The Spin | The Hundred must avoid any more ‘outs’ or risk falling on stumps

With a cascade of PR missteps and the tournament launching in less than 100 days, authentic endorsements still seem in short supplyThe opening round of the County Championship may have been played out in temperatures akin to those endured by the final crew of HMS Terror, and returned just three wins from the nine games, but over four days it threw up plenty to savour.Glamorgan’s draw at Headingley struck a blow for those of us who are younger siblings when Billy Root brought up his hundred