Cricket season extended into March, spin bowlers getting overs under their belt from the off, but most importantly the County Championship remains at 16 matches. Get those matches televised or streamed live and I can only think of it as a positive.
Alviro Patterson wrote:
Cricket season extended into March, spin bowlers getting overs under their belt from the off, but most importantly the County Championship remains at 16 matches. Get those matches televised or streamed live and I can only think of it as a positive.
Aidan11 wrote:Alviro Patterson wrote:
Cricket season extended into March, spin bowlers getting overs under their belt from the off, but most importantly the County Championship remains at 16 matches. Get those matches televised or streamed live and I can only think of it as a positive.
I'd rather they held the group stage of the 50 over tournament overseas then the 16 game CC will remain fully at home. The whole issue of the reduced CC is that spectators will have one less home game to go to. If they hold a couple of games overseas then we'd be in a similar situation.
Aidan11 wrote:This is interesting....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016 ... -counties/
Looks like the franchise T20 is on the back burner for now.
captaincolly wrote:Aidan11 wrote:This is interesting....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016 ... -counties/
Looks like the franchise T20 is on the back burner for now.
Good that the ECB are going to give the counties some much needed cash - no need at all for the ECB to have 70 million as a contingency fund.
Aidan11 wrote:captaincolly wrote:Aidan11 wrote:This is interesting....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016 ... -counties/
Looks like the franchise T20 is on the back burner for now.
Good that the ECB are going to give the counties some much needed cash - no need at all for the ECB to have 70 million as a contingency fund.
This is what annoys me. The ECB are sitting on a large pile of cash which is supposed to go back into cricket. I know some of the counties brought their financial troubles on themselves but some got into trouble trying to upgrade their grounds to meet ECB requirements for international cricket.
They can't have it both ways. T20 wont come to the rescue. Counties need help.
westoelad wrote:Conflicting article by Dobell on ESPN.
At a glance ECB expenditure
Turnover: £134m (£174.7m in 2014-15)
Reserves: £73.106m (£70.039m)
Community expenditure: £21m (£24.2 m)
Professional game expenditure: £48.4m (£63.8m)
England teams expenditure: £30.6m (£27.5m in 2014-15)
Support expenditure (governing body plus administration): £14.1m (£12.4m).
1st class grants cut from £64m to £48m according to him.
Reserves may be excessive but admin. expenses at £14.1m, up 15%, seems obscene.
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