ECB sweats on Hundred catching fire but did it really have to be this way?

England’s answer to the Big Bash begins on Wednesday but doubling down on the county game was the braver optionFor three long years running up until the very first ball is bowled at 6.30pm on Wednesday, the organisers of the Hundred have been desperately trying to stamp out fires. The question now is whether the biggest change to English cricket in modern times catches alight.Over the next 32 days there is a new eight-team, seven-city tournament in town, backed by an unprecedented marketin