ECB should not tap its feet for four years before embracing Jofra Archer | Barney Ronay

Apr 27, 2018

England are missing a trick by waiting until the gifted Sussex all-rounder is 27 and need to put a yorker through the rule book

Even with a week to sit on it there is no obvious easing of the dunder-headed inanity that surrounds the England and Wales Cricket Board’s proposed 100-ball competition. On wider reflection this isn’t just a bad idea. It’s more out-there than that, the kind of idea you might expect a precocious toddler to come up with, or some other species altogether: an ambitious sports-marketing chicken with a below average IQ, or a squirrel promoted by a series of unlikely events to a key management role in the national summer sport.

Perhaps the only real purpose it has at this stage is to demonstrate that nobody really understands cricket any more. Not the people who watch and play it, and certainly not those overseeing its aggressive dissolution into various constituent parts.

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