DARREN STEVENS

THE managing director of The Hundred, Sanjay Patel, will leave his role at the end of this year’s competition. Patel was behind the creation of the controversial eight-team tournament, which held its first edition in 2021. He initially joined the ECB in 2015 as the governing body’s chief sales and marketing officer before being appointed managing director of the tournament in 2018. “I will miss this job and the people immensely but once we’ve completed the third season of The Hundred I believe the time will be right for me to look for a n...