The Hundred could cause a wholesale reappraisal of a county cricketers’ lot, up and down the country – and the quality of four-day cricket could be the fall-guy.
That’s the view of two high profile county players who, speaking on condition of anonymity, tell The Cricket Paper that the success of The Hundred will spark a rash of players throwing their hat into the ring to play in the competition next summer.
It will also, they say, lead to more and more players, such as Adil Rashid and Alex Hales, prioritising white-ball cricket in the T20 Blast and The Hundred as they go in search of the m...