Ben Gardner thinks there’s a place for the Kookaburra ball in the county game
Before this season, your position on the Kookaburra experiment likely mirrored your opinion of the County Championship.
If you viewed first-class cricket’s oldest competition as the ultimate prize, then the introduction of a different ball for two and later four rounds felt an affront, an impingement to competitive integrity.
If you felt that the County Championship should largely exist to serve the national set-up, with the latter financially propping up the former, then a few bore draws and disgruntled seamers w...
