The 2021 domestic schedule in England looked a fraught mess from the moment it was released, but it has only been in the last fortnight – with the commencement of the Tests and The Hundred alongside the Royal London Cup – when the scale of the problem has been fully understood.
As avid TCP readers, I don’t need to tell you why it isn’t ideal that Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali’s recall to the whites is off the back of work in 100-ball cricket. Nor does it require articulating how Jos Buttler and Sam Curran’s absence from the red-ball stuff since February and January respectively is a punt o...