DEREK PRINGLE

One board believes that its fortunes in white-ball cricket lie with embedding players in the Indian Premier league, the other that the risk of burnout outweighs any short-term benefits and replaces them with longerterm risks to the national cause. But which one is right?
The first way, which you may now recognise, is the stance taken by Andrew Strauss, ECB’s director of England cricket. The second being the one now proposed by Cricket Australia.
Strauss was brought in to oversee and improve the national teams overall but with an extra emphasis on improving the men&rsq...