Might as well get this one up and running, with the news there's going to be some irritating but almost certainly ineffectual tinkering with the county game again next year. An eight-team Division One and 10-team Div Two. Spelling doom for more festival grounds, I'd have thought, and restricting the number of teams and players that get to play top-level first-class cricket.
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Tinker time again: County Cricket 2016
Vaughan covered this briefly on his BBC show last night, helped by a rather more thoughtful Mark Butcher as Tufnell was away. Their gist:
- agreed that it's just tinkering before a series of more radical changes from 2020 (the year, not the maxfest)
- there won't be any 'merger' of smaller counties; rather the county structure will be effectively replaced by big city franchises based on the international venues
- the new structure will have a Big Bash-like tournament during the July/ August summer holidays
- players will be glad of more days off between long games in May and June; County members won't be
- no mention of how a vast number of tests will fit into all this
- Boycott should stop whining about Yorkshire's mismanagement, he was a director when they incurred much of the £20 million debt...
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Tinker time again: County Cricket 2016
Handy that the relegation trapdoor gets narrowed for a year, just after "desirable" clubs such as Surrey and Lancashire get promoted.
There's a case for fewer fixtures – there's too much cricket played as it is - but no one seems sure how much T20 or 50-over cricket should be played, and when, so the poor old CC cops it more often than not instead.
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