Luke knows too much cricket isn't Wright

The Champions League, it seems, has caused quite a stir. The success of sides such as Trinidad & Tobago, New South Wales and the Cape Cobras outdid what the two English counties, Somerset and Sussex, achieved in the tournament. One likely reason, as is being muttered in hushed tones across England, is the amount of cricket those two counties played. As Lawrence Booth writes on the Wisden Cricketer website, the men who run English cricket need to address the problem soon.

The thoughts of the engaging Wright, whose career is still at the make-or-break stage, should be cut and pasted into an email to the England and Wales Cricket Board. “From the county cricket point of view, it is hard and you don’t get the time to prepare as, say, people in Australia do, to work up to a game,” he said. “You go from a four-day game and travel at night to a one-day game, and you try to differentiate between the formats. You find yourself practising the skills in the games themselves rather than having it nailed down ready to play. You almost use some of the games as practice.”