17-01-2022, 18:42
I suspect his suggestion of the teams being twinned with Hundred franchises would mean the white ball subsidising the red ball, as currently happens in the county game, but with fewer teams and no player-overlap between formats allowing greater flexibility than the current set-up.
Of course, you'd have to pay the exact same amount to red-ball cricketers as white-ball, otherwise all the best and brightest would simply follow the money. And sooner or later, when they suss out that they're generating 99% of the club's income in front of packed stadiums but getting the same wages as blokes who generate 1% in front of five pensioners, a labrador and a tumbleweed, the white-ball lads will be on the phone to their union pronto. But hey ho, Aggers knows best.
Of course, you'd have to pay the exact same amount to red-ball cricketers as white-ball, otherwise all the best and brightest would simply follow the money. And sooner or later, when they suss out that they're generating 99% of the club's income in front of packed stadiums but getting the same wages as blokes who generate 1% in front of five pensioners, a labrador and a tumbleweed, the white-ball lads will be on the phone to their union pronto. But hey ho, Aggers knows best.
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