists the board has opted for a gimmicky imitation. But the sad fact is however good the marketing men and women – and they will be working overtime to save the faces of those in charge at the ECB in the months leading up to the launch of this competition – I don’t think anyone is going to care.

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