...and an even bigger redefinition of "honouring"!!
Almost every national board, it seems, is trying to pull the wool over people's eyes about this issue. The SA scenario is the future, it's just that CSA are a bit ahead of the curve. So those people--very, very much including players, who are already handsomely paid compared to their fellow citizens--can't have it both ways. Either they actively take part in this T20 takeover OR test cricket, first-class cricket and 50-over cricket survive beyond this decade. They can't have both--because the business model of the T20 franchises is essentially a cannibalistic one.
Of course people like Wood and Root have every right to earn even more than they're already earning--but they're destroying the structure of cricket as it existed from around the 1890s to about 2022 by doing so.
...and an even bigger redefinition of "honouring"!!
Almost every national board, it seems, is trying to pull the wool over people's eyes about this issue. The SA scenario is the future, it's just that CSA are a bit ahead of the curve. So those people--very, very much including players, who are already handsomely paid compared to their fellow citizens--can't have it both ways. Either they actively take part in this T20 takeover OR test cricket, first-class cricket and 50-over cricket survive beyond this decade. They can't have both--because the business model of the T20 franchises is essentially a cannibalistic one.
Of course people like Wood and Root have every right to earn even more than they're already earning--but they're destroying the structure of cricket as it existed from around the 1890s to about 2022 by doing so.