That isn't to say that I don't have problem with The Hundred but my only real qualm is the bizarre decision to introduce
another format of the game. Every single objective that the ECB set out to achieve (including the most important of getting the ruddy game back on free to air television) could have equally have been achieved with a T20 franchise competition (which to my understanding is what the BBC thought they were getting). Indeed I imagine, once they've finished their, utterly justified, gloating that
@Pakenhamtrain would be able to confirm that the Big Bash ticks the various boxes the ECB were looking for including the biggies of being appealing to families and being available widely on free to air TV. Everything else about The Hundred? Brilliant. Crack on because my god the game needs to stop being hidden behind the Sky paywall.