County Championship 2020

[Guy Profumo]

The ECB really are determined to make sure Somerset never win the thing, aren't they?



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/50466256

[Satchmo Distel]

Counties have been doing this for decades (Notts 1980s springs to mind).

[Guy Profumo]

Except Somerset produced a "result wicket"

Also in the interests of Essex and sportsmanship.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Don't both teams play on the same wicket, regardless of whether it's plowed like a field or (in Middlesex's case) sloping like a wonky pool table in a council estate pub?

[Guy Profumo]

Don't both teams play on the same wicket, regardless of whether it's plowed like a field or (in Middlesex's case) sloping like a wonky pool table in a council estate pub?

Yes

They do