Did moving behind Sky’s paywall 20 years ago save or stifle Test cricket?
The decision to leave free-to-air TV has become English cricket’s Brexit. But what could have been done differently?By Wisden Cricket MonthlyAs Rudi Koertzen and Billy Bowden removed the bails at The Oval and celebrations began across the country after a grandstand finish to an epochal Ashes, it signalled not only the end of England’s 18-year wait to claim back the urn, but the last rites of live Test match cricket on terrestrial TV in the UK.In December 2004 the ECB had announced a
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