Lawrence Booth, editor of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, has called The Hundred an “almighty punt” and has questioned whether England needs a fourth format.
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Writing in his editor’s notes in the 2019 edition of the cricketer’s bible, which was released today, Booth has criticised the ECB’s bid to “stake cricket’s wellbeing on a form of the game played nowhere else in the world.”
“If only someone at the ECB had been on hand last year to explain why they thought it a good idea to stake cricket’s wellbeing on a form of the game played nowhere else in the world. It’s true that this approach worked in 2003, when Twenty20’s arrival met with scepticism. Yet these grand schemes come off once a generation. And the public have to be convinced over time, not drip-fed careless soundbites.”
