SPEAKING of market forces. Remember when national cricket boards didn’t do an awful lot more than making sure their Test team showed up at the right place in the correct uniform? The extent to which it is a different world in 2019 is typified by Cricket Australia, an organisation growing to the size of a government department with their tentacles found in every corner of the game from international stadium to the lowest level park battle on a Saturday afternoon.
Using that scope for good, administrators are currently in a process of finding ways to make cricket a less expensive sport ...
