Durhamfootman wrote:I've said this before, but I'll say it again
Ignore the counties... they'll have their weekly match every Friday for the T20 cup.
Invent half a dozen franchise teams, all based in London, no affiliation to any county sides, all playing their matches at the Olympic stadium over a 3 week period, completely separate from county cricket.
Have no restrictions on overseas players
Make all England players available to participate for different teams
Allow county players to be selected for the franchises (no CC cricket over this period)
Have a firework display at every match
Jessie J, Kaiser Chiefs, Cold play, anyone who's popular, performing
Red Arrow fly by's
all singing
all dancing
every gimmick you can think of
Ravi *modded* Shastri and Danny Morrison
Bumble and the funny Kiwi fella
It would work and it wouldn't require any sort of amalgamation of county sides which would be a disaster anyway
finally common sense might actually prevail
it's the only thing that would work, and they should have done it immediately after the big bash was born, but then the ECB are a bit dim, I suppose.