The governance of world cricket is a mess. It can scarcely be otherwise when the executives who are charged with running the game must bend their knee to administrators whose interests are confined by the narrow boundaries of the countries they represent, writes Mike Atherton.
WITH THE score at 112-3, and 500 so distant a target that only a draw was feasible, Yorkshire’s leg-spinner Adil Rashid was introduced to the attack. His first ball was a perfectly pitched leg-break which zipped into the pads of Middlesex’s left-handed Billy Godleman. It looked a devilishly close shout, but Rashid’s plaintive appeal (no doubt gleaned from Mushtaq Ahmed when the pair worked together at the start of the season) was turned down.