Seems to me that county cricket is starting to take a "back-seat" to the limited over games now.
Botham was banging on about reducing the county championship to 12 counties. I guess we'd be prime candidates for the chop being a non-test ground county?Absolutely. The "need" to play 20/20 on fridays completely screwed the schedule. One aim of the new system was to regulate the fixture list, BUT they still couldn't keep it consistent with 20/20's on days other than fridays, and our last home championship game starting on a tuesday rather than a sunday. FWIW I enjoyed popping down to Hove for the few sundays that they had play, very enjoyable. However thanks to the weather at the beginning and poor scheduling later on these were few and far between. I will definitely review the fixture list before deciding which membership to get next season.