The Spin | Gap between county cricket’s haves and have-nots is growing dangerous

Before the first delivery of the English season, Worcestershire are not alone in contemplating a worryingly uncertain fateWhile a once showpiece competition reduced to a developmental sideshow played out to its usual sparse midweek audience at a ramshackle New Road ground so unfit for purpose that Worcestershire’s first two County Championship fixtures of 2024 have been relocated, Ashley Giles took stock of English cricket’s troubling state.“I don’t think there has ever b