Sorry, but who is benefitting from four-day game?

Progress halted: Lancashire’s Haseeb Hameed

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events
If – as frequently suggested – the point of four-day county cricket is to produce international players, then it really doesn’t matter that the whole thing has become a shambles unless it fails to produce Test players.
About this time last year we were rubbing our hands at the prospects for young batsmen coming through the county system and who would be pushing now for places on the Ashes to...