Hundred schedule impact worth the price – ECB chairImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Manchester Super Giants and Trent Rockets were the winners of the men’s and women’s Hundred competitions in 2026ByMatthew HenryBBC Sport journalistPublished11 minutes agoScheduling issues caused by The Hundred are a “price worth paying”, says England and Wales Cricket Board chair Richard Thompson.The introduction of The Hundred in 2021 squeezed the domestic and international calendar in England, with just two days between the Hundred final and the first Test against Pakistan this summer.While the ECB has ceded some control to new owners and investors and the addition of future teams remains a possibility, Thompson reiterated the stance that the number of days The Hundred is played across will not grow and reported the current positives outweigh the negatives.”Sacrifices have got to be made,” he told Sky Sports.”If we can take all of the debt out of the game, which we have, make a generation [of counties] which can reinvent themselves, that is a price worth paying.”What has been the impact of new owners on The Hundred?
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Published16 August
