Tim Wigmore believes T20 ‘window’ needs to be minimised to allow other formats to flourish throughout the year

Passage to India: England’s IPL select (clockwise from top left): Billings, Woakes, Buttler, Roy, Jordan, Curran, Wood, Moeen, Plunkett, Hales, Stokes and Willey
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PLANET CRICKET

Never has the start of an English domestic season been so defined by who is not playing, rather than who is. The Indian Premier League has taken 12 England-qualified players away from the county game – a record.
There is a whiff of mutiny in the shires, ...