BAT & BALL
Big T20 money threatens cricket as we know it
A traditional game is being played at an institutional venue while up north a new future beckons
18 August 2022 - 05:00
When Proteas skipper Dean Elgar led his team out at Lord’s in the first cricket Test against England on Wednesday, the sport’s hallowed ground was shifting beneath his feet.
A couple of hundred kilometres and a few hours away there was a pointed reminder of how the game is changing. Tristan Stubbs, a fellow South African and, unlike Elgar, a T20 player, was turning out for the Manchester Originals in The Hundred, English cricket’s latest new-fangled white-ball competition...
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