2 https://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/espncinew.png https://www.cricinfo.com/ https://www.cricinfo.com/ Visit Cricinfo.com for up-to-the-minute cricket news, breaking cricket news, live cricket commentary, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket video, cricket audio and features. (c)Cricinfo en-gb The rise of Twenty20 and of India's power are challenging English cricket's ability to function independently http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/372895.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/372895.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT What sort of team composition does a successful county side need? http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370976.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/370976.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The rain has ravaged the season, but there are still chances of a good finish to the County Championship http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369021.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/369021.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The standards of player conduct have slipped in the county game, and umpires and captains are content to turn a blind eye http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/366373.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/366373.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/365765.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/365765.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The players, certainly; the fans, to an extent; but the media hardly do; and on the evidence of it, the selectors aren't considering performances on the circuit either http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/364841.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/364841.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT England are gravely short of depth, and the debate over qualification criteria is making the issue more vexed http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/362897.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/362897.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Why the new proposal for an English Premier League will benefit the big counties and grounds and leave the rest vulnerable http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361218.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361218.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT England's top six don't seem to be making the switch to the longer version quickly enough http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/359192.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/359192.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The drawing power of Twenty20 offers the ECB an opportunity to streamline the number of English domestic competitions http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355100.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/355100.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The ECB and the counties may be keen on a midsummer Twenty20 competition, but there's merit in having one that runs across the season instead http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/353339.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/353339.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Leicestershire's avowed strategy is to build a core group of senior overseas pros as mentors for young English talent http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/351731.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/351731.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The idea of foreign players in county cricket is not intrinsically bad, but surely there have to be limits to the influx http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/350183.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/350183.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT England's top six could do worse than get their heads down and churn out the hard yards rather than dream of IPL cash http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/347275.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/347275.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In the first instalment of his new fortnightly column on Cricinfo, Christopher Martin-Jenkins looks at how the ECB has to decide whether it wants to react to the IPL with a franchise-based Twenty20 league of its own http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/345585.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/345585.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT