There must be somehting in the air or water at ECB HQ above or the Grey Lubyanka as it is known to some of its inmates. It is as charmless inside as it is out.
The ECB has announced that its all new 8 city comp will not be T20 after all but will be a 100 balls a side – 15 conventional overs and some sort of super over involving 10 balls at the end. Apparently this is going to have them flocking in. I cannot imagine why? It is worth remembering that the ECB invented T20 only to fail miserably in its development as a domestic competition whilst other parts of the world took it to heights that the ECB could only dream off.
If they seriously think that this new format will be any more successful, they must be living in cloud cuckoo land.
Where is all this going to end? Answer: as a complete failure allied to the emasculation of existing forms of cricket which the ECB is allowing to fall by the wayside in its blinkered pursuit of this insane project.
SW.
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