Dan Whiting questions the increasing financial demands on clubs to offer coaching and league competition when participation levels are dropping
Regular readers of The Cricket Paper will know that a number of columns that I have written recently are about the struggles of club cricket.
A recent survey in a major monthly cricket magazine showed that there were 428,000 people registered to leagues in 2009. By 2016, this had dropped to 278,000 – figures that if they were published by a City analyst would have shareholders reaching for the phones, screaming: “Sell!”
A drop o...
