A manifesto for reform of English cricket
July 16th, 2009
filed in Sports on Jul.16, 2009A view of the 100,000-plus capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground – but is Australian domestic cricket any stronger than the county system in England? Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty ImagesIn my column today I referred to William Buckland’s book, Pommies, an excoriating dissection of English cricket which Buckland compares unfavourably to the lean structure which has brought Australian cricket so much success in recent years.Buckland’s book is worth reading by anybody int
