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Yes The Hundred generated a lot of money, but English cricket shouldn't be for sale

GEORGE DOBELL: The sale of the Hundred teams, which has reportedly raised over £500 million to be reinvested into the county game, will have some benefits, but do they outweigh the detriments?

Harry Brook can make a success of the England captaincy - but faces an uphill task from the outset

GEORGE DOBELL: The Yorkshireman is a good fit for the role, but a relentless fixture list across formats means he will be swimming against the tide

MS Dhoni and the curious debate between commercial and performance value

OSCAR RESS: With CSK's head coach, Stephen Fleming, admitting this week that his veteran wicketkeeper "can't bat 10 overs," will Dhoni's dwindling value on the field lead to the end of his remarkable IPL career?

As dawn breaks, there may be trouble ahead

GEORGE DOBELL: Eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow, the Depend Adult Undergarment league takes over. As a new English summer begins, there are many reminders that its best days are in the past

"That's the way franchise cricket works" - the IPL and the absence of loyalty

OSCAR RESS: From Krunal Pandya to Quinton de Kock, the first week of the IPL has been defined by players thriving for their new teams, but how much longer will players and fans accept such a lack of continuity?

Shoaib Bashir: Can the loan system be relied upon to develop England's frontline spinner?

OSCAR RESS: Glamorgan will be the fifth team the off-spinner has appeared for in his last 16 first-class matches which is an unacceptable level of instability

Poor Jofra Archer… I'm glad Richard Hadlee was never used as cannon fodder

After the England seamer delivered the most expensive IPL figures of all time during Rajasthan Royals's crushing 44-run loss in the IPL, HUW TURBERVILL reminisces about some of the great contests between bat and ball

County chief's vision of Championship games in Ireland is misplaced, if well-meaning

DAVID SHARMAN argues Sean Jarvis would be better off focusing on ideas based in Leicester, rather than Leinster

Fortunate to escape with a slap on the wrist, the case of Grant Bradburn sends an important message

GEORGE DOBELL: The former Glamorgan, Pakistan and Scotland head coach was this week found to have made comments with racist and sexist "connotations" in 2024

It was inevitable, but Jon Lewis' departure only acknowledges one of England's problems

NICK FRIEND: It was announced on Friday that Lewis was no longer England Women's head coach, the result of a disastrous winter that began with a premature exit from the T20 World Cup and ended with an Ashes whitewash

Proposed World Test Championship reforms do little to uncomplicate matters

OSCAR RESS: According to The Daily Telegraph, plans to revamp the points system, including in-game bonus points and extra points for away wins are being discussed ahead of the new cycle

The system which would make counties work harder for their money

HUW TURBERVILL: Would the use of a grading system, based on similar criteria used in rugby league, to establish a hierarchy be a better way to keep counties on their toes?

Hold the celebrations for the 150th anniversary Test

NICK HOWSON: Australia face England in a day-night MCG Test in March 2027 to commemorate a century and a half of the longest format

Sabotage, sorrow and a silver lining: The Champions Trophy was a complicated tournament of many parts

SM HUSSAIN: India dictating logistics and bouts of wet weather meant the return of an ICC event to Pakistan was overshadowed by external factors, but was not a complete lost cause

Will Smeed stays true to his word at Somerset

NICK FRIEND: When Smeed moved onto a white-ball contract in 2023 to focus his energy on his far stronger format, he always insisted that the door to red-ball cricket remained open; two years on, he has taken the plunge