The chairman of the English Cricket board Giles Clarke has admitted in an interview with Sports In Shorts that the English County Championship is ''as pointless as Deal or No Deal!''.
Jazzing Up
Speaking yesterday, Clarke said ''It's difficult to know what to do with our County Championship to make it more popular???, do we merge some teams together so there are less counties so therefore less matches?, do we make games last only 2 days instead of 4......I mean who in their right mind wants to sit through 4 days of that dross??....not me, that's who...... another idea we had was to jazz it up by 'glamming' teams up in fancy dress...so Derbyshire might play dressed as the YMCA boys against Glamorgan, who might be dressed as say.... the Spice Girls.....all these ideas are being considered at the moment. One things for sure, as it stands the County Championship is as pointless as Deal or No Deal!.....which makes me Noel Edmond's I guess'?!?!''.
Suffering
Cricket in England is also suffering from the money available in the Indian Premier League, which means that Counties are finding their best players are preferring to play in India at the start of the English season rather than their regular team. Clarke also has ideas of how to solve this problem. ''Ahhh the IPL..... now thats made our job in England difficult.....how can we compete?.......we could start the EPL perhaps?, or we could invade India again and make it...like...another England......like an England 2 if you like...just like the old days......except with better weather and crowded trains...... but the easiest thing to do is probably just scare our players into not going by saying terrorists will bomb them if they go!''.
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