Certain points need to be made here. The Hundred has received far more promotion than T20 blast has ever received. The Hundred benefits from BBC coverage. The Hundred benefits from each franchise having far more money to buy players than counties like Glamorgan will ever have. So we are not talking of a level playing field here.

There was never any need for the Hundred. The ECB could have provided the promotion and funding to the counties for T20 instead. I’m sure the BBC could also have become involved especially as SKY only provide live coverage of a small percentage of the games.