Franchise cricket now threatens the future

By Rich Edwards

Cricket has now reached a tipping point.
And after Jason Roy’s decision to place Major League Cricket over his England contract, the clock is ticking on the future of all forms of the international game.
That’s the view of a leading administrator, who has held senior positions in two of the world’s biggest cricket-playing nations.
And he believes the ICC has little appetite to intervene and create a window that could save Test, ODI, and international T20 cricket.
“I’ve been warning about this for years,” he tells The Cricket Paper. “The player drain has impacted world cri...

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