England’s white-ball success risks baking in a divide with future Test setup | Ali Martin
Finding a candidate to lead the red-ball side is no easy task, with Ben Stokes gone and Brendon McCullum still around As England’s men scatter
Finding a candidate to lead the red-ball side is no easy task, with Ben Stokes gone and Brendon McCullum still around As England’s men scatter for the Hundred, ready to pull on new colours, ingratiate themselves with their new paymasters and use the word “exciting” repeatedly, the management above them could be forgiven for letting out a sigh of relief.
Not that everything is shipshape going into their month-long recess. Far from it. Test cricket is king in this country, No 1 across all age
groups and demographics – as per Richard Gould, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, in his Ashes review in March – and
in that regard the first half of the season still goes down as a bit of a shambles. Continue reading...
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