Bedser mocks call from players for shorter day
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
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The Professional Cricketers’ Association, the representative body for England’s Test and county cricketers, has asked the ECB to reduce the number of hours and overs bowled each day in County Championship matches.
While players around England believe the provision of more time to relax and recuperate will lift standards in the game of cricket, Alec Bedser, the great former Surrey and England bowler, feels otherwise.
“Soon they will not want to play at all ... I don't understand how modern cricketers can improve by playing less. I have been putting these points for 30 years but have never had any answers. The administrators are too worried about what the players think.”
Read Bedser's scorn in The Times.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo