Wakey, wakey ECB

Next season, in order to fit everything in, the ECB is proposing that the County Championship be reduced to 14 matches per team instead of 16.

The reason?  The scheduling of the Champions League T20 tournament, which has now been moved forward to September, when the last of the 4-day county matches are usually played.

So basically, the ECB has decided to scrap the end of it’s season.  This is yet more madness.  If they hadn’t decided that they absolutely, positively must have TWO Twenty20 tournaments of their own this situation would have been avoidable.  As Colin Povey, chief exec of Warwickshire says:

Perhaps we have one competition too many. If we had one all-singing, all-dancing Twenty20 competition rather than two , a 50-overs competition that prepares players for one day international cricket and the current County Championship system which works well, we would be close to a workable format.

But no.  All that lost “revenue” from the demise of the Pro40 was too much for the county chairmen and the ECB to bear.  Never mind the fact that less matches would mean better quality would mean better attendances etc.

Instead, they prefer to flog their horses all kinds of dead, but cannot understand why the corpse that remains attracts flies instead of spectators.

Wake up you fools!