Guaranteed matches and equitable revenue distribution is how you rescue the game rather than just focusing on top nations
Cancel the open-topped bus parade. Stash the MBEs back in the drawer. Slap a half-price sticker on the basket of bucket hats. Manchester woke on Monday morning to pale sunshine, a clearing mist, the fog of war lifting from the battlefield.
There will be a fifth Ashes Test at the Oval this week, and it will be big. These things always are. But it will unfold in front of a traditional audience of the pre-enlisted. The hostilities continue. But English cricket’s evangelical summer is over. “It is a massive game for us,” Ben Stokes insisted. But no longer, really, for anybody else.
Written by Jonathan Liew
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/24/ben-stokes-brendon-mccullum-test-cricket-big-three-england-ashes-australia under the title “Stokes and McCullum want to save Test cricket but what about beyond Big Three? | Jonathan Liew”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
