The Surfer

CLT20 highlights the excess of cricket

In the Guardian, Barney Ronay rips into the Champions League in the weekly Spin

In the Guardian, Barney Ronay rips into the Champions League in the weekly Spin His suggestions for a tagline for the tournament include: 'not as abysmal as you might have expected', 'not as abysmal as you might have expected' and 'a once-decent idea congealing before your eyes into a doomed curiosity'.
The CLT20 remains an unloved and unlovely thing, albeit a remarkable achievement in its own right as a cricket competition that manages to make even the cricket-obsessed, the cricket-compulsive, the cricket-crazed think to themselves, hmm, maybe there's just a bit too much cricket on at the moment.