Why the P20 may be about as welcome as a P45
As the ECB tries to shake up the sagging sales of Twenty20 tickets in the country, the next year's P20 remains as ill thought-out as a reverse-sweep off Joel Garner, writes Lawrence Booth in his column Spin , for the Guardian
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
As the ECB tries to shake up the sagging sales of Twenty20 tickets in the country, the next year's P20 remains as ill thought-out as a reverse-sweep off Joel Garner, writes Lawrence Booth in his column Spin, for the Guardian. There is an underlying sense that English cricket has hurriedly said yes to what it imagines will be another money-spinning tournament without actually working out how to spin the money.
The upshot is a tournament that smacks of overkill and has little hope of competing with the IPL as the world's leading Twenty20 competition. And, if the below-par crowds at the start of this year's Twenty20 Cup are anything to go by, the P20 risks diluting the impact of both tournaments.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo