Cricket: Several Australian cricketers were on show as the Lucknow Super Giants claimed victory in the their IPL clash against the Royal Challengers.
Aussies collide as Super Giants prevail | 01:16England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Richard Gould has dismissed suggestions the governing body wants to cut any of the 18 first-class counties adrift as a “totally mad conspiracy theory”.
But Gould, speaking at the ECB’s domestic season launch at The Oval on Tuesday, said there were no plans to reduce the number of first-class counties, which has stood at 18 since Durham joined the County Championship in 1992. “I’ve been in the game 20-odd years and that conversation has always been around, but we’re the one professional sport that hasn’t lost a club,” he said.
But former Surrey chief executive Gould said: “They are not comments that I would recognise or agree with.Gould said the ECB were open to private investment in the Hundred, the board’s eight-team, 100-balls-per-side competition.“We have got a lot of interesting sports owners from the States and from this country.”
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