Make the Championship one division

Posted by poch1991@jourrapide.com on September 17th, 2019

I think players in the second division are largely unselectable for Test cricket because the standard simply isn't good enough. County members can shout at me all they like, but we see the evidence when they get picked for England.

Inevitably, any good player will go and play for a first division club, because they know they won't get picked in the second division, and that then creates a further imbalance.

If we are looking to go forward, and we have these new, centralised teams, it may be that we have to build a structure around that.

Maybe we do have 12 teams, which are really, very carefully geographically located. You have one division, everyone plays each other and you have fewer, better, players.

That would be something I would really strongly consider doing - but it'll never happen!

It means that when there are good overseas players signed - for example, when Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne came to play for Worcestershire and Hampshire - only half our players play against them.

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