Their red-ball aspirations may be low, but in white-ball cricket, and T20, Northants are writing the blueprint for success
In sport and beyond, few concepts are as dispiriting as financial determinism: the notion that what is possible is determined by how much cash you have to start out with. This law is not perfect, but it holds pretty strong: in Soccernomics, authors show that there is a 90 per cent correlation between what a team spends on player salaries and what they achieve on the field.
All the more thrilling, then, when this law is violated, however fleetingly: hence the joy of L...