The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Packing them in: but can IPL scenes be repeated in ECB’s T20?

The postponement, with a substantial financial loss, of the South African Global League, the latest and one of the most expensive T20 franchised leagues, ought to send a warning to others (and by that, specifically, the ECB’s proposed franchised T20).
It looks, economically speaking, something like the beginnings of the bursting of a bubble. Like the dot.com crisis, perhaps, some are strong enough to survive but others will not be, and the ...