County contrast with Premier League elite
Comparing the English football scene with its cricket counterparts, Michael Atherton writes in the Times that the most wealthy clubs in the LV County Championship have failed to prosper.
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
Comparing the English football scene with its cricket counterparts, Michael Atherton writes in the Times that the most wealthy clubs in the LV County Championship have failed to prosper.
Atherton looks at Leicestershire chairman Neil Davidson's paper of last year which suggested that county cricket was heading down the football route, where the only determining factor to success would be the health of a club's balance sheet, and picks out a glitch in the argument.
Look at the shambolic state of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Surrey and Warwickshire, all of whom are failing to exploit their power and the weakness of others. These are the counties with the most financial muscle, the greatest traditions and the biggest pools of talent to draw from, yet they are failing to deliver silverware and locally produced players in sufficient numbers, surely the twin aims of any self-respecting county.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo