Genuinely criminal this bloke gets to travel the world opining on cricket

Lots of preparation has done Abbott and Hazelwood lots of good... Not

A not insignificant part of me wishes they had called it a day after series 3, but then Marlo wouldn't have existed, so I guess it's win some lose some

Burnham handled this so poorly last time it beggared belief but it needs doing in some form. Manchester is choked by cars.

Yeah, and players were paid appallingly and treated dreadfully! It wasn't some sort of idyllic existence.

I just think that denies the reality that professional sport is a business. It literally can't be any other way if we want the players to be paid, male and female.

Quite a few of their CC team don't though. Openers and foakes off the top of my head.

I think you're very much on the nostalgia side, if that's not too presumptuous. Most non cricket fans would be baffled about the state of things in county cricket. That shouldn't be a badge of honour. That's not to say the ECB are blameless, far from it.

Might it be that if no players are saying the PCA position is wrong, it's because it is in fact broadly correct and representative? Not really a surprise that the entire squad of the 3x county champions want to play more red ball is it?!

But with all due respect, you have not spoken to as many players as the PCA have.

We don't see this the same way, which is fine, but there is too much nostalgia around county cricket. The world has changed,its time for CC to change with it and they are dragging their feet.

If you don't think a professional cricket club should be a business then your problem is with capitalism not the ECB. Obviously they have to be businesses.

The ECB have presented the counties with numerous proposals over the years, all of which the counties have thrown out for various reasons. You let them off the hook too easily.

Exactly this. The idea the PCA doesn't represent what most players think is, I think, not accurate.

Genuinely, what do counties who don't want a change to 4 day cricket expect and want from the ECB? Because I suspect that most would trot out the tired out "scrap the 100 and invest in the Blast" trope, which in my view disqualifies them from being taken seriously.

It is genuinely embarrassing how detached from financial reality the county game is.