BATTERS FACING A PITCH BATTLE?

Dan Whiting debates whether this week’s flurry of wickets brings the summer’s schedule into question

The County Championship reverted to 10.30am starts last weekend and a flurry of wickets around the country caused the domestic world to question our pitches that are prepared, along with the scheduling of red-ball cricket.
After the frenetic pace of The Hundred, followed by The Vitality Blast quarter-finals, batsmen across the country have struggled to adapt to red ball cricket played on September wickets as nearly a hundred wickets fell on the first day of the County Cham...

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