The England and Wales Cricket Board has surprised many in the cricket world by proposing an eight-team men’s and women’s domestic competition of 100-balls-a-side that will begin in 2020.
Here, Press Association Sport collects the best Twitter reactions to the suggested new format.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) thinks cricket might already be too complicated for the casual observer.
Guardian writer Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) gave the ECB’s announcement a bit of a pasty-ing.
There is not quite enough novelty attached to the proposed competitions, according to Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) of Football365.
Cricket writer Tim Wigmore (@timwig) had more to say than most about the 100-balls-a-side format.
The Cricketer magazine editor Huw Turbervill (@huwzat) suspected the governing body were playing a belated April Fools’ Day joke on cricket fans.
A new format for the sake of a new format? Author Daniel Brettig (@danbrettig) thinks so.
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