Hundred gets the ball rolling with sparkly draft for new-born franchises | Barney Ronay

ECB’s competition takes first steps in engaging piece of contrived TV theatre as eight franchises hand out contracts

Roll up. Roll up for the mystery tour. On a night of fevered transactional tension at the Sky TV studio complex English cricket rolled out its latest vision of the future. “We’re on the clock and we’re under way,” Ian Ward announced into the camera just before 7pm, firing the starter’s pistol on the inaugural men’s Hundred Draft.

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