County cricketers believe in the principle that less is more and are happy to play fewer games overall to ensure that the country’s best players are involved in a domestic 50-over competition.
Those are among the key findings of extensive conversations between the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) and current players as part of the ECB’s high-performance review into men’s domestic cricket, which is being undertaken by Andrew Strauss in the wake of England’s run of one win in their last 17 Tests.
The PCA’s cricket department, led by chair James Harris and director of cricket operations and former chair Daryl Mitchell, agreed to six key principles and two compromises which they believe should underpin the review, after many conversations with PCA members.
The principles suggest that: