THE GRUMBLER
A FAN’S VIEW BY RICHARD CLARKE
@The_Grumbler
The governors of county cricket are often accused of inaction but they remain reliably prolific in one area – producing reports.
Normally, the sound of a new volume thudding onto the desk of a senior suit at Lord’s is met by a grimace once it reaches county members in the Shires.
It feels like opening one of those brown envelopes from the Inland Revenue. It is normally so costly that, if nothing is lost you breathe a sigh of relief.
But this week, traditional county fans were given the hope of a rebate, the return of something much-pr...