DEREK PRINGLE

Reign: Devon Malcolm is Derbyshire’s sole BAME product

The Covid pandemic has placed stress on all sport in Britain with cricket no exception. From the Test arena to the village club, the game is bracing itself to ‘hope for the best but prepare for the worst’ as administrators grapple with the new normal and what that might look like. Any crisis, especially one as uncertain and protracted as this, plays to those doom-mongers who believe county cricket, with its 18 first-class counties, is both too needy and too unwieldy.
Theirs is not a new refrain, ...