‘THE Hundred’ must succeed next year even if it is at the expense of everything else in County Cricket. That seems to be the message from Colin Graves the outgoing chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Graves implied that the county game must make sacrifices if it is to have any chance of prospering in a post-Covid world, but that ‘The Hundred’ must not be one of them.
It seems the ECB needs a shiny, new, all singing, all dancing entertainment of convenient brevity, in other words ‘A Product,’ to sell t...