Can’t get enough
Having spent last Tuesday evening taking in the sunshine and the cricket at Grace Road, I spent a very pleasant Sunday afternoon at Trent Bridge enjoying the Twenty20 game between Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. Sadly Notts managed to chuck away a decent first innings total through some pretty rubbish bowling which was savaged by Yorkshire opener Ian Harvey.

Despite the early surge in the run rate, Notts did well to drag the match out to the last over, and could even have sneaked it at the end. Nonetheless, a record Trent Bridge crowd had an enjoyable day in the sun, watching an enthralling cricket match.

Now in its third season, Twenty20 is truly proving to be a wonderfully invigorating experience, which no doubt breaths life into the finances of the cash strapped counties. Undoubtedly helped by the glorious summer sunshine a crowd of over 8000 at a domestic match can only be good for the game – bringing cash into the counties, and perhaps more importantly firing the interest and imagination of kids across the country.

As I've said before, with all this interest, and what promises to be an enthralling Ashes series this summer ahead of us, it's such a shame that the ECB have chosen to take Sky's money and sell out the future of the game, metaphorically trampling their own wicket into the ground in the process.
- posted by Paul @ 12:14 pm