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Does cricket need to be popular? The ECB and The Hundred

July 16, 2019

The rise of T20 franchise leagues, from Canada to mainland Europe, a T10 league in the Middle East and now The Hundred, are all vying for a slice of public attention and, therefore, money. Each needs...

Short-sighted ECB to blame for England’s woes

January 11, 2018

The fall out and recriminations following England’s surrender of the Ashes to Australia will continue for a while yet. Ashes battles are each nation’s barometer of the health of their domestic game a...

Football holds the key to cricket’s UK audience

January 9, 2015

A survey by the ECB, England cricket’s governing body, at the end of 2014 revealed that participation in the sport at a recreational level is low. Kids are not playing the game. Elite participants in...

Peter Moores – not good enough then, not good enough now

April 23, 2014

He was not good enough the first time around, so why will he be good enough the second time around? England’s disastrous winter took another bizarre twist with the backward looking step to appoint Pe...

Removal of Kevin Pietersen further highlights ECB ineptitude

February 6, 2014

Why has Kevin Pietersen been permanently discarded from the England team? Well, we are left to rumour about it, at least for the time being. His face didn’t fit, he was arrogant, he quarrelled with t...