A radical shake-up of county cricket which would see the 18 first-class sides compete across all three formats to become the overall champion has reportedly been proposed.
Sir Andrew Strauss is leading a high-performance review of English domestic cricket in the wake of England 's humiliating 4-0 defeat to Australia in the Ashes. Speaking last month, Strauss outlined his plans for the review, saying: "I believe we're looking very strongly at being the best in the world in all formats.
"I think the knock-on effects, right the way through the game if the shop window is functioning well, are enormous, so as a game we need to get alignment behind that ambition. If you take a longer-term perspective on these things you have to say, 'How can the two teams run concurrently alongside each other?' and 'How do we best support our white- and red-ball specialists to allow that to happen?'
