hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
While historically warm-up matches were fun and perhaps necessary for amateur players who'd just spent 6 weeks on a boat, they are becoming near unique to cricket in the modern sporting world.
With cricket boards across the globe in financial strife, it's hard to understand the massive demand for 3-4 day matches that must be expensive in terms of pitch preparation, umpiring and ground fees yet bring in no direct revenue, solely under the name of warming up for test matches.
Is it too much to ask for professional sports people to come on tour prepared?
With cricket boards across the globe in financial strife, it's hard to understand the massive demand for 3-4 day matches that must be expensive in terms of pitch preparation, umpiring and ground fees yet bring in no direct revenue, solely under the name of warming up for test matches.
Is it too much to ask for professional sports people to come on tour prepared?