Here is the squad representing English cricket at the Lord’s Test on Thursday. It may not be the one you expected. Delia Bushell, Martin Darlow, Alan Dickinson, Colin Graves, Tom Harrison, Barry O’Brien, Kamlesh Patel, Lucy Pearson, Scott Smith, Jane Stichbury, Brenda Trenowden, Jim Wood.
If you think that’s not so much a Who’s Who of English cricket but a Who? Who? you would not be alone. Don’t worry: they are not taking the field. But they are, quite astonishingly, the 12 most important people in the national summer game – and now the only 12 with any power worth mentioning: the directors of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Written by Matthew Engel
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2018/aug/08/counties-need-to-revolt-the-hundred-ecb under the title “Counties should revolt against The Hundred and reverse the ECB coup | Matthew Engel”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
