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July 18, 2009

Thank you, ECB

Contrary to popular opinion, GCW does not have the ear of the bigwigs at the ECB. Or at least, we didn’t think that was the case. Now we are starting to wonder.

July 16, 2009

Dump the P20 please, ECB

What benefit is the P20 supposed to bring to English cricket? The ECB initially unveiled it as their answer to the IPL, but it has been watered down and fudged so much that the original question has long been forgotten.

June 5, 2009

More on the ECB P20 nonsense

The editorial piece in the July issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly focuses on the ECB’s policy of flooding the market with needless cricket. And a very incisive piece it is too.

May 28, 2009

No Twenty20 vision at the ECB

Attendances for the T20 Cup so far this season has been poor, and now we will be lumbered with another overblown exercise in nothingness to go along with it. The fact that the bigwigs are insistent on two T20 tournaments shows the muddled thinking. Essentially, they are championing change without actually having to change anything.

May 7, 2009

ECB get another chance to ruin English cricket

News that the television rights are up for sale for the new P20 that begins next year. Nothing worrying about that, I hear you say. Until you find out that the bid of ESPNStar is conditional on each team including at least one Indian player.

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