This must put people off and it's not like the ground is packed for every game.

As someone who works full time I've done the figures and a full membership is pointless so in the past I've gone for the T20 season pass. The only way I have any chance of getting to the games after work is driving. The reason I haven't renewed this year is simply the cost of parking - I can't justify it and when I'm rushing after work I'm not going to head over and just hope I can find space in a cheaper unofficial car park close to the ground.

I've just been looking at tickets for the legends tournament, would buy but there's no sign of parking details at the moment and I'm not buying a ticket to then find the price is in effect doubled because the car park costs as much as the ticket.

GerryShedd wrote:

LV= Insurance County Championship matches will be played regularly from the start of the season until the end of July. The Royal London Cup and The Hundred will follow before the Championship finishes in September.

That sounds like the ECB have ignored all the complaints about the lack of county cricket in August.

Wonder if The Cricketer are planning to expand their digital offering to try and challenge Cricinfo. There seems to be an increasing level of criticism that they are in the BCCI's pocket and therefore heavily biased in their coverage so there could well be a gap in the market for an alternative.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/royal-london-cup-again-set-to-run-alongside-the-hundred-in-2022-1280908

From what is being said despite all the complaints its basically more of the same next year.

The elephant in the room is of course The Hundred. You can run the County Championship, RLODC and Blast concurrently as these are, at least in theory, played by the same team so you can have a white ball game sandwiched between County Championship games. But as soon as you need to block several weeks out to allow those same players to go to their franchises you've got a problem.

It works in Australia and India because they have the weather to add extra weeks to the season. Nobody is looking at the coverage of the current game at Lords and seeing shots of the crowd thinking that looks like a good day out, they look frozen!

I was expecting the change this year to be honest. Noticed during the 2020 Blast the Birmingham part of the name was rarely used and most of the social media activity was on the Warwickshire accounts.

Sadly not the case but I'd definitely change it back moving forward now there is a Birmingham team in the Hundred, surely that's enough to keep the council happy.