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Idiot.
MacLaurin has been involved with the EBC for years now and does have an understanding of our game. I think the point he is trying to prove is that there are far too many meaningless games in the Championship. I'm might be wrong but I don't think that two Divisions has worked as we see the likes of Carberry playing in Division Two one week opening in Tests the next week.
He might end up playing in division 3 the way Pants are performing.
We need our players playing against the best players in the world week in week out, I've said on here before go back to two overseas players, in the 70's and 80's every County had a quality quick bowler and top class batsman. Currently we see players who really aren't good enough moving from County to County as there is nothing better around, Gatting to Hampshire being a classic example.
That is never going to happen again because of money spinning 20/20 leagues.Big Bash/IPL etc
Do away with Central Contracts, get the Test players playing in the County Championship, make them hungry for success and ensure that they are playing against the best players in the world and not just twatting average bowling around the park or taking cheap wickets.
They wouldnt care, they would just end up with freelance 20/20 specialists
3 leagues of 6 counties each might make things a bit more interesting
CC cricket and to a degree Test Match cricket has been shafted by Sky and Indian TV money.
The Ashes should be played every 2 years, alternating home and away.
This last series was wasted because they have only just finished the last one in August, all to suit the Cricket World Cup and Champions Trophey and 20/20 World Cup
This. When I was at school (albeit in the non-traditionally cricket county of Cornwall) we only played cricket in the last term of the last year, and only three or four proper matches.the thing is, there isn't really enough time in a school year to play much competitive cricket, as it comes just before the biggest holiday and smack bang in the middle of exam season. I remember playing about 4, perhaps 5 games a year at school level. not really worth a state school preparing and maintaining a grass wicket for that.
surely more teams = more potential youngsters getting a chance?
He's probably suggested Sussex & Kent as our grounds are not international venues and we don't make enough money for the ECB, who are the other counties he suggests culling, let me guess, Gloucs, Derbys, Leics, Essex, Somerset ?
He certainly can.Why would a reduction in counties improve the national side?
Has he dreamed this up overnight? Do we need a radical change or do we accept that the side is in a state of transition. If anything, we need to cull the amount of international cricket.
Lose Sussex? His Lordship can **** right off.