PETER HAYTER and Alison Mitchell both produced excellent pieces in a recent The Cricket Paper regarding the question of free-to-air television coverage of the new T20 competition.
Peter gave some startling statistics regarding what the majority of the national television audience have missed out on due to the lack of terrestrial coverage. I fear that eight live terrestrial games is not enough to catch the attention of a new audience.
The weakness of the new T20 competition is that it will leave large parts of the country without a side they can support, which could leave cricket as a sport ...