Former captain Kevin Pietersen believes a first-class competitors based mostly on the Hundred might assist the English Test group “return to its former glory”.
Pietersen, who received the Ashes in 2005, 2009, 2010–11 and 2013, mentioned the present County Championship had misplaced its luster and that he was “not fit to serve the Test team” in its present type.
I’m so sorry for Joe Root. He is captaining the type of the sport that Strauss & Co. ruined in 2015!
Test cricket ought to be the head however Strauss/Morgan are heroes by some means..?
Like I preserve saying, the system is damaged and so are the journalists who’re defaming Joe!— kevin peterson🦏 (@KP24) December 31, 2021
“With no money elsewhere in the game, the (county) championship in its current form is not fit to serve a Test team,” Pietersen wrote in a weblog submit on Betway.
“The finest gamers do not need to play in it, so younger English gamers are usually not studying from different greats like me. Average bowlers are getting batsmen out on dangerous wickets and all the pieces is tousled. The 41-year-old heaped reward on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for the skilled franchise-based 100-ball cricket event – The Hundred.
“At The Hundred, the ECB has actually created a contest with some kind of worth. It is the perfect in opposition to the perfect, is marketed correctly, and engages with audiences.
“He got new people into the game and I can tell you that the players would have improved a lot to play alongside other greats. It’s such a valuable experience.” Advised to return, including that English gamers would profit from shoulder to shoulder with high international gamers.
“They now must introduce an identical franchise competitors to red-ball cricket, taking part in the perfect in opposition to the perfect each single week.
“They will present the cash to draw among the finest abroad gamers on the earth and high English gamers will profit from taking part in with them.
“It will be a marketable, exciting competition that will raise the standard and bring people back through the gates of cricket for a long time.” He proposed an eight-team round-robin league the place pitches encourage robust batting approach.
“The pitches are monitored by the ECB in order that we aren’t seeing circumstances favorable to the main bowlers like now.
“We should have good pitches that reward and encourage strong batting techniques, bat long hours, and that requires skill from the bowlers to take wickets.” Pietersen mentioned the county system can function a “feeder system” the place gamers are developed till they’re able to make the transfer.
“I can promise you that lots of the finest kids within the present England group and system nonetheless see Test cricket, particularly Ashes cricket, as the head.
“But the perfect gamers on the earth are concerned in IPL, PSL, Big Bash, The Hundred and so on. So it’s not a good suggestion to present them an opportunity to make their tens of millions now, as I used to be again within the day.
“We need to create engaging, high-quality, interesting competitions that reward and improve the best players. This can be one,” he wrote.
England are at the moment down 0-3 within the Ashes.
“There isn’t any level in blaming Joe Root for what occurred in Australia. He is the one class batsman in that group and has been tasked with main an under-prepared, low-quality group within the Ashes sequence. It was a irritating process.
“Things are usually not going to alter by taking the following batsman out of county cricket and sticking it to open the batting. It has failed many occasions even now.
“This franchise competition will be a great opportunity to improve the standard of red-ball cricket, to make domestic cricket interesting to the masses again and the only way for the ECB to show that they value Test cricket and get paid.” We worth the shopper.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
