The panacea of English cricket, the new T20 competition scheduled to start in 2020, will be significantly advanced at the start of this week with the representatives of the counties meeting in London in advance of their Article 50 moment. At Lord’s they are poised to wave through a change in the constitution that will allow the England and Wales Cricket Board to create a tournament that does not include all the counties. Thus the way will be open for the promised T20 extravaganza.
There is no indication at this late stage that things will fail to go the way the ECB intends and so, in an echo of the wider world, the project ploughs on even though several of those voting in favour of it have grave reservations about its ultimate success.
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