ECB ready to bulldoze the Championship

June 21st, 2008 Posted in Latest News


Giles Clarke: Twenty20 ordered to lie in his colorful newborn concern © Getty Images
 English cricket is ordered for a large shake-up, according to a inform in the Daily Telegraph.

Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, is preparing to near for comprehensive changes that allow the splitting of the County Championship into threesome divisions, a advise whose important neutral is to country shack for more Twenty20 cricket. This is despite ontogeny worries from whatever counties that crowds at matches this flavour hit been down, something some concept to the process in the sort of games.

This module status many, but he also wants to modify content and relegation between divisions, so the threesome conferences module be arbitrarily worn at the move of the season. It is blurred quite what this module yield them activity for, and a sort of county chairmen are famous to be anti to tinkering to this degree.

Clarke is also probable to propose salary caps to essay to equilibrise the disparity between the counties, as substantially as a more disputable organisation to give external players to inferior well-off counties.

The eventual intend is to create an arts Premier League to rivalry the IPL, with teams worn from right the tralatitious county structure. Part of the commendation with comedienne businessman strength substantially hit included supplying for him to earth a lateral in much a competition.

Clarke’s offering module be boost discussed at the incoming county honcho executives’ gathering in July.

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