The ECB, beset by a breakdown in discipline on the Ashes tour, are now facing open revolt by more than half their counties over botched plans to shake up domestic Twenty20 cricket.
Chairmen and chief executives from 10 of the 18 counties have written a collective letter to ECB chairman Colin Graves explaining their vehement opposition to the ECB’s plans for an eight-city competition due to start in 2020.
The counties, none of whom are likely to stage T20 matches in the new competition, have belatedly come to the conclusion the competition on which the ECB are staking so much threatens their future.