DEREK PRINGLE

As the England and Wales Cricket Board strive to attract a new audience and inject some vigour into the game with a new franchise-based T20, they ought to consider revamping the County Championship, with specific regard to the number of draws that occur.
Take last season’s Championship which Middlesex won, albeit in thrilling circumstances in the last session of the season. They drew ten of their 16 matches and, although they remained unbeaten, it was hardly the swag of deserving champions. Indeed, Hampshire, who would have been relegated but for Durha...