RICHARD CLARKE
AKA The Grumbler

There are very few things in cricket upon which almost everyone agrees. Fence-sitting is out of fashion. Like seemingly every other issue in this country, we join a tribe and slavishly ascribe to all its views, including our sport’s greatest domestic dichotomies – two divisions or three conferences, eight Hundred franchises or 18 first-class counties, the ICEC report is a wake-up call or woke nonsense.
Yet there is almost universal support over one issue. Durham were harshly punished by the ECB after requiring a financial bailout in 2016...