BECAUSE... COUNTY CRICKET MATTERS
ANNIE CHAVE
In the ECB laboratory, the domestic game is laid bare, its schedule trailing across the table. Technicians in white coats busily fiddle with the formats, jigsaw pieces in hand. In a corner by the water-cooler, a group of men in suits tinker with the Dukes ball, juggling between it and the Kookaburra, bouncing them off a virtual pitch, no grass in sight.
Despite – not because of – these experiments, the 2024 County Championship has been full of highs and lows, of tales of bravery, bitter defeat, surprise results and the kind...
